The Failure of the Most Desirable Security Control Ever
The Twitter blue checkmark started as a security control and slowly turned into social status. What happened to the security part?
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Mastodon's Promising Federated Approach Will Frustrate You More Than Twitter
Mastodon is an open-source federated social media network. Twitter users are flocking to it only to find furstration.
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Why is it so hard to law enforcement to track down harassers?
If you've been harassed online, is there any hope that the criminal will be caught?
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Twitter To Add Edit Button...Finally
Twitter finally admits it's working on an edit button. Why now?
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Facebook Sets Out To Build The Multiverse...and Hopes To Hide There
Facebook commits $10B per year to build the multiverse. Earnest attempt at progress or an attempt to divert attention?
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Lessons in Designing Blast Radius The Hard Way; One Mistake Crashes Facebook For Hours
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are deeply integrating into many aspects of daily life for many communities and business. One networking misconfiguration reminded 3.5 billion users of just that.
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Instagram delays launch of app for kids
On my tech column with CBC Ottawa Morning, Dr. Tracy Valliancourt and I explain the challenges with Instagram Kids and the latest research from Facebook about its impact on teens.
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Twitter Shows Slow MFA Adoption, Is Security Unusable?
Twitter's latest transparency report shows a low uptake for the multi-factor authentication feature. This is a great security control that's easy to use. What's going on?
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These Real Apps On Google Play Are Harvesting Facebook Logins
Criminals are using real apps they've made and a push to remove ads to harvest Facebook credentials in order to gain more personal information to sell.
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Apple vs. Facebook Battling For Your Privacy
Apple and Facebook have been battling very publicly around privacy issues. What's really going on?
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Clubhouse's Entirely Predictable Privacy and Moderation Issues
Clubhouse is the hot new social network. It's a promising audio-only network that now boasts over 2 millions active weekly users. During this rise, it's committed some easily avoidable and obvious mistakes around privacy and content moderation. Can they recover?
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Parler Pas: Fringe Social Network Offline
Parler gets deplatformed and can't find any organizations that want to work with it. It's about time.