Being nice to strangers online?

https://twitter.com/SuB8u/status/1486363664747986944

One of the truly dark tech startups in India is an app called MyGate. They bypass end-user consent by colluding with resident welfare associations. Users need it for “approving” entry for delivery services to their flat. 🧵 And in doing so, MyGate scoops up loads of end-user data, neatly structured by service provider, and frequency. There’s no opt-out since they just need to convince a bunch of people that manage these associations and individual users and their consent suddenly no longer matter.

Mildly amusing to see people who share selfies and address for a minor incentive from a brand suddenly go all tinfoil hat with Whatsapp's new privacy terms. Looks like Whatsapp's depths of misinformation are beginning to impact it as well! In the future, updates to privacy terms will come with a sliding scale of incentives. The sooner you agree, the more the incentive. Let's see how many holdout. 😂

Increasingly, it doesn't matter which industry you operate in. Cybersecurity should be on your CEO's agenda, if it already isn't.
The rise of malware that threatens industrial control systems is no more the realm of science fiction!
technologyreview.com/s/613054/cyber… Our insecure future involves wireless hijacking of giant cranes!
"Security researchers reveal defects that allow wireless hijacking of giant construction cranes, scrapers and excavators"
boingboing.net/2019/03/15/not…

As good a time as any to visualize our insecure future if we don't take security seriously. From the folks at @JoyofTech. #WannaCry Skimming...Super smooth skimming!
Via @NYPD19Pct