The 9pm Chickens of Cyber Necromancy with Justin Warren

Justin Warren smiles as he summons the spirits of dead computers at a conference. (Photo: Supplied)

It’s the final episode of the spring series, finally. And with all the weird digital policy action in Australia in recent weeks, I figured we’d better chat once more with Justin Warren, “consultant, freedom of information tragic, hexagon enthusiast, and creator of the CyberRating™ labelling scheme“.

In this episode we talk about Australia’s newly-legislated social media ban for under-16s, sure. But we also talk about something called “systems intentionality”, product safety, the new AI tool from MyHeritage that turns old photos into videos, and wine decanters,

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  • CyberRating™ pioneer, OopsRisk™ evangelist, hexagon and FOI enthusiast, cheese noticer, digital rights advocate. Probably not a vampire. He/him.
  • My name is Justin Warren, and I live in Melbourne, Australia. Eigenmagic is my personal blog. Mostly it’s about technology and management, with a smattering of other topics thrown in for good measure. I write about whatever I think people might be interested in. I tend towards long form prose because I often don’t have time to make things shorter.
  • This is where you buy your “Danger: Hexagons” warning signs and the like.
  • We specialise in marketing strategy, positioning, and messaging for technology companies, particularly startups. As a boutique firm, we offer custom consulting tailored to individual client needs, as well as a range of standard packages.
  • Turn your favorite photos into amazing video clips with AI, and bring memories to life like never before.
  • Turn your photos into amazing video clips and relive your favorite memories! Try LiveMemory™ now on the MyHeritage mobile app!
  • [27 November 2024] LiveMemory's AI videos aren't always as good as actual memory.
  • [23 November 2024] Carly Morgan @FamilyTreeNotebooks.
  • "Baby's on Fire" is the third track on English musician Brian Eno's 1974 debut solo album "Here Come the Warm Jets" — Wikipedia
  • [23 November 2024] Here are some examples of the new AI photo animation tool from MyHertiage, which released yesterday. It's called LiveMemory.
  • Necromancy (/?n?kr?mænsi/) is the practice of magic involving communication with the dead by summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions for the purpose of divination.
  • [29 November 2024] Australian lawmakers on Thursday approved a landmark ban on social media for children under 16, in some of the world’s toughest such controls. The ban aims to address the impact of social media use on children’s physical and mental health, affecting social media platforms including X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Reddit, but not YouTube. NBC News' Liz Kreutz has the details.
  • Inquiry into the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 [Provisions], including representative samples of individual contributions and campaign letters.
  • [29 November 2024] The biggest story, or at least the one that’s scored all the global attention, is of course the rushed passing of the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill.
  • Sir Arnold and Sir Humphrey discuss logic.
  • Helen Lewis and Armando Iannucci host a world-beating programme that gives you a cast-iron guarantee to be laser-focused on how politicians use language
  • (idiomatic) An old and overly conservative person.
  • [21 November 2024] Radically secure digital identity infrastructure is up and running in Europe right now. But not here, in Australia.
  • A decanter is a vessel that is used to hold the decantation of a liquid (such as wine) which may contain sediment.
  • A criticality accident is an accidental uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction. It is sometimes referred to as a critical excursion, critical power excursion, divergent chain reaction, or simply critical. Any such event involves the unintended accumulation or arrangement of a critical mass of fissile material, for example enriched uranium or plutonium.
  • A few years ago, I encountered my most interesting and memorable curbside consultation and I thought that I should bring it to the attention of my infectious disease colleagues who may or may not have been aware of either its name or its practice.
  • The law often includes state of mind elements as conditions for defendant liability for serious criminal and civil misconduct. As ongoing law reform inquiries in England and Wales, and Australia, demonstrate, this poses considerable challenges for the just and effective regulation of corporate actors. In that context, this article advocates for a new model of corporate responsibility, called "systems intentionality". This departs from the Identification Theory and other, individualistic attribution approaches by conceptualising the corporate state of mind as manifested in its systems, policies and practices. The article illustrates the model’s distinctive application to a range of topical scenarios.
  • On Thursday 23 May 2024, the Corporate Law and Financial Regulation program of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law hosted a seminar exploring a new model of corporate responsibility entitled ‘Systems Intentionality,’ which offers a principled and practical way forward, for corporate governance, regulation and liability purposes. The seminar - delivered by Professor Elise Bant (UWA) - explored the model in relation to a range of topical case studies, including the recent Victorian Royal Commission into the Casino Operator and Licence, in which the model was adopted and applied to striking effect.
  • Our team – humans and ferrets – have vast experience of working on construction sites and farms, threading cables and draw ropes, as well as locating blockages in underground drains. We can use our ferrets to thread cables underground, through pipes and conduits, behind false ceilings, through wall cavities and in many other situations.
  • [26 November 2024] Australia’s first standalone Cybersecurity Bill has passed into law, introducing a mandatory ransomware reporting regime and protections for businesses that cooperate with authorities in the aftermath of a cyber-attack. The Cyber Security Bill, which also introduces mandatory security standards for Internet of Things devices, passed the Senate after a short debate on Monday with bipartisan support.
  • [11 October 2024] Robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers.
  • [28 November 2024] The Australian Government has proposed legislation to retrospectively guarantee that evidence collected by the AN0M crimephone sting operation is admissible in court.

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