#1yrago Leaked internal docs show that Facebook shuts down access to user data to kill competitors, but claims it is protecting users nbcnews.com/news/all/leake…
My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."
I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.
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Inside: Boundless Realms; Student data breaches vastly underreported; UK corporate registrar bans code-injection; Someone Comes to Town Part 22; and more!
On the grounds that merely including the name of the company on a web-page (including the Companies House website) could trigger cross-site scripting attacks.
Even before lockdown, ed-tech had taken over America's public schools, with students increasingly completing assignments, accessing course materials and messaging each other and teachers through monolithic ed-tech platforms .And where you have IT, you have breaches.
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Ed-tech breaches are particularly ghastly - they've leaked teachers' databases of which kids are being bullied; students' medical and mental-health records; and information needed to steal millions from classroom funds.
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But as the @K12CyberMap project reports, the extent of these breaches has been vastly underreported, because breach-reports count compromised VENDORS, not compromised SCHOOLS.
There's a lot of fascinating writing about Disney theme parks and theme park design more generally on the internet, but no one thinks and writes like @Passport2Dreams, who is always brilliant, but never moreso than when she is writing about the Haunted Mansion.
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Nolte has just published her first book on the subject: Boundless Realm, and - speaking as someone who's read dozens of books on theme parks and the Mansion - I can say that it is the very best book on the subject ever written.
The mine, and its associated railroad and port, are a toxic mix of long-term (CO2) and immediate (reef-killing dredging) environmental consequences. It's so bad that Australia's major insurers will not write a policy for the project: