Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance

Hmm, maybe a better system would be to have a local tool you download that generates the hash and then sends that to Facebook.

There is no reason this has to be done in the cloud. At all.
 
The technical arguments against this, i.e. the hashing thing, are all stupid. You think they wouldn't have thought of that? Even my local Mac can identify photo's that are similar and produce a confidence value.

The idea is stupid though, really stupid. I ditched facebook 2 years ago, but a big part of whyis that they OWN the photos you upload, and they reserve the right to use them however they wish. You give them that permission when you sign up for an account. Why anyone would think Facebook are somehow trustworthy is beyond me. Yeah, you won't trust your most recent squeeze, but you'll trust some faceless corporation that employs hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of anonymous people who don't know you and don't care. I'm sure there are some morons out there that will do it though. One born every minute....
 
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So, a potential offender only needs to crop the photo, change something like blur/resharpen and the hash becomes stale.
 
between this and the lava lamp encryption cloudfare, i thought it was april fools day
 
In related news, Amazon announced that their in-house delivery program is partnering with Google to prevent revenge porn. The Amazon deliveryman will take nude snaps of anyone in the house (on an approved, company, Google Pixel 2), upload them to the Google server, and lock the door on the way out.
 
The only people that get to see my junk are my doctor and my wife. Old man zuckerberg can keep his creepy voyeur fetish to himself.

Mind you, uploading nudes of myself is less revenge on me as it is revenge on the people viewing it.
 
I have a better idea, send them to me and I will ensure they get taken down. Same thing facebook is saying but you can trust me! Honest!
 
Goodlookinguy said:
And with all due respect I'm a senior programmer of 17 years. According to the article they're not using anything particularly fancy to detect images. They're just hashing them.

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It says nothing about them running it through 100s of filters. Now, I'm not going to say they aren't, but so far you've no evidence that I'm wrong in this regard.
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They are not going to tell you how the hash is generated, better folks think they can get away with it, I shouldn’t have said anything. Ignorree meeeee.
 
Dead Parrot said:
The lengths that Facebook will go to in order to obtain still more profitable information about its users is truly astounding. Even if FB manages to properly secure the images, how long before folks that upload images start receiving ads for bluetooth sex toys, all controllable with the handy Facebook ap?"
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Well, I mean you already have dozens if not hundreds of photos of yourself on there. Any information about your physical appearance has long been "hashed" for deep marketing concerns. I dont think showing the remaining 20% of your unseen body is going to improve what they already know about how you look. No way in hell would I actually submit nudes to get hashed, but it's not a terrible idea. Maybe if they could just make the hashing occur locally via a plugin or something.
 
Spidey329 said:
Hmm, maybe a better system would be to have a local tool you download that generates the hash and then sends that to Facebook.

There is no reason this has to be done in the cloud. At all.
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Was about to say the same.
And people should be more wary of cloud based storage than Facebook themselves.
We have no idea who has access rights. Hard to be worse than Facebook but it is!
There is so much wrong with this.
 
Facebook be like: “You can trust me with your nude photos; I’m a major corporation who sells your private information for advertising profit, started by a man who stole the idea from someone else”. Uhhh, yeah, thanks Zuck.
 
I wonder how well this will turn out...

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This is a project for Facebook's new "Extortion-Works" division.
 
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When something is so stupid that it underflows and becomes max value pure genius.
 
Spidey329 said:
Hmm, maybe a better system would be to have a local tool you download that generates the hash and then sends that to Facebook.
There is no reason this has to be done in the cloud. At all.
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There are disadvantages to the local tool. It gives people the means to test if alterations to the image change the hash, to begin with. That creates a short-circuit you don't really want. And if you put some sort of prevention into that tool, it'll just be hacked. And then there's the possibility of reverse engineering the tool once it's local.

I'm not any kind of fan of 'cloud' things, really. But if you go with this idea, cloud may be better. I would however say that facebook storing the originals is unacceptable. They should have to guarantee that they delete the submissions permanently after generating a hash.
 
Oh yeah, this will go well...

I think ol' Zuck is just lookin' for some new nudie pics.
 
nysmo said:
Well, I mean you already have dozens if not hundreds of photos of yourself on there. Any information about your physical appearance has long been "hashed" for deep marketing concerns. I dont think showing the remaining 20% of your unseen body is going to improve what they already know about how you look. No way in hell would I actually submit nudes to get hashed, but it's not a terrible idea. Maybe if they could just make the hashing occur locally via a plugin or something.
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So true. I mean I get ads for increasing the pleasure of my wife that I don't have and taking equity out of the home I don't own along with offers for frequent flyer miles I'll never use.

Point is, don't trust these people with anything personal. Although half the population is too stupid to take that advice. So yeah, don't bitch when that college "wardrobe malfunction" kicks you out of the running for your dream job. You did it to yourself.
 
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