This is one good story however it is presented with a narrative that seeds unquestionable support for warrantless surveillance.
702 is on the horizon, what will we choose? Privacy or security. There is no such thing as both. In this well painted narrative the answer is simple. Security. What about other narratives though?
They only looked at requests sent to YouTube? Doesn't YouTube use https by default?
Did they do a simple YouTube search for 'Tom and Jerry' note down the full URLs for first two pages of search results... and look for those in the ISP logs?
DNS lookups only show "www.youtube.com" but not the VideoID or full URL I presume. So ISPs must be logging all URLs being visited by all their users?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/indias-draconian-rules...
> A police officer said that they searched for Tom and Jerry cartoons on YouTube and showed three or four of them to the child, who identified one particular cartoon. The URL of this cartoon was sent to the Cyber Cell.
edit: Indeed, they even admit this is not what they used to track them down.
The argument is our course: is public safety more important than data privacy?
Nobody AFAICT is honestly running those numbers. Probably because it would require cross-agency number gathering and the end result is potentially that agencies lose some magic powers.
Sometimes it'll be a single font that gives a person away, even when so many other bits of information are essentially the same.
It works pretty much exactly like how Akinator The Mind Reading Genie works. You narrow down by various yes and no answers, and get to the right answer, or a very close subset, surprisingly quickly.
Edit: Just remembered the episodes "Ticker Tape" and "Hack Attack", which are of a similar theme.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kerala/kerala-kidnap...
Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger.
Basically, children's entertainment = animation = Tom and Jerry, more often than not. Urban 1%er parents tend to default to Peppa Pig.
Almost every toddler I have seen has an old broken phone as their own video player.
Being so black and white about sticking a video in front of a kid to make sure it sits in one place and eats is dismissive of parents who have to make these decisions in real time.
Do we know those kids don’t get play time with friends? Or down time to get bored and hence be forced to invent games in their own heads? We only see and opine on “bad” behaviour, not the what happens behind closed doors the remaining 23 hrs of the day when the kid is out of our line of sight.
Animaniacs and Invader Zim at the top of the list.
Suggestions? SpongeBob is surprisingly subversive and anticapitalist to boot...
It is possible that Google is not allowed to operate in India unless they transmit all the keys to the government somehow. If they are forced to share the private key used for Youtube's certificates, that would allow effective MITM, or entirely passive surveillance if a non-ephemeral key suite is used. Google could also be required to send them every ephemeral key.
In any case, it doesn’t matter a whit if the average is one meltdown if your kid has gone without two consecutive meals. All this theorising goes out the window when the third meal is coming up and you’re struggling to get a morsel inside your kid. How many consecutive meals are you willing to let your kid skip on principle?
Comparing what we did in the past, how we lived in the past, what worked two decades ago is basically useless.
Phones exist. On demand entertainment exists. Kids know it. You know it. You aren’t putting any genie back in the bottle by trying to explain to your kid that since you grew up without being amused into eating, they need to do that too.
Does that seem like a bad habit to impose on your kids + you not engaging with them? It does to me. Am I gonna call (the equivalent to) child services? No. Do I make other probably equally bad choices for my kids? Quite likely.
No need to get defensive.
I've never used phones with my kids. They throw plenty of tantrums at meals. Sometimes they don't eat. They are alive and fine.
And this is critical.
I've seen enough times when kid did expected to receive what they wanted and threw a tantrum if not.