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ENF matching shows how easy it is to leak information via unexpected side-channels. But despite its intellectual attraction, it might not actually be very important very often. Recordings don’t always contain the right kind of electrical noise. Perhaps they weren’t taken near enough to a source of mains hum, or perhaps the recording device didn’t pick up the right frequencies. In my testing I’ve been able to reliably extract and match the ENF from other people’s example recordings, but not yet from my own. Even if a recording does contain the hum, it needs to be at least 10 minutes long in order to be date-able, and even then the matching process remains prone to false positives.
How to Date a Recording Using Background Electrical Noise
Robert Heaton
With very few exceptions, URLs should be idempotent: *the same path should always take a user to the same resource*.
The UX of URLs
shalvah.me
But my point is: nobody is debating these arguments now, because they don’t have to. Proponents of censorship have decided it’s easier to conflate censorship and moderation, and then argue for moderation. The solution is to de-conflate these two things - preferably by offering moderation too cheap to meter. Then censorship proponents can argue for why we still need censorship even above and beyond this, and everyone can listen to the arguments and decide whether or not they’re worth it.
Moderation Is Different From Censorship
astralcodexten.substack.com
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