Collaborate Disseminate
This Verge article isn’t great, but we are certainly moving into a future where audio and video will be easy to fake, and easier to fake undetectably. This is going to make propaganda easier, with all of the ill effects we’ve already seen turned up to eleven. I don’t have a good solution for this…. Continue reading The Future of Faking Audio and Video
Vice Motherboard has an interesting article about governments using social-media platforms for propaganda and surveillance, and the companies that are supporting this…. Continue reading Government Propaganda on Social Media
On today’s Internet, too much power is concentrated in too few hands. In the early days of the Internet, individuals were empowered. Now governments and corporations hold the balance of power. If we are to leave a better Internet for the next generations, governments need to rebalance Internet power more towards the individual. This means several things. First, less surveillance…. Continue reading Cybersecurity Issues for the Next Administration
The terror group’s forays in social tech may prove to be a high-risk, high-cost experiment. Continue reading ISIS’s Mobile App Developers Are in Crisis Mode