Running Naked through the Internet category archive
“Air Tag, You’re It!” Silent Stalkers Dept. 0
Bruce Schneier reports:
He goes on to opine that Apple doesn’t seem to have thought this whole Air Tag through.
Follow the link for more.
The Great Roll-Back 0
The Las Vegas Sun editorial board considers a speech at a recent right-wing gathering and concludes:
Follow the link for their reasoning.
“Whatever You Say May Be Used against You . . . .” 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t and the internet is a public place.
And no one’s watching the watchers, not even the persons paid to watch the watchers.
The Answer Is “No” 0
The question is, “Can you keep it secret?”
Frances Coleman points out that, at least as regards “social” media, your privacy is indeed in jeopardy.
The Disinformation Superhighway,
It’s All about the Algorithm Dept.
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David Neiwert explains. A snippet:
Follow the link for the full story.
The Courage of Their Conniptions 0
January 6 Capitol rioters are deleting their “social” media posts.
And it’s not working. Here’s a bit from the AP report.
Posts made on Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms are recoverable for a certain period of time, and authorities routinely ask those companies to preserve the records until they get court orders to view the posts, said Adam Scott Wandt, a public policy professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who trains law enforcement on cyber-based investigations.
Authorities also have other avenues for investigating whether someone has tried to delete evidence.
Afterthought:
Note the use of the phrase, “delete evidence.”
No Place To Hide, the Clock is TikToking Dept. 0
Bruce Schneier reports that TikTok has changed its terms of service to include a provision that it may now collect biometric data.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
It’s All about the Algorithm, Down the Rabid Hole Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Sebastian Ocklenburg explores how “fear of missing out,” often referred to as FOMO, sucks people into “social” media and keeps them there. A nugget:
On the one hand, it could be assumed that people with high FOMO check the social media feeds of their friends and family to not miss out on what happens in their lives.
On the other hand, the association could also go the other way around. If someone constantly checks the social media feeds of other people, they may develop FOMO because they see other people doing all these awesome things all the time. That these pictures often look better than the actual experience was is often ignored.
The Danger Is Not Remote
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From time to time, I have heard Bob Cesca suggest on his podcast, when discussing some particularly egregious “social” media mischief, that “we are not ready for the internet.”
Now comes psychologist Glenn Geher to say much the same thing, using the slightly more scholarly term of “evolutionary mismatch.” Here’s a bit from his article (emphasis added):
Our minds did not evolved for large-scale remote communication. In fact, when people communicate with others who have their identities partly or fully concealed, as is so often the case with remote communication, a very general pattern emerges: People behave badly.
Methinks he has a point.
The Internet of (Untrustworthy) Things 0
The Internet of Things 0
“Smart home” (meaning one where every gadget has a network connection) is an oxymoron.
I can push my coffee maker’s “on” button all by my ownsome, thank you very much.
Via Bruce Schneier.