A series of timeline delays in another Facebook breach story seem rather strange for 2019. This breach started with a physical break-in November 17th and those affected didn’t hear about it for nearly a month, until December 13th. The break-in happened on Nov. 17, and Facebook realized the hard drives were missing on Nov. 20, … Continue reading Facebook Failed to Encrypt Data, Failed to Notice Breach, Didn’t Notify Victims for a Month→
New legal research moves us closer towards holding social media executives criminally liable for the Rohingya crisis and other global security failures under their watch: …this paper argues that it may be more productive to conceptualise social media’s role in atrocity crimes through the lens of complicity, drawing inspiration not from the media cases in … Continue reading Can Facebook’s CSO be Held Liable for Atrocity Crimes?→
Joshua Maddux tweeted easily reproducible evidence that the Facebook app turns on your iPhone camera without notifying you and at times you weren’t expecting. TNW picked up the story: By now, everyone should be well aware that any iOS app that has been granted access to your camera can secretly record you. Back in 2017, … Continue reading Facebook App Caught Secretly Using Camera to Spy?→
A “Potemkin Village” is made from fake storefronts built to fraudulently impress a visiting czar and dignitaries. The “front organization” is torn down once its specific message/purpose ends. Step one (PDF): Facebook sets up special pay-to-play access (competitive advantage) to user data and leaks this privileged (back) door to Russia. (October 8, 2014 email in … Continue reading Is Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) a Front Organization for Facebook?→