Tomorrow (Monday) at 2PM PT, I'm chairing a webinar for ACM-USTPC called "Policy, Profit, Privacy, and Privilege: The Post-Pandemic Future of Remote Testing Technology"
In the simplistic account of what many call "surveillance capitalism," the original sin was swapping our attention for free content, summed up in the pithy phrase, "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product." 1/
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I flatter myself that I'm pretty secure online. I've written global bestsellers about #infosec, worked for @EFF for nearly 20 years, given keynotes at some of the world's largest infosec conferences. And yet, I have been hacked. It wasn't even very sophisticated! 1/
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It was in 2010. My kid had made a fuss about going to day-care so my wife and I were late walking to work. The cafe we always stopped at for a coffee had longer lines at that hour, so I stood in line while she sat down and read a paper.