On 11/12/14 13:58, Kate Black wrote: > The prime minister of the UK just said that Mozilla is considering > implementing built-in Internet filters in Firefox.
I really struggle to understand how this is a "game-changer" since the UK already operates an ISP-level non-optional blacklist called Cleanfeed [1]. On 11/12/14 19:14, Majken Connor wrote: > I would also definitely like to hear the context behind these > statements. I can attempt to give some context from the perspective of a Brit. For a while now the (mostly Conservative) coalition government has been implementing (or trying to implement) wave after wave of "won't somebody think of the children" style laws or restrictions or whatever, almost the entirety of which fail on a purely technical level, but many of which fail as they seem to be more about shaming (or shaming the depiction of) the perfectly legal activities which consenting adults get up to in private, rather than solving the huge child abuse problem this country has. On 11/12/14 22:43, Jonas Sicking wrote: > For what it's worth, we know that the "invalid SSL cert" warning is > triggered by attackers trying to hack people's network traffic. Attackers which could also be the British Government (or GCHQ) trying to perform a man in the middle attack. I wouldn't just blindly accept invalid certs if I were you. > Rather than guessing what mozilla may or may not do based on the > comments of someone that is not part of the mozilla community, it'd be > better to try to get some facts. Yes, you really shouldn't trust anything which comes out of the British government when it comes to technology or the Internet, or what various people are doing. They really don't have a clue. ~Leo [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse_image_content_list
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