From 7426c13b5ba5cbfc65f33aeb46b31ba7df93153f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: surveillanceeconomy Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 08:00:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ?????? Some lines are not clear. I just leave {{expand}} and {FIX ME} sections to Jeff --- article.txt | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/article.txt b/article.txt index 406c17d0f..62e3cf743 100644 --- a/article.txt +++ b/article.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Audience: General, people who stumble upon gnu.org 1028+/-395 words instead? 755 words rahisibhasha stab at french -Version: 2019-05-19 +Version: 2019-05-29 ######################################### @@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ Prerequisites: Cloudflare is a network service for turing tests its users use against visitors, which means that it frustrates attempts by users of its users to develop software to interact with their websites[3]. This might seem strange at first - why would you need a program to access a web resource? -But there's many things that work on the web like this, including RSS, podcasts, and anti-virus definitions[57][58] which +But there's many things that work on the web like this, including RSS, streaming, chat, podcasts, and anti-virus definitions[57][58] which are completely broken by a CAPTCHA appearing mid stream[11]. "We humans don't make HTTP requests, our machines to do it for us." -This makes clear what is really being tested here - whether or not you have the *right* software stack in between you and +This makes clear what is really being tested here - whether or not you have the right software stack in between you and Cloudflare. This is not hypothetical: Cloudflare is currently attempting to dictate which browsers users of their "protected" @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ websites may use[60]. Your right to use Free Software in this stack is at risk and could disappear at any moment. -It also is extracting free labour from website users[35], in effect tricking humans into acting like robots in order to -pass a test designed to see whether or not they are a robot. Worse, this labour is being used to train Google's AI, a very +It also is extracting free labor from website users[35], in effect tricking humans into acting like robots in order to +pass a test designed to see whether or not they are a robot. Worse, this labor is being used to train[62] Google's artificial intelligence, a very poor candidate for "friendly AI"[36]. Given unfriendly AI is an existential[43] risk[42] to mankind, avoiding this should be among the highest of priorities. @@ -56,17 +56,17 @@ This software stack includes human language: the CAPTCHAs are in English, leavin at a disadvantage[13]. Attempts to fix this are bound by the fact that they also leak language information to Cloudflare[21]. -Furthermore, they use Google's reCaptcha for their Turing test/CAPTCHA and Google is part of PRISM so they expose PRISM -data collection to users of their websites. +Furthermore, they use Google's reCaptcha for their turing test/"proof you are a human" challenge and Google is known as a part of NSA's PRISM surveillance project so they expose their website visitor's data to PRISM data collection. -On its own, this is terrible bad but it's also worth pointing out how the reCAPTCHAs work; it isn't by whether or not you -click on the correct icon (though that is a factor too) but also +On its own, this is terrible bad but it's also worth pointing out how the reCAPTCHAs work. It isn't by whether or not you +click on the correct icon (though that is a factor too) but also collect: > mouse movement, its slightness and straightness > page scrolls > time intervals between browser events > keystrokes > click location history tied to user fingerprint +> device information > All these criteria are stored in the browser’s cookie and are processed by Google’s servers > It should be emphasized that there is DARPA technology to identify people by mouse movements and typing ​ [23] @@ -326,3 +326,4 @@ References [59] Thorin-Oakenpants. let's talk about our little buddy cloudflare. https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/issues/310#issuecomment-351913412 [60] ghost. What do you think about Cloudflare? https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/374#issuecomment-460413259 [61] Unspam Technologies, Inc. https://projecthoneypot.org/ +[62] TechRader. Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it https://www.techradar.com/news/captcha-if-you-can-how-youve-been-training-ai-for-years-without-realising-it \ No newline at end of file