Uncurated dumps like the Podesta emails are a threat to healthy dissent, even a form of censorship. Me for the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html …pic.twitter.com/ajuslzuYOO
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Uncurated dumps like the Podesta emails are a threat to healthy dissent, even a form of censorship. Me for the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html …pic.twitter.com/ajuslzuYOO
These uncurated dumps destroy personal privacy & kick up a cloud of confusion, not illumination. Should alarm people who care about dissent.
By the way: my argument on why Podesta-like hack & mass dumps are harmful to a healthy democracy isn't about who did the hack—Russia or not.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted The Washington Post
I mean, it's one week to a major election and this is the stuff going viral, while mass media obsesses with gossip.https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/794647737434304513 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Surprising that US privacy-advocates are not alarmed at the harm the mass hack method does to ability to dissent. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html …pic.twitter.com/5g6A71hdIS
zeynep tufekci Retweeted digging around in the HTML
I hear this a lot.1-The powerful will manage; dissent will go back to pre-internet: unable to communicate globally.https://twitter.com/jeremyzimmer/status/794699961153662976 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Not what I was implying. Dissent already has some good opsec. Phishing, 2FA are well understood in many activist circles.
The only point I was making is that Podesta didn't have even those basics because his privilege taught him it wasn't necessary.
I think it's more generational. They'll hire IT people. Phishing awareness and 2FA are good, but won't save activists.
Mass hacks are like the early days of the internet; the old guard doesn't know what to do yet. Watch them adapt... with $$$.
I agree that we'll see new and ugly ways of using maliciously obtained personal data. But the "obtaining" part isn't new.
Account security/compromise is a somewhat mature arms race. I'm biased towards education/user safety because that's my day job.
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