by David | Jul 18, 2017 | Blogging, Blogs, Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media
No TOR, but Rule 66 instead I’ve been in Yangon for more than two weeks now, and I’m starting to run into the outer edges of what is allowed here on the internet. First, Netflix and Apple Music work here. So I’m able to (pretty much) update the apps...
by David | May 1, 2017 | Conspiracy Theories, Digital Migration, Sip With Caution
Hackers want in. Don’t make it easy for them. With all the controversies swirling around hacked emails and cyber-threats, I was asked to come in to USC-Annenberg, and speak to the students about what they need to know about security. Basically, I had to come in...
by David | Jan 16, 2017 | Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media, Ukraine
Guccifer hacker – the one who leaked DNC emails – taunts US government I guess this is the world we live in now. With increasing attention being paid to the way that hacks of formerly secure and private information is destablilizing governments around the...
by David | Jun 26, 2015 | Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media, Ukraine
Ukrainians fighting the Kremlin’s propaganda machine release report on what they’ve learned While I’ve been regularly sharing, reposting and ReTweeting the efforts of my friends, colleagues and students in Ukraine over the past year and a half, I...
by David | Apr 22, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs, Conspiracy Theories
Is every crowdsourced “let’s catch the Bad Guys” effort inherently doomed to wind up as a witch hunt? For a while last week, as we were all caught up in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, I was cheered up a bit by the efforts of Reddit and...
by David | Jan 24, 2012 | Amusing Nonsense, Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media
The Teleprompter is Us Tonight’s State of the Union address is being billed as “the most interactive political act ever.” Well, other than the crowdsourcing that brought people to the guillotine during the French Revolution. Although, if you read...
