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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/technology/youtube-conspiracy-stars.html
YouTube’s stars are primarily homegrown, and many feel — not entirely unreasonably — that after years of encouraging them to build their audiences with viral stunts and baseless rumor-mongering, the platform is now changing the rules on them.
“My left shoe won’t even reboot.”
https://www.bt.no/btmeninger/kommentar/i/4dpnMq/Er-fake-news-festen-over-na
Konklusjonen er at selskapet rett og slett har sviktet på alle plan
Britenes oppsummering er mørk. De mener demokratiet er under angrep, og at Facebook er et viktig verktøy for de destruktive kreftene.
170,000 hours of incredibly sensitive calls were stored on an open web server without any encryption or authentication, leaving personal information completely exposed for anyone with a web browser.
https://www.nrk.no/urix/stempler-facebook-som-_digitale-gangstere_-1.14437301
I rapporten anklager den tverrpolitiske mediekomiteen Facebook for å ha satt demokratiet i fare fordi de har eksponert brukerne sine for desinformasjon spesielt i forbindelse med valg.
The tech giants are demanding a continuous stream of customer information from smart-home manufacturers, prompting privacy concerns.
When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user’s data cap, that’s zero rating.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyq8v/how-to-unlock-icloud-stolen-iphone
In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to “unlock iCloud” from iPhones.
https://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/J1mGO7/Norske-Visma-utsatt-for-datainnbrudd-fra-Kina
[en del av] et stort dataangrep fra Kinas sikkerhetsdepartement i desember, med mål om å stjele forretningshemmeligheter.
fikk tilgang til krypterte brukernavn og passord til de interne systemene, men ikke kundesystemet.
https://www.nrk.no/norge/pst-advarer_-_-vaer-oppmerksom-pa-huawei-1.14414252
PST peker på Kina og Russland som cybertrusler, og ber myndighetene holde et øye med den kinesiske telegiganten Huawei.
https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/
encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that corrupts gene-sequencing software and takes control of the underlying computer.
https://www.nrk.no/norge/smartklokken-reddet-toralv-lordag-natt-1.14412266
Natt til lørdag falt Toralv Østvang (67) hardt i badegulvet alene på Hamar. En knapp halvtime senere fant politiet ham blodig og bevisstløs. De hadde fått beskjed av smartklokken rundt håndleddet hans.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/
It looks like Facebook was not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users.
how former U.S. government hackers have employed state-of-the-art cyber-espionage tools on behalf of a foreign intelligence service that spies on human rights activists, journalists and political rivals.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps
The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.
https://nrkbeta.no/2019/01/30/facebook-har-i-en-arrekke-betalt-tenaringer-for-a-fa-spionere-pa-dem/
Appen installerte et såkalt rotsertifikat
Dette betyr blant annet at Facebook har kunne se hvilke nettsider tenåringene surfet på og hva de skrev i private chatmeldinger.
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transparency-tools
A number of organizations […] have developed tools to let the public see exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers.
Now, Facebook has quietly made changes to its site that stop those efforts.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo app that Apple banned in June
Employees offered bonuses to steal rival tech, prosecutors say
CFO allegedly lied to banks about Huawei’s business in Iran
https://www.lawfareblog.com/evaluating-gchq-exceptional-access-proposal
On the other side of this debate is pretty much all technologists working in computer security and cryptography, who argue that adding eavesdropping features fundamentally makes those systems less secure.