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Linked: Crowd-Sourced Suspicion Apps Are Out of Control
I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last couple of years. We tend to think of the “Big Tech” apps and social networks as being the problem in the digital world, but really it’s all these little places too, because, as they describe, they don’t just keep us informed of actual events in our neighborhoods, they keep us informed of every single instance of something that someone finds suspicious.
This, in turn, makes us go from living in a relatively calm neighborhood to believing we are just one or two days away from the Purge.
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There’s an inherent flaw in using Google’s “pages like this” function. Some blogs can appear to be alike one day because they both discuss a certain topic, but may generally have very little to do with one another. This is especially true when you get a group of people talking about going to Gnomedex, because…
Linked: The count of managed service providers getting hit with ransomware mounts
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Linked – Why you shouldn’t unlock your phone with your face
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Weighing security and privacy after Sept. 11
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Loose ends
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