Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Within a matter of minutes of being posted, the realistic-looking image spread on Twitter and other social media networks after being retweeted by some popular accounts. Online misinformation has existed since the dawn of the internet, and crudely photoshopped images fooled people long before generative AI became mainstream.

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The Verge

AUGUST 29, 2020

I moved to LA mid-pandemic and furnished my apartment almost exclusively from Facebook Marketplace, a luxurious garden of budget goods that exploits all my weak points: deals, online shopping, haggling with strangers on the internet. One of the first things I bought was a table and four chairs that was not cheap, by my standards ($225!),

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

And while there are ways to get them taken down, it’s time-consuming to chase down every fake to get it removed, and demoralizing to see ripoffs continue to proliferate across the internet. Even people who should be experts in copyright matters can struggle to contend with takedown policies. Photo: Matt Buchholz. Image: Matt Buchholz.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Mara Hvistendahl of MIT Technology Review recently interviewed Samantha Hoffman of the Australian Strategy Policy Institute, one of the leading experts on the Chinese surveillance state. The internet is awash in dual- factor authentication protocols to confirm your identity before you can check your bank balance or pay your insurance premium.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 8, 2019

It also provides a handy browser plugin to fill in credentials for me, once I’ve authenticated to the plugin. Multi-factor authentication (MFA). Now, on to our second point for today: multi-factor authentication (MFA). Now, on to our second point for today: multi-factor authentication (MFA). Where to use MFA.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 12, 2020

I argue that this is the kind of thing the internet is best at. Our online relationships with ecommerce companies, social media providers, banks, and others are cold and impersonal, but also relatively efficient. Policies expire. Supporting Authentic Relationships. In that sense, the web has kept it's promise.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Locke argued that "sovereign and independent" was man’s natural state and that we gave up freedom, our sovereignty, in exchange for something else, protection, sociality, and commerce, among others. I argued that the architecture of SSI, its structure, made those relationships more authentic. More succinctly we ask: who controls what?

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. Oh, how times have changed. and Vietnam.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Facebook Reality Labs head Andrew Bosworth on evolving for a new medium In 17 years, Facebook has gone from a college social network to a potential gatekeeper for the world’s newest computing platforms: augmented and virtual reality. Last year, it launched its own virtual social network called Horizon in beta.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. How times have changed. Who attacked: no attacker.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The CEO and founder, whose website aims to reproduce “the authentic essence” of your loved one, told ABC that his ultimate hope is to eliminate grief as an emotion. Now, technology and cybersecurity experts are advocating for policies such as the addition of a “Do not bot me” clause in the estate-planning process.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

computing servers in the University of Utah’s College of Social and Behavioral Science (CSBS) experienced a criminal ransomware attack, which rendered its servers temporarily inaccessible. This was done as a proactive and preventive step to ensure information was not released on the internet.". It was determined that approximately.02%

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Phil Windley

MARCH 13, 2020

This makes it ideal for use in credential verification where the clients may not have internet access for a period of time, a key requirement for universal adoption of digital credentials. These policies are only transitional until the Sovrin Foundation is able to provide Public Write Access. DIDs resolve to DID Documents.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Back then, the internet consisted of static web pages, dial-up web connections, and email. was a paradigm shift in how the internet is used. It’s interactive, social, and user-generated. We use social sites like Facebook (a middleman) to keep in touch with friends. It all started with Web 1.0 back in the early 90s.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 22, 2023

How does he authenticate? So the explanation the back, the question of authentication is a really important one. And so we can use that as a tie to the idea of biometrics as a way of authenticating a human being to a computer. And, even those withing Microsoft, who agreed and wanted the policy to change. SHOSTACK: Yeah.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s hard to come up with a good idea for a viral social media post. And I’ll allow that the Facebook pages of Texas-based daytime talk shows typically do not observe the zero-tolerance policy on plagiarism that journalists do. Facebook’s report details the top 20 most widely viewed posts on the network over the past three months.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

MARCH 10, 2008

This means a document-level security policy is effective if the user is on-line or off-line, can be active for a specified period of time, and can be used to control certain activities (user cannot print or forward document, etc.). Active Directory for authentication 3. Free How Does the Internet See You? Enterprise 2.0

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In response to this increasing plague upon the internet, there’s a public/private partnership that has created a task force designed to disrupt the ransom payments, thereby disincentivizing the attacks. Vamosi: There's some great people working academia today such as Alex Stamos who runs the Stanford internet observatory.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In response to this increasing plague upon the internet, there’s a public/private partnership that has created a task force designed to disrupt the ransom payments, thereby disincentivizing the attacks. Vamosi: There's some great people working academia today such as Alex Stamos who runs the Stanford internet observatory.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2023

However, with the internet’s vast GIF library, you’re spoilt for choice. From recording videos and snapping pictures to embellishing your creations with stickers and posting them directly on social media platforms, its offerings are comprehensive. In mere moments, watch as your face is artfully grafted onto the GIF.

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Vox

APRIL 26, 2022

“The idea of allowing more speech sounds like a very positive thing,” said Renee DiResta, a researcher at the Stanford Internet Observatory. Musk has talked a lot about the virtues of free speech, but he has no experience managing that on a social media platform where hundreds of millions of tweets are posted a day.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 23, 2021

March 31, 2021: Amazon updates remote work guidance, plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’ June 10, 2021: Amazon adjusts return-to-office guidance, says employees can work two days a week remotely October 11, 2021 : Amazon will leave remote work decisions to individual team leaders in new policy twist.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

You can’t wipe all your info off the internet — but you can make it less available There are two key concepts in information security : threat model and attack surface. When it comes to the internet, it’s nearly impossible to collapse your attack surface to zero — you’ll never achieve that without going into witness protection.

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Vox

JUNE 16, 2022

The conversation provides the most detail yet about Musk’s plans to change the social media company. On Thursday morning, Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time in a Q&A session about how he’ll run the social media company. And we’re gonna get a little bit deeper on free speech and policy a little bit later.

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Vox

JUNE 16, 2022

The conversation provides the most detail yet about Musk’s plans to change the social media company. On Thursday morning, Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time in a Q&A session about how he’ll run the social media company. And we’re gonna get a little bit deeper on free speech and policy a little bit later.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Today, let’s talk about some of the less obvious ways that conservative social networks keep slipping up — and whether Truth Social, which has the backing of President Trump, can manage to avoid their fate. First, the news: Truth Social is live in the App Store, and hit No. What else is there to say about Truth Social?

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Vox

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Elon Musk isn’t like other tech billionaires, even if he now owns a major social media company. Image matters for all public figures, but perhaps no other billionaire has been as adept at using the internet to shape their public image, and then leveraging that to improve the financial performance of their businesses.

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Vox

DECEMBER 15, 2022

They say Twitter’s policies here were already known and that the specific decisions in question — blocking a story they feared stemmed from a foreign hack, banning the account of President Trump after he incited an insurrection, and deboosting accounts spreading public health misinformation — generally seem at least defensible.

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