Yes, every vote counts. But will your vote be properly counted next week? Or will hackers mess with our election (again?)? Also, voting seems so simple; Bush or Gore, yes or no…why is it so hard to get this right? These are essential questions, central questions at the heart of [Keep reading]
Today, we’ll begin with Step 1: Long before you step into the voting both, your vote can be hacked. It’s already happened. I’ve written about state-sponsored trolling before, and I think it might be the greatest threat to democracy, and maybe even intelligence itself. Here’s a partial transcript from this part [Keep reading]
Twitter alerted an undetermined number of users on Thursday that it had inadvertently — but temporarily — revealed their location data, even though they had directly requested that such information be deleted. I know because I was one of those users. I received the above notice as a pop-up at [Keep reading]
You’ve been hacked, and now you have a mess to clean up. Maybe an imposter rampaged through your bank accounts, so you have to make dozens of calls. Maybe you have to play email tag with huge firms like Facebook or Google to reclaim your accounts. You probably have to [Keep reading]
First off, yes, Facebook has been hacked, and no, we don’t yet know how bad that hack is. Second, your Facebook account probably has NOT been hacked, and you probably don’t have a clone out there, despite all the messages and posts saying otherwise. Finally, it is actually possible (though [Keep reading]
If you think nobody ever *really* tries to hack Wi-Fi, there’s now a remarkable demonstration that you are wrong. On Thursday, the Dutch government accused Russian GRU (military intelligence) agents of parking outside a government building with a rental car full of high-powered wireless hacking equipment — hidden in the [Keep reading]
Might as well plan for a coffee break at around 2:15 tomorrow – at least folks in the Eastern Time zone. The rest of America, plan accordingly for a grand interruption. A nationwide test of something that will be now known as a “Presidential Alert” is planned to begin at [Keep reading]
Facebook has been hacked, and at least 50 million accounts have been impacted, the firm announced today in a blog post titled “Security Update.” As a result, 90 millions users were logged out of their accounts and forced to sign in again, the firm said. Criminals were able to “steal” [Keep reading]
What should computer science students — all college students — learn about the intersection of ethics and technology? @ethicaltechorg, founded by two Duke university students, (I’m an adviser) is crowd sourcing the curriculum for Tech Ethics 101. Thoughts here, or at the link: https://ethical-tech.org/request-for-collaboration/ Algorithms run our lives today. They [Keep reading]
Those of us who care about privacy issues spend a lot of time conjuring up stories about potential future disasters in an effort to focus attention on today’s dry policy decisions. If we don’t act now, one day, ordering ice cream will raise your health insurance rates; listening to this [Keep reading]
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