Collaborate Disseminate
It has become normal to talk about political “tribes” these days, instead of mere parties or policies. The implication is a deeper feeling of affiliation, one that approaches family and is very hard to break. Your entire identity is wrapped up in the t… Continue reading Tackling Online Tribalism | Avast
Computer viruses and malware have been around for many years. Malware creators of the late-’80s and the ‘90s were tech-savvy people trying to prove their skills, have a little fun, and test their limits.
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As someone who has survived two very different dictatorships, hearing Americans and Europeans debate free speech always feels a little quaint. They argue about subtleties of law and meaning that are irrelevant to the half of the world’s population stil… Continue reading The Free Speech Triangle | Avast
It’s one of the biggest clichés of today: data is the new oil. But then, clichés are clichés because they are true.
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Plato once sagely observed, “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
That advice resonates today, even as we deepen our reliance on number crunching — in the form of the unceasing machine learning algorithms whirring away in the bac… Continue reading Instilling Values In Machine Learning | Avast
How did we get to this level of disinformation? How did we, the citizens of the United States of America, become so intensely divided?
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When The Economist asked me to contribute an article on how technology can help save democracy, I jumped at the chance. Tech and politics have been my twin passions for most of my life, although I was rarely able to indulge them since they were relegat… Continue reading Upgrading Software Of Democracy | Avast
Put simply, most people believe that the weakest link in the security supply chain is the user. This attitude has become so widely accepted that it’s almost set in stone. It is justified by the inherent unpredictability of humans; the knowledge that a … Continue reading Weakest Link In Security | Avast
The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favor… Continue reading IoT Attacks Intensified By Covid-19 | Avast
It is well known that Great Britain and the United States were the first countries to use mass media technologies for propaganda purposes, literally teaching Germany and the Soviet Union how to use the new technology to that end. As citizens, we know t… Continue reading Post-Modern Computational Propaganda | Avast