Thread below has advice on practical stuff everyone can do to up their security. New thread to look at media, Wikileaks & tech illiteracy.
https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/840176795072761856 …
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If someone "leaked" calorie count of potato chips from a supermarket, is this the headline "WIKILEAKS REVEALS CALORIES CAUSE WEIGHT GAIN!"?
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This is what media has fallen for; even worse because the leaks show nothing new about encryption apps—maybe except their strength.
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CIA leaks are news in that: someone hacked the CIA. That's news. The content of the leaks? NOT A NEW THING REVEALED ABOUT ENCRYPTION APPS.
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If someone hacks your phone or reads over your shoulder, they can see your messages. On what planet has this JUST been revealed? A headline?
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I wrote this because activists and journalists were panicking. Media cannot, should not, be this tech illiterate. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wikileaks-cia-cache.html …pic.twitter.com/i1LyABUCbs
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Older, un-updated android phones are not secure. In infosec world, that is more mundane than saying the sky is blue. Reported endlessly!
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If you don't understand the infosec field, talk to experts before parroting Wikileaks, or making big, sensational claims about it all.
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Look, device insecurity is real. Lives are at stake. Most common threat is crude phishing. Like this.https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/03/azerbaijan-activists-targeted-by-government-sponsored-cyber-attack/ …
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So it is damaging to be parroting sensationalist claims & frameworks about perhaps the ONE thing (encryption) that got more widespread.
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So only newsworthy part of #Vault7 is that someone hacked the CIA. That's news. Rest: 1-not about encryption; 2-known; 3-misleading frame.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted FRANCE 24 English
Aargh. If you have an older android phone, forget the CIA, your cousin can sneeze in its direction and get in.https://twitter.com/France24_en/status/840244674698731520 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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Not necessarily "older", since plenty of vendors sell brand new devices that are already way behind on security patches...
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