Would this create a guilty conscious? Would that increase the
probability of believing the extortion emails?
Dan Goodin reports:
A recent hack of eight poorly secured adult websites has exposed megabytes of personal data that could be damaging to the people who shared pictures and other highly intimate information on the online message boards. Included in the leaked file are (1) IP addresses that connected to the sites, (2) user passwords protected by a four-decade-old cryptographic scheme, (3) names, and (4) 1.2 million unique email addresses, although it’s not clear how many of the addresses legitimately belonged to actual users.
Robert Angelini, the owner of wifelovers.com and the seven other breached sites, told Ars on Saturday morning that, in the 21 years they operated, fewer than 107,000 people posted to them.
Read more on Ars
Technica.
In the meantime, people continue to
receive unrelated extortion demands via email with claims that
someone has obtained your files and video of you masturbating, etc.
As examples, here are two emails this blogger received this week.
They refer to two different BTC wallets, and are sent to two
different email addresses, but both follow the same basic format in
terms of the threats.
My classes have been debating this.
Will Tech
Leave Detroit in the Dust?
As IPO proposals
value Uber at an eye-popping $120 billion, auto makers are racing to
gain ground in everything from car sharing to driverless technology.
At stake: who will control the future of transportation
General Motors plans to roll out a robo-taxi
service next year that will let urbanites hail a driverless Chevrolet
Bolt. Ford is overhauling a dilapidated Detroit train station to
become a tech hub aimed at attracting software superstars. Daimler
wants to merge one of its divisions with archrival BMW to create a
juggernaut for services like ride hailing and car sharing.
And Toyota says it’s evolving into an entirely
different company, one that focuses more on services that move people
around. “It’s a matter of surviving...
It never seems to have much impact when we tell
people how they are being targeted.
How
Political Campaigns Are Messing With Your Mind
… It’s impossible to know whether Cambridge
Analytica’s psychographic algorithms truly made a difference in
Trump’s victory. But the underlying idea—that political
campaigns can identify and influence potential voters more
effectively by gathering as much information as possible on their
identities, beliefs, and habits—continues to drive both Republican
and Democratic data firms, which are currently hard at work on the
next generation of digital campaign tools. And while the controversy
surrounding Cambridge Analytica exposed some of the more ominous
aspects of election campaigning in the age of big data, the
revelations haven’t led to soul-searching on the part of tech
companies or serious calls for reform by the public—and certainly
not from politicians, who benefit most from these tactics.
(Related) For people whose minds are made up?
Republicans
Find a Facebook Workaround: Their Own Apps
Imagine a society in
which everyone more or less agrees with you.
You wake up in the morning to online greetings
from people who share your views on guns, religion and country. Your
news feed contains only posts from like-minded politicians or
articles from like-minded news outlets. You can safely post your own
comments without fear of vitriol from trolls or challenges from
naysayers.
This is the insular world in which tens of
thousands of Americans who use conservative political apps are
experiencing the midterm election season.
Perspective. (Although this seems more about not
trusting the economists.) Do antitrust laws adequately consider
companies with global reach and competitors one click away?
… The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has
launched its most wide-ranging study of corporate concentration in
America in more than 20 years with a series of hearings being held
around the country. Chairman Joseph Simons, a practical
enforcement-minded leader, launched the hearings by expressing
concern over the growing problem of monopoly, which is now found in
nearly every sector of the economy.
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