Yet ANOTHER bone-head security screw-up at Facebook. And in that article you will find this sentence: ‘The authors never intended to publish this as a final document to the whole company, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. NEVER INTENDED. Intended to publish? Does it matter what they intended to publish? After this internal report … Continue reading How Facebook Avoids Consequences for Crimes
Years ago I wrote about Google’s calculator absurdly requiring permission for network access. A calculator requires network? Looking back now, and based on recent headlines, perhaps the calculator story should have been front page news. Someone just prompted me to answer why Google’s Authenticator app needs to track location and data, and the calculator immediately … Continue reading Contact Tracing Fail: Why is Google So Bad at Basic Security and Privacy?
A “CyberWar 2.0” book published in 1998 had a chapter called “Information Peacekeeping: The Purest Form of War“. Here’s the sort of cogent warning you will find, written by Robert D. Steele, which seems like it was written just yesterday. …perhaps the most important aspect of Information Operations is the defensive aspect. Our highest priority, … Continue reading 1990s Warnings About Cyber War That Nobody Heard
Update April 22, 2021: A statement from Consumer Reports’ senior director of auto testing, Jake Fisher confirms that the Tesla vehicles lack basic safety — fail to include a modern-day equivalent of a seat belt. In our test, the system not only failed to make sure the driver was paying attention — it couldn’t even … Continue reading Tesla CEO Gaslighting Autopilot Safety Failures