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Nameless and shameless
"As Shaheen Shariff, professor of integrated studies at McGill University explains, the protection of a pseudonym allows people to easily throw out insults…
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The Latest Victim of Uber's Disruption May Be Itself
"In Rosenblat and Calo’s view, government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission need to more actively step up and investigate possible abuses by peer-…
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WikiLeaks Will Help Tech Companies Fix Security Flaws, Assange Says
"While WikiLeaks has often been criticized for releasing sensitive data without regard for the consequences, Mr. Assange is acting responsibly this time, s…
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WikiLeaks Publishes Files It Says Are Biggest Leak of Secret CIA Documents
"Tuesday’s document dump mirrors the one WikiLeaks carried out when it exposed cyber toolkits used by the National Security Agency, and frankly, is not tha…
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The Feds Would Rather Drop a Child Porn Case Than Give Up a Tor Exploit
"In United States v. Jay Michaud the indictment will be dismissed without prejudice, meaning that the DoJ can pick the case up again within the statute of…
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Tool Without a Handle: "Trustworthy Tools" - Part 2
In my previous blog on propaganda, I noted that private information, when stolen and put in a public context, can prove useful for propaganda efforts. This pos…
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Twitter to police abuse in major shift
""Twitter has been proceeding carefully and thoughtfully in thinking through and rolling out tools designed to help harassment victims," said Uni…
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Our Bots, Ourselves
"According to university law professors Woodrow Hartzog and Danielle Citron, “It is the first such complaint by the FTC that involved bots designed to acti…
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Checks and balances: an uncertain future for the intelligence sector
"According to Richard Forno, a professor at UMBC and the director of UMBC’s graduate cybersecurity program, “Politics should never interfere with intellige…
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Is Posting on Facebook a Fundamental Right?
"“That’s of importance to anyone who uses the internet and digital products and services,” says Neil Richards, a Washington University law professor who sp…
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The Startup That’s in Charge of the Biggest Private Satellite Fleet
"The higher resolution will likely raise privacy and security concerns, however, just as Google’s Street View did in its early days. Making public precise…
Opinion: The tech behind Bitcoin could reinvent cybersecurity
Given the recent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure around the world such as the Christmas 2016 power outage in Ukraine, which left more than 200,000 peopl…