Collaborate Disseminate
A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians. Continue reading Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.
From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document": Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including data that is encrypted, for law enforcement and competent authorities to access digital evidence, when it is removed or hosted on IT servers located abroad or encrypted, without imposing any particular technology… Continue reading G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors
The videos on Facebook and Instagram show sections of the raw Christchurch attack footage, and variations continue to thwart Facebook’s moderators and technology. Continue reading 36 Days After Christchurch, Terrorist Attack Videos Are Still on Facebook
It took 29 minutes for a Facebook user to first report the livestream of the Christchurch terrorist. Now a machine learning system spots weapons in the stream with an over 90 percent confidence rating. Continue reading Machine Learning Identifies Weapons in the Christchurch Attack Video. We Know, We Tried It
Someone has taken a copy of the shooter’s Word document and weaponised it to download malicious code from the internet.
Continue reading New Zealand shooter’s manifesto used to spread disk-wiping malware
Google saw an issue with moderating the Christchurch terrorist’s so-called manifesto in part because of its length, telling moderators to mark potential copies or sections as “Terrorist Content” if they were unsure. Continue reading Internal Google Email Says Moderating Christchurch Manifesto ‘Particularly Challenging’
On Friday, at least 49 people were killed in terror attacks in New Zealand. Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees show how difficult it is for social media companies to moderate live footage. Continue reading Documents Show How Facebook Moderates Terrorism on Livestreams
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A database hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and owned by Dow Jones has accidentally been exposed putting approx. 2.4 million corporate entities and individuals at risk of data theft. Reportedly, the exposed database comprises sensitive info… Continue reading Dow Jones’ high-risk screening watchlist data exposed online
After years of claiming that the Terrorist Screening Database is kept secret within the government, we have now learned that the DHS shares it "with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities…." Critics say that the watchlist is wildly overbroad and mismanaged, and that large numbers of people wrongly included on the list suffer routine difficulties and indignities… Continue reading Can Everybody Read the US Terrorist Watch List?
Notice this bit from an article on the arrest of Christopher Hasson: It was only after Hasson’s arrest last Friday at his workplace that the chilling plans prosecutors assert he was crafting became apparent, detected by an internal Coast Guard program that watches for any "insider threat." The program identified suspicious computer activity tied to Hasson, prompting the agency’s investigative… Continue reading "Insider Threat" Detection Software