I am ALL Ken M on this blessed day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctkKcVLIYuo

Maybe you didn't see the link, but the PDF of the original paper is linked by the page in the post: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/639.pdf

The paper that you found is also interesting and references the 2022 paper.

We are ALL Ken M on this blessed day!

I'm not sure this shows any progress other than the invention of colour photography.

You think that when the Pope leads a prayer in front of a crowd of catholic worshippers that this constitutes the kind of "public praying" that is worthy of criticism? King Charles is the head of the Anglican church, so it's no different. They are leading a prayer together.

I'm not religious so I don't care either way, but to classify this as "disgusting" is to completely lack understanding of the context.

of course there are valid use cases (like summarizing text and video content, the latter even helping with accessibility)

only if you don't care about accuracy or completely made up transcription that just didn't happen.

Reading the article, I don't think they're trying to imply what is suggested by the headline, ie. that the real-name registration system is being abused somehow to scam people.

Rather it's an article pointing out that the real-name registration system did not help to combat the already rising number of scams, which was the reason that the government gave for passing the law.

It doesn't seem to be phone-specific either:

Hong Kong has seen a sharp increase in overall scam-related crime figures in recent years. Between 2020 and 2024, the number of scams reported to police almost tripled.

It's a useful data point to argue against any similar initiatives in other countries, where they may use the same reasoning to justify the law. It doesn't seem to make a difference, as criminals will always find a way regardless of the hoops that you make law-abiding citizens jump through.

Utility is born of necessity, and it's true that every joke needs a punchline.

Good morning, Paul

But god forbid you unplug a controller while the console is switched on. Better know how to replace that fuse on the controller board!

(If you just bridge it with a wire, I won't tell anyone).

Because some banks now require you to authenticate every payment (eg. online payments using your debit card) and every new recipient for bank transfers, using their phone app. The apps rely on the chain of trust that Google and Apple provide with their TPM or "secure enclave" chips to cryptographically authenticate that it is indeed the same device that the bank previously authorized.

Online banking via the website of these banks will still require at least one tap on the phone app to authorize any transfers that you make on the website.

Linux phones (and custom Android ROMs) don't benefit from this same chain of trust, and so even if they have the secure chip in the hardware, the banking apps don't have a convenient API to query it, so the banking apps just don't work.

Banking fraud causes a serious amount of money lost to criminals each year so it's not surprising that the banks want better ways of determining if a request is really coming from their customer('s device) and not a criminal who phished their online banking password.

This situation won't change unless either Linux phones gain in popularity enough that the banks decide to port their apps to the platform or a law is passed saying that banks must support more than just Google and Apple (ie. custom roms etc.) at which point the work will be done to use the hardware attestation available in the phone on other software platforms.