UK cyber vigilantes generating mock IDs of local MPs to protest Online Safety Act

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• underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rather than In addition to this, they should leak all the websites that MPs are visiting.

  If it’s anything like the United States, we’re sure to find some embarrassing search histories (at the very least).

  No privacy for me. No privacy for you.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Neil Parish MP: I’m resigning after porn moment of madness

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    • MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well he did it love in the commons not surprised he’s going

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d love to hear some informed commentary on the legality of this, if it’s legal, it’s surely an oversight in the law.

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  • zonnewin@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of course it’s not legal. This is called identity theft.

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Using the ID, sure. But what about providing the service?

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Given that many online services currently asking for ID have a proven track record of massive data leaks I’d argue that demanding people upload photos of their ID is complicity in identity theft too.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s identity fraud, and also an offence under the Misuse of Computers Act, gaining access to a system unauthorisedly.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “My OpenAI credits got hugged to death, please use a known postcode (like one from Keir Starmer’s constituency, WC2B6NH) in the meantime,” the author asks.

  While the OSA is dumb, this is also bad design, and why applications are going to use so much power.

  Cache the image creation results. Use a random address generator. This would drop the LLM use to the bare minimum.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s…exactly what they are doing and telling you to use a known post code so you hit the cache…

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re using ChatGPT for fake address generation if it even needs a cache for that part. There are plenty of libraries to do that locally. They should only need to cache generated images, which is the only thing a model would be useful for here.

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• Auth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah this is not worth the risk. Identity fraud of a politicians can be a serious crime. The pay off for this is a minor inconvenience for some desk worker and a few slop articles written about you.

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  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It can be used by AI age verification tools on a bunch of websites. So yes I guess that is fraud. But these tools claim not to store the data in the verification process. If somebody could prove a made up ID was used then I suspect they’re in bigger shit for a GDPR leak.

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    • aurelar@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a case of mutually assured destruction: to charge someone with impersonation, they would have to admit that they saved data that was supposed to be only for age verification and then deleted.

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