«Collins welcomed the cooperation, but noted that Facebook has still not provided all the information it promised. “I look forward to them sharing with us, amongst other information: the exact number of accounts that they have suspended; how they are resourcing their fight against bots; their methodology of how they identify fake accounts; and how they determine what country those accounts come from».
Mois : mars 2018 (Page 5 of 6)
«Until the internet community is able to adjust and make significant progress on memcached servers, we should expect terabit attacks to continue».
Source : NETSCOUT Arbor Confirms 1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack; The Terabit Attack Era Is Upon Us
«Par-delà la fiction collectivement admise que le harcèlement du web est pratiqué par des ados inconscients, des personnes qui n’oseraient dire à voix haute l’inanité de leurs commentaires, Philippe est ce roc imperturbable qui ne bouge pas. Quand tu as soixante ans, que tu fais ça pendant des années, tu es la preuve qu’il n’y a pas de profil type de harceleur».
Source : Le cyber-harceleur était un retraité – Pop culture – Numerama
«Les prétentions à la suzeraineté de ces plates-formes, pour reprendre la formule de Alain Supiot (2) dans Gouverner par les nombres, doit être combattue par la souveraineté des États (comme le fait le RGPD) pour contraindre ces plates-formes à remettre dans le domaine public toutes les données et traces qui sont à leur disposition, données produites par le public et qui méritent d’être reprises, traitées et contrôlées par des organismes scientifiques publics avant d’être mises à disposition des chercheurs dans des conditions précises comme c’est le cas pour les recensements (et donc avec des limites). Les principes de la science ouverte risquent fort de rester des vœux pieux si on ne s’attaque pas dès maintenant à cette prédation des données par l’oligopole de l’attention que constituent les GAFAMT» – Dominique Boullier.
Source : Facebook et la recherche : le « quasi État » | InternetActu.net
«Finding the killer apps of the decentralized internet will take more time, people, and money than have been thrown at the problem so far. Pakman says that societal attitudes to power and big tech companies appear to be in the right place to deliver them. ‘There’s massive distrust in centralized everything,’ he says. ‘We don’t trust the government, don’t go to church or synagogue, don’t trust banks and now we no longer trust tech companies.’»
Source : The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches | WIRED
«One of Andrew Keen most intriguing arguments compares the power of the US tech giants today and the motor industry in the 1950s. At that time, the big three US manufacturers, Ford, GM and Chrysler, were busily churning out flashy and popular cars and controlled 96 per cent of the US market between them. Then in 1965 a young lawyer named Ralph Nader wrote Unsafe at Any Speed, assailing the car manufacturers for turning out lethal products that prioritised style over safety and created carnage on the country’s roads».
Source : The utopia project: can Silicon Valley fix the future?
«The Russian meddling machine has been focusing on Italy in recent months, conducting a disinformation campaign on the migration situation in order to drum up support for radical parties ahead of the general elections scheduled for Sunday».
« Le groupe Canal+ réaffirme son souhait de pouvoir diffuser les chaînes gratuites du groupe TF1, mais n’entend pas payer pour la diffusion de ces chaînes. Canal+ fait valoir que TF1, TMC, TFX, TF1 Séries Films et LCI occupent des fréquences nationales relevant du domaine public qui leur ont été octroyées gratuitement. Par ailleurs, TF1 bénéficie d’avantages réglementaires propres aux chaînes gratuites, dont la possibilité de diffuser en exclusivité des événements sportifs majeurs, comme la Coupe du monde de football, qui doivent être accessibles à tous ».
«In a conversation with Mashable’s Kerry Flynn, Hariri insisted that he intended to make it easier to delete an account at some point down the line. And anyway, he noted, what if someone who asked to delete their account didn’t really want to delete their account? ‘Today they send us a request to do so, » he said. « What’s happened in the past many times for us is that people change their minds.’»
Source : How to delete your Vero account
«On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to date—and it used an increasingly popular DDoS method, no botnet required. GitHub briefly struggled with intermittent outages as a digital system assessed the situation. Within 10 minutes it had automatically called for help from its DDoS mitigation service, Akamai Prolexic. Prolexic took over as an intermediary, routing all the traffic coming into and out of GitHub, and sent the data through its scrubbing centers to weed out and block malicious packets. After eight minutes, attackers relented and the assault dropped off».
Source : A 1.3Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded | WIRED