Keynote: "Open as in:"
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Argument: source code access alone no longer guarantees transparency because modern systems learn from data and behave as machine-learning black boxes. Cited examples include a paper trying to identify masked protesters and another claiming facial scans can predict sexual orientation, plus Apple’s face ID 1-in-a-million claim. Notes that critical internet infrastructure is volunteer-maintained and that failures like Heartbleed and Equifax-era bugs show security and usability push users toward centralized, surveilling platforms, calling for human-interpretable, usable alternatives.
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