Part Two.
Dave Rubin With James O’Keefe
Tomorrow’s Products Today
Break Them Up
Into a hundred thousand million pieces.
Oh my! @Google has removed my photo and name from the "Founders of @Greenpeace". It was still there 2 days ago but now I am erased. Tech Tyranny!!
1st image a few days ago screen shot.
2nd image this morning.
Both were Googled "Who are the founders of Greenpeace" pic.twitter.com/W0fHWmLMtl— Patrick Moore (@EcoSenseNow) March 16, 2019
Related: Don’t Regulate Google, Says Google-Funded National Review Editor
Put Your Trust In The Experts
Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds
The Future Is Rabbit Ears
There’s a simple reason why your new smart TV was so affordable: It’s collecting and selling your data
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Just Brilliant
Your internet-of-shit smart lightbulb is probably storing your wifi password in the clear, ready to be recovered by wily dumpster-divers; Limited Results discovered the security worst-practice during a teardown of a Lifx bulb; and that’s just for starters…
Like The Man Who Killed His Parents
Then begged for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
It’s Probably Nothing
When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious disease. But one group of biohackers has demonstrated how DNA can carry a less expected threat—one designed to infect not humans nor animals but computers.
In new research they plan to present at the USENIX Security conference on Thursday, a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it’s possible to 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.
Break Them Up
‘The goal is to automate us’: The combination of state surveillance and its capitalist counterpart means that digital technology is separating the citizens in all societies into two groups: the watchers (invisible, unknown and unaccountable) and the watched.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Amazon’s sensor-filled belt solution comes just one month after a robot-involved accident in one of the company’s warehouses resulted in the hospitalization of 24 workers.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
And others are finally beginning to notice.
Social Disease
Old tweets reveal hidden secrets
Researchers from the Foundation for Research and Technology in Greece and the University of Illinois found all this out after writing a tool called LPAuditor. The software mines publicly available tweet data that anyone can download from Twitter via its application programming interface (API).
Using the tool, they analyzed the metadata – hidden information about a tweet embedded in the post – to identify users’ homes, workplaces and sensitive places that they visited. In dozens of cases, they were also able to identify the users behind anonymous Twitter accounts.
Break Them Up
Into a hundred thousand million pieces.
We needed to make an example of Damore. Looking for some excuse to fire him, we spied on his phone and computer. We didn’t find anything, although our spying probably made his devices unusably slow, preventing him from organizing support within the company. When we did fire him, our reputation and integrity took a hit, but at least other employees were now afraid to speak up.
(h/t BC)
Break Them Up
This is pretty incredible. @Google image search vs @DuckDuckGo for Scott Adams.
Why on earth does Google show FAKE photoshop Nazi uniform images for @ScottAdamsSays ? pic.twitter.com/OG5wZfY8bQ
— 🇮🇱Dr Brian of London (@brianoflondon) December 30, 2018
Because they can and you can’t stop them.
Break Them Up
Economists since Adam Smith have taught us that in a competitive economy, the pursuit of private interests leads to the best possible outcome for everybody. But notice the qualifier: for this arrangement to work, there must be competition. It should disturb us, then, that the founders of Google themselves admit that the history of searches they have amassed creates a gigantic barrier to new entrants.
Grab a coffee.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Baby, you can drive my car: Amazon’s Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
Break Them Up
Into a hundred thousand million pieces.
Back in 2015, a woman named Imy Santiago wrote an Amazon review of a novel that she had read and liked. Amazon immediately took the review down and told Santiago she had “violated its policies.” Santiago re-read her review, didn’t see anything objectionable about it, so she tried to post it again. “You’re not eligible to review this product,” an Amazon prompt informed her.
When she wrote to Amazon about it, the company told her that her “account activity indicates you know the author personally.” Santiago did not know the author, so she wrote an angry email to Amazon and blogged about Amazon’s “big brother” surveillance.
I reached out to both Santiago and Amazon at the time to try to figure out what the hell happened here. Santiago, who is an indie book writer herself, told me that she’d been in the same ballroom with the author in New York a few months before at a book signing event, but had not talked to her, and that she had followed the author on Twitter and Facebook after reading her books. Santiago had never connected her Facebook account to Amazon, she said.
Update.
Facebook admits that it allowed Netflix and Spotify to access your private messages
Google Commemorative Logos You’ll Never See
