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Facebook To Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the catch-me-if-you-can dept.

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: Facebook is testing new technology that is designed to help victims of revenge porn acts. It works on a database of file hashes, a cryptographic signature computed for each file. Facebook says that once an abuser tries to upload an image marked as "revenge porn" in its database, its system will block the upload process. This will work for images shared on the main Facebook service, but also for images shared privately via Messenger, Facebook's IM app. The weird thing is that in order to build a database of "revenge porn" file hashes, Facebook will rely on potential victims uploading a copy of the nude photo in advance. This process involves the victim sending a copy of the nude photo to his own account, via Facebook Messenger. This implies uploading a copy of the nude photo on Facebook Messenger, the very same act the victim is trying to prevent. The victim can then report the photo to Facebook, which will create a hash of the image that the social network will use to block further uploads of the same photo.

12 of 370 comments (clear)

  1. This is already avaliable by pnutjam · · Score: 5, Funny

    I already have a service that handles this, just send me the pic and I'll handle it....

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    1. Re:This is already avaliable by Major_Disorder · · Score: 4, Funny

      I already have a service that handles this, just send me the pic and I'll handle it....

      I would take you up on this offer. But I would not want to be responsible your your blindness.

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    2. Re:This is already avaliable by computational+super · · Score: 4, Funny

      I swear I'm only storing the hash code. Honest.

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    3. Re:This is already avaliable by computational+super · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, I thought it was really just that easy until I realized that the reason nobody had ever taken a naked picture of me was because I was ugly.

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    4. Re:This is already avaliable by religionofpeas · · Score: 5, Funny

      "We've noticed your hash is kinda small. Would you be interested in some hash-enlargement pills ?"

    5. Re:This is already avaliable by Lab+Rat+Jason · · Score: 4, Funny

      Right? There's NO WAY this could ever go wrong. Nobody from Facebook will ever see them. Nobody will ever hack facebook and steal them, facebook will never sell them to plastic surgeons under a marketing plan for people that need a little "nip" here and there. </sarcasm>

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    6. Re:This is already avaliable by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, I thought it was really just that easy until I realized that the reason nobody had ever taken a naked picture of me was because I was ugly.

      Don't feel so down on yourself. I've taken plenty of naked pictures of you.

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    7. Re:This is already avaliable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      This reminds me of that website where you could enter you credit card number to check if it was leaked to the internet....

    8. Re:This is already avaliable by computational+super · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dad?

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    9. Re:This is already avaliable by AdamStarks · · Score: 4, Funny

      A different breed of revenge porn, eh? Where the subject is not the victim?

    10. Re:This is already avaliable by boudie2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      My wife was afraid of the dark. Then she saw me naked. Now she's afraid of the light.
      Rodney Dangerfield

  2. Why not a Porn version of Wikipedia? by Hylandr · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's wrong with putting all the nudes of every person on facebook on a database ?

    What could go Equifax?

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