[liberationtech] Trump's Instagram Following Is Full Of Bots And Russians - Forbes
Dear libtech list, Forbes published my latest research about Trump and his digital followers: "Trump is big with bots elsewhere too. Over on Facebook-owned Instagram, Trump’s been acquiring a good deal of followers, but significant tranches of them are bots and Russians, researchers from Italy told FORBES today. And, of course, there are untold numbers of Russian bots [...]" link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/11/07/25000-russians-follow-trump-instagram-bots-everywhere/#2d46b6227128 feedback are welcome Andrea -- *A*ndrea *S*troppa Security researcher, World Economic Forum https://agenda.weforum.org/people/andrea-stroppa/ @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] Fake Accounts Still Plague Instagram Despite Purge, Study Finds
Dear LibTech, I'd love to share my latest research with you Last December, Instagram said it had purged millions of fake accounts, in an effort to provide more accurate numbers to marketers. Now, Italian security researchers say about 8% of Instagram accounts appear to be run by computer-generated “bots.” Read all: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/30/fake-accounts-still-plague-instagram-despite-purge-study-finds/?mod=ST1 best, A -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] What does the future hold for media? - World Economic Forum
dear Libtech, Today, media reaches into every corner of the world and is becoming increasingly important, particularly in the West. Universities, think tanks and research centres are producing a complex body of knowledge about the current news-making process *https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/05/what-does-the-future-hold-for-media/ https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/05/what-does-the-future-hold-for-media/* my take for the World Economic Forum, feedbacks are welcome. -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] Why the EU would be wrong to sanction Google - World Economic Forum
Dear LibTech List, I wrote for the WEF about Google and EU antitrust case. Feedback and comments are welcome: https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/04/why-the-eu-would-be-wrong-to-sanction-google/ best, A -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] Digital citizenship first: White House endorses “HTTPS-everything
dear LibTech list, Finally we can start the day with some good news from the White House. Its Office of Management and Budget just launched the “HTTPS-Only Standard” initiative, requiring the use of the HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) protocol on all publicly accessible Federal websites and web services. My view on Huffingtonpost: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa/digital-citizenship-first_b_6894938.html?utm_hp_ref=technologyir=Technology feedback? best, andrea -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] [SPAM:####] [SPAM:###] Davos 2015 takes aim at the future of the internet (and cyber-security)
Dear list, this is my latest comment on Huffington Post about Davos and its panels on cyber security. Several panels with Jonathan Zittrain, Kaspersky, Merkel, Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Bradford L. Smith. Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa/davos-2015-takes-aim-at-t_b_6505286.html?utm_hp_ref=davos Comments are welcome, -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] Bloomberg exclusive: facebook ads and counterfeit goods
Dear LibTech, this is my latest research about facebook ads and counterfeit goods: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-13/fake-out-many-luxury-items-advertised-on-facebook-are-phony-researchers-say.html what is your view? Google is working very hard on this, last year they blocked more than 300 millions of bad ads -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] 'Internet, a Gift From God' -Pope of the Digital Age - HuffPost
Dear friends, i would like to share this article by me and Alessandro Bonzio. Pope Francesco was elected on the 13th of march 2013. Today we celebrate the first year of Francesco. An analysis about the Pope, Internet, cybertheology and more... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/alessandro-bonzio/pope-francis-digital-age_b_4955367.html?utm_hp_ref=religionir=Religion -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] WSJ: The Facebook Ads Teens Weren't Supposed to See
I suggest to read this report: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304703804579381552745011772?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStoriesmg=reno64-wsj The story tells the problem of facebook ads and teens. Who do you like? asked recent ads on Facebook, featuring young women in alluring poses. Some of the ads were configured to reach young teens, who were invited to join an app called Ilikeq that let others rate their attractiveness, comment on their photos and say if they would like to date them [..] i'm very proud that i helped on this story. -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] The World Post by Arianna Huffington at Davos
dear LiberationTech, Arianna Huffington introduces during Davos the new edition called Worldpost that you can visit here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theworldpost/ i'm really excited and this is my blogpost for the Worldpost http://huff.to/1fb3KEI comments are welcome! -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] On Evgeny Morozov | Boston Review
I agree with Joshua and i enjoyed his piece. Il giorno venerdì 3 gennaio 2014, Yosem Companys ha scritto: January 03, 2014 On Evgeny Morozov by Joshua Cohen, Boston Review Evgeny Morozov, a contributing editor at Boston Review, is a compulsive problematizer. I hate that word “problematizer,” but it leaps to mind when I think about Evgeny, who is the focus of a new profile by Michael Meyer in the Columbia Journalism Review. (In the name of the overrated value of transparency, I should say that Evgeny is a friend, though as you will see from the profile, I am not a cheerleader. I think he is curmudgeonly to a fault, and think that the criticism he practices is easier than the construction he should.) Maybe a better way to say it is that Evgeny is a question-man, not an answer-man. He asks lots of very important questions in service of skepticism: not exactly skepticism about technology, but a sharply critical skepticism about some—as he sees it—widespread, unthinking, and humanly damaging ways of writing and talking about technology, especially information and communication technology. Boston Review published many of Evgeny’s early long-form essays, beginning with “Texting Toward Utopia,” which took on the then-popular assumption that the Internet is a powerful force for spreading democracy. He also wrote, more than two years ago, about the “backdoor” surveillance infrastructure being built as part of the war on terror. In “Passing Through, Why the Open Internet is Worth Saving,” he wrote in support of “net neutrality,” while trying to rescue it from some of its friends. Evgeny is also the author of two important books: The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (PublicAffairs, 2011) and, most recently, To Save Everything, Click Here (PublicAffairs, 2013). The Net Delusion (building on the arguments in “Texting Toward Utopia”) provided a sustained critique of some extravagant claims about the Internet’s political promise. The Internet, you may recall, was going to be the great solvent of authoritarian rule: the technology of freedom that would enable people to escape from the controlled communication, thus controlled thought and conduct, associated with authoritarianism. In 1999, George Bush said: “imagine if the Internet took hold in China. Imagine how freedom would spread.” In 2009, Andrew Sullivan said—in reference to Iran’s Green Revolution—“the revolution will be twittered.” And not just that: Wikipedia provided a model for decentralized, team collaboration. Why not Wiki-government? The Internet would not only unmake authoritarianism: it would remake democracy. Evgeny’s first book was a powerful dissent from this cyber-utopian outlook: described byThe Economist as “a provocative, enlightening and welcome riposte to the cyber-utopian worldview.” I think it is fair to say that that worldview has fewer proponents now. Many more people realize that authoritarians are not all-thumbs when it comes to information technology; that communication is not the same as concerted action; and that most people go online for less elevated purposes than overthrowing authoritarian rule or fostering more participatory governance. There may be a delta, but it is not obvious how big it is. To Save Everything, Click Here is also critical: not exclusively, but principally. The target of Evgeny’s criticism is an “amelioration orgy” that he associates with Silicon Valley. “In the past few years,” Evgeny says, “Silicon Valley’s favorite slogan has quietly changed from ‘Innovate or Die’ to ‘Ameliorate or Die.’” The book describes, powerfully and in insightful detail, a series of projects of amelioration: self-tracking devices that provide remedies for obesity, insomnia, heavy carbon footprints, and the limitations of memory. Information and communication strategies for remedying political corruption, hypocrisy, opacity, and all the hurdles to informed civic engagement. Algorithms that help us figure out what to read and where to eat. Information technology solutions for preempting crime, keeping the jerks out of the clubs, helping the needy while having fun, connecting with distant strangers while distancing from connected neighbors. You get the idea—though to really get it you need to read the book. (That said, the book is not really about Silicon Valley: it has more references to Jane McGonigal than to Steve Jobs. It is really about the assumptions of some intellectuals who write about information technology.) The Net Delusion criticized the idea that new communication technologies would serve the emancipatory goal that proponents said they would serve. It focused on the effectiveness of the means in achieving the ends. To Save Everything is about ends, not means. Assume for the sake of argument, he says, that the ameliorative orgy ends in boundless success: obesity conquered; jerks out of the good clubs; bad guys incapacitated;
[liberationtech] Twitter: Fake followers, manipulate trending topics..WSJ
Dear LiberationTech, finally, i'm honored and happy to share my findings with the WSJ. Follow an article about Twitter underground economy on the homepage of the WSJ : http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304607104579212122084821400 best, -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Review request for GlobaLeaks Messaging Chat Improvements
Next time write an introduction about GL, thanks. 2013/10/27 Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch Greetings, we would like to share a Proposal for GlobaLeaks Messaging Chat Improvements that plan to integrate enhanced one-to-one messaging and chat into GlobaLeaks: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L8yVgarISeIxIvsFgoT3cF1MYzhEa6YyZzOAsAvR-yY/edit?usp=sharing The idea is to do so by leveraging the best of existing browser crypto applications and libraries: - CryptoCat for Chat - OpenPGP.js for Messaging encryption - Mailvelope for enhanced messaging security We'd love to get some feedback, review and possibly support -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] AdLeaks - a whistleblowing platform
it sounds different from globaleaks project. Am i right? 2013/6/23 Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com ..on Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:15:13AM +0200, Jens Christian Hillerup wrote: We designed the AdLeaks system to work with partners who embed AdLeaks ads or AdLeaks bugs into their web pages. Our ads contain code that encrypts an empty message with the AdLeaks public key and sends the ciphertext back to AdLeaks. This happens on all users' web browsers. A whistleblower's browser substitutes the ciphertext with encrypted parts of a disclosure. The protocol ensures that an adversary who can eavesdrop on the network communication cannot distinguish between the transmissions of regular browsers and those of whistleblowers' browsers. AdLeaks ads are authenticated so that a whistleblower's browser can tell them apart from other code. Consequently, whistleblowers never have to navigate to any particular site to communicate with AdLeaks once our ads are sufficiently widespread. http://www.adleaks.org/how.html Very smart approach. Congrats. -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] Opt out of Prism
Dear friends, i would like to share with you this project and see your comments. http://prism-break.org/ best, -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Opt out of Prism
Dear friends about John Adams, i just copied the title of the website. No more, no less. 2013/6/12 Guido Witmond gu...@witmond.nl On 12-06-13 19:21, John Adams wrote: I like that you're promoting free and open tools, but your title is misleading. You offer people false hope here. By listing the tools and not listing what level of security they offer, people will assume they can just switch and be protected. This is one of the reasons why the EFF does not recommend tools. The issues associated with each tool are myriad and vast. What's sad is that the media picked up on this, amplifying the false hope you offer. A+ for effort, though. Although I can agree that many of these tools do not offer (significant) protection against unwanted data gathering. It's good that such a list comes to the attention of the people who are worried about their privacy. Even with false hope, a society without hope is doomed... I hope some people will take time to switch to some tools and spread that knowledge further. Guido. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/**mailman/listinfo/**liberationtechhttps://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Opt out of Prism
I see many emails from journalists here about this project. I'm not the author, i'm just a visitor like you. the author's email is: p...@nylira.com (you can find on the footer) thank you! 2013/6/12 Andrea St and...@gmail.com: Dear friends about John Adams, i just copied the title of the website. No more, no less. 2013/6/12 Guido Witmond gu...@witmond.nl On 12-06-13 19:21, John Adams wrote: I like that you're promoting free and open tools, but your title is misleading. You offer people false hope here. By listing the tools and not listing what level of security they offer, people will assume they can just switch and be protected. This is one of the reasons why the EFF does not recommend tools. The issues associated with each tool are myriad and vast. What's sad is that the media picked up on this, amplifying the false hope you offer. A+ for effort, though. Although I can agree that many of these tools do not offer (significant) protection against unwanted data gathering. It's good that such a list comes to the attention of the people who are worried about their privacy. Even with false hope, a society without hope is doomed... I hope some people will take time to switch to some tools and spread that knowledge further. Guido. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] Twitter Underground Market Research - pdf
Dear friends, Two weeks ago we presented at Nexa For Internet Society our Research about Twitter and underground market. Now you can download here: http://nexa.polito.it/nexacenterfiles/lunch-11-de_micheli-stroppa.pdf Our research on Nyt part1: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/fake-twitter-followers-becomes-multimillion-dollar-business/ Our research on Nyt part2 : http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/researchers-call-out-twitter-celebrities-with-suspicious-followings/ Now we're working on Facebook. If you have any idea or you would like to get in touch my email is: and...@gmail.com Best, A -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
