So the introduction, below, identifies the problem. Basically, we’re pretty terrible at identifying misleading information on the internet, and this is not a new thing either. We’ve always been pretty terrible.
Subsequent episodes will help solve that problem by teaching us how to be good fact checkers, which may be something you have some interest in, or at least know someone who should have an interest.
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Finally a day without fires to put out, maybe I can get caught up on the tech happenings around the ‘net this week: Windows 2000 SP3 is available. As Josh says in his pointer to it, there’s not much info on exactly what it does, so I’ll be following my normal “wait and let someone…
I was very excited to see the new release of Tweetdeck, and no not because it integrates with FourSquare now. It’s the global filters that had me excitedly downloading the update as soon as I heard about it. In fact, it was the promise of being able to hide all updates from foursquare from the…
If you’re concerned about how much tracking is being done as you click around on the internet, and you probably should be, one easy thing you can do is grab Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Install it in your browser to enable it to do some automatic detecting and blocking of tracking cookies….
In this case, it wasn’t even that Nest had an insecure device, though that is often open to debate with Internet of Things devices. No, this was all about reusing passwords. “The method used to spy on the Thomases is one of the oldest tricks on the Internet. Hackers essentially look for email addresses and…
As you may know, I decided to give LinkedIn’s publishing platform a try after it was opened up to me, and many others. To further the experiment, I also pushed out links to just about every social network I could, pointing to the LinkedIn piece. I pimped it more than I usually pimp a post…
