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Roland Gesthuizen

Spies blow their cover through the internet - 0 views

  • Social engineering is the art of manipulating people into divulging confidential information, either through the introduction of malware into computer systems through carefully crafted, personalised emails - spear phishing, obtaining access to security codes - or by orchestrating social contact with intelligence targets.
  • the abundance of personal and career information available on the internet posed a clear security risk for both government and the corporate sector, especially companies engaged in national security work or high technology activities
  • Defence Department security instructions require that ''when engaged in online forums … Defence personnel must exercise professional judgment to ensure no information breaches operational security''.
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    "HUNDREDS of former and some present Australian spies have posted information about their employment with intelligence agencies on the internet in what security experts have called ''a gift for foreign espionage''. "
Roland Gesthuizen

Technology is completely upending the traditional idea of the self. - 0 views

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    "But just as changing the early European perspective on the universe had deep social and cultural reverberations, technologically driven disruption of our "self," and challenges to what we believe to be our fundamental identity, are potentially very disturbing psychologically and destabilizing socially"
Roland Gesthuizen

Wolfram Alpha Drills Deep into Facebook Data - 0 views

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    "Back in January, when Wolfram Alpha launched an updated version of its Personal Analytics for Facebook module, the self-billed "computational knowledge engine" asked users to contribute their detailed Facebook data for research purposes. The researchers at Wolfram Alpha, having crunched all that information, are now offering some data on how users interact with Facebook."
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