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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Sep 2017

      For the NYT, I wrote about Equifax 🙄and how corporations shift most risks of tech to users. Time for responsibility. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/equifax-accountability-security.html …pic.twitter.com/VazJLx5TcX

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Sep 2017

      Software can't be perfect is not an argument for utter lack of responsibility for unreliable, insecure software—which seems to be the norm!

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Sep 2017

      I forgot to return a library book, and my credit will suffer more than Equifax execs will for failing to secure financial info for 145 mil.🙄

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Sep 2017

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jeff Brozena

      Fundamental issue at heart of so much we deal with.https://twitter.com/brozena/status/907326383290023936 …

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      Jeff Brozena @brozena
      Replying to @zeynep
      A point by Visa founder Dee Hock in his book One From Many: the assets belong to corporations, liabilities to society.
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Sep 2017

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Dustin Volz

      I'd like to know the answers especially to questions 6, 7 and 8. What do our surveillance overlords do, if anything?https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/907340419238907905 …

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      Dustin VolzVerified account @dnvolz
      NEWS: Senate Finance Committee leaders Hatch and Wyden ask @Equifax CEO for info on hack, including what stock-selling execs knew and when pic.twitter.com/Dhvyj8MALS
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Sep 2017

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted briankrebs

      😱This is incredible. Admin/admin username/password is just the beginning. Goes downhill from even there!https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/907932442132172800 …

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      briankrebsVerified account @briankrebs
      ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/ayuda-help-equifax-has-my-data/ …
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Sep 2017

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted briankrebs

      😱This isn't "bugs happen." As I wrote in the NYT—it's neglect & underinvestment, because there is no accountability.https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/908722014449520642 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      briankrebsVerified account @briankrebs
      1/2: Interesting KPMG audit doc on Equifax site from 2014. Shows they left private encryption keys on the server. http://www.equifax.com/soc1reports/documents/EquifaxWorkforce_UnemploymentCostMgmt.pdf … pic.twitter.com/O6fB3a9pGh
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Sep 2017

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted FORTUNE

      What is there left to say?https://twitter.com/fortunemagazine/status/912808270259265536 …

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      FORTUNEVerified account @FortuneMagazine
      Equifax CEO Richard Smith, who oversaw breach, to collect $90 million http://for.tn/2foZKIW  pic.twitter.com/PTwcbylh00
      5:22 PM - 27 Sep 2017
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        1. Mark Pesce #GetABooster  💉 💉 💉 #WearAMask  😷‏ @mpesce 27 Sep 2017
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          Ca-Ching?

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        1. Christopher Ceppi‏ @ChrisCeppi 27 Sep 2017
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          Just think of all the taxes he'll have to pay on that $90M. Poor fella.

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        1. Gretchen Pfeil‏ @pfeil 27 Sep 2017
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          Nothing.

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        1. drwhosnooze‏ @Karen__J1987 27 Sep 2017
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          How about, "Let's give him a tax break!"?

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        1. Infinite Social Justice  🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇷‏ @burkinator20xx 27 Sep 2017
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          *singing* We didn't start the fire! *pours gasoline*

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        1. Josh‏ @SuperMaurice 27 Sep 2017
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          The guillotine has a way of sorting these people out.

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        1. Ingraham Effingham‏ @eff_ing 27 Sep 2017
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        1. Josh‏ @SrslyJosh 27 Sep 2017
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          Eat the rich.

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        1. dan nguyen‏Verified account @dancow 28 Sep 2017
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          Maybe it's a fair reward for all those other days that Equifax *didn't* have massive data breaches

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        1. christina b‏ @csageland 28 Sep 2017
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          Change the way we evaluate and use tech. Join us @tech_we_trust http://diglife.com 

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