Com security does not happen in a vacuum. User behavior; appropriate defaults; actionable warnings & warning fatigue backfire are important.
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Remote scenarios have to be assessed & reported carefully; defaults have to be set within context of user base. Otherwise it's less secure!
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Security has no single right answers; if you run around like everyone has Ed Snowden's threat model, you can make billions less secure.
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Also, there is a journalism lesson here besides Guardian's irresponsible and opportunistic dropping the ball on WhatsApp story. +
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Alarmism gets clicks. Guardian rode the wave of pageviews—despite being told the danger its story posed. Asked me to write "counterpoint".
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I refused because "on the one hand; on the other hand" pitting misleading alarmist clickbait against complex truths confuses people more.
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Journalism, if it has a point, has to take the side of complex truths and stand behind them. Why should anyone pay for alarmist clickbait?
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This, by the way, is also why the infosec community is fawning over the Teen Vogue article. It's good. https://twitter.com/funnymonkey/status/837653208168198144 …
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And the journo who wrote for Teen Vogue on comsec—looking to do a piece on antivirus software. *faints* Ping her.—> https://twitter.com/njkobie/status/837668852687323136 …
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Why I'm still on this case. Disinformation & conjuring undue doubt is *the* model to muddy the waters on everything.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/837696035556249600 …
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Climate change. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Vaccines. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Secure messaging. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Corruption. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Epistemological nihilism is a crisis.
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World is complex, so we MUST combine complexity, context *and* facts—alarmist clickbait like Guardian on WhatsApp is the opposite of that.
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"But that takes EFFORT and WORK!" whine the masses...
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