Hacker Economics: As the ratio of Supply to Demand
increases, prices fall.
Danny Palmer reports:
Dark Web marketplaces are selling remote access to desktop PCs for as little as $3, allowing criminals to spy on firms without resorting to malware.
[…]
One of the most popular underground stores selling access is ‘Ultimate Anonymity Services’. Founded in early 2016, UAS offers over 35,000 RDP credentials for sale in a variety of countries and for a variety of Windows operating systems, from Windows XP to Windows 10.
Read more on ZDNet.
Do I really need Facebook at work?
Facebook's
enterprise chat tool, Workplace, is exploding in popularity
Facebook has quietly become a sizeable force in
the competitive enterprise software market currently dominated by
incumbents like Microsoft and newer upstarts like Slack.
The social network's communication tool for
businesses, Workplace is now used by more than 30,000 organizations
after one year, up from 14,000 in April. Facebook also announced on
Thursday a desktop chat app for Workplace and plans to add support
for group video calling "in the coming weeks."
… Workplace is now used in 79 languages and by
people on every continent.
… Workplace functions like a private version
of Facebook, with familiar features like groups, live video, and more
business-focused tools like integrations with Salesforce and Google's
suite of apps.
Think of this as a method for passing the
liability for food borne illnesses back to the source. Of course
companies will love it.
Latest Use
for a Bitcoin Technology: Tracing Turkeys From Farm to Table
Agricultural conglomerate Cargill Inc. aims to
harness the technology underlying bitcoin to let shoppers trace their
turkeys from the store to the farm that raised them.
I would have said this was unlikely. Guess I was
wrong.
Why the TSA
-- Yes, the One at the Airport -- Is Actually Amazing at Instagram
… how do you account for the fact that the
Transportation Security Administration’s Instagram
account has 800,000 followers and counting? Not only that, but
Rolling Stone ranked it fourth on its list of 100
Instagram accounts to follow – coming in between Rihanna and
Beyonce.
Bob Burns, the lead social media specialist for
TSA Public Affairs and mastermind behind the account, attributes the
agency’s social media success to a combination of outlandish photos
of confiscated items, useful travel tips and introductions to the
adorable four-legged members of the K9 units.
… So what can entrepreneurs learn from the
success of a government agency on social media? Quite a lot, when it
comes to changing the conversation about your reputation, using the
resources you have at your disposal and approaching everything with a
sense of fun.
Is there a cure for ‘fake news?’
“News you
don’t believe”: Audience perspectives on fake news
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Oct 25, 2017
“In this Reuters
Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) Factsheet by Rasmus
Kleis Nielsen and Lucas Graves, we analyse data from 8 focus groups
and a survey of online news users to understand audience perspectives
on fake news. On the basis of focus group discussions and survey
data from the first half of 2017 from the United States, the United
Kingdom, Spain, and Finland, we find that:
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People see the difference between fake news and news as one of degree rather than a clear distinction
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When asked to provide examples of fake news, people identify poor journalism, propaganda (including both lying politicians and hyperpartisan content), and some kinds of advertising more frequently than false information designed to masquerade as news reports
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Fake news is experienced as a problem driven by a combination of some news media who publish it, some politicians who contribute to it, and some platforms that help distribute it
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People are aware of the fake news discussion and see “fake news” in part as a politicized buzzword used by politicians and others to criticize news media and platform companies
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The fake news discussion plays out against a backdrop of low trust in news media, politicians, and platforms alike—a generalized scepticism toward most of the actors that dominate the contemporary information environment
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Most people identify individual news media that they consider consistently reliable sources and would turn to for verified information, but they disagree as to which and very few sources are seen as reliable by all
Our findings suggest that, from an audience
perspective, fake news is only in part about fabricated news reports
narrowly defined, and much more about a wider discontent with the
information landscape—including news media and politicians as well
as platform companies. Tackling false news narrowly speaking is
important, but it will not address the broader issue that people feel
much of the information they come across, especially online, consists
of poor journalism, political propaganda, or misleading forms of
advertising and sponsored content.”
(Related). Must be a ‘hot topic!’
New report:
Local audiences consuming news on social platforms are hungry for
transparency
As more
and more people get at least some of their news from social
platforms, this study showcases perspectives on what the increasingly
distributed environment looks like in day-to-day media lives.
Drawing from thirteen focus groups conducted in four cities across
the United States, we sample voices of residents who reflect on their
news habits, the influence of algorithms, local news, brands, privacy
concerns, and what all this means for journalistic business models.
Keeping my Spreadsheet students entertained.
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