Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 22:28:18 +0000
At WIRED25 the internet infrastructure chief talks about doing the hard calculus of pulling support from controversial sites—and why that’ll happen again.
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Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000
It’s much harder than it should be to get your name off of data broker and people-search sites, but it’s possible.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:59:17 +0000
Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant now all give you ways to opt out of human transcription of your voice snippets. Do it.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Keybase exists to keep things safe online. And it doesn’t use 2FA to do it.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:08:17 +0000
Flock Safety boasts that its cameras caused a dramatic drop in crime in one Georgia county, but experts say it’s not so simple.
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Credit to Author: Zeynep Tufekci| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:00 +0000
Both. Yes, authoritarians have co-opted tech. But the story is far from over.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Fried onion meets 1984.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:32:07 +0000
Twitter funneled two-factor authentication phone numbers into their ad targeting platform—but they weren’t the only ones.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000
The road to routing all Domain Name System lookups through HTTPS is pocked with disagreements over just how much it will help.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:40:50 +0000
Attorney general William Barr seems eager to reignite the encryption wars, starting with the social media giant.
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