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NYT Reports: Facebookery of the Highest Order

December 21, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Facebookery, Exploitation, Greed, Corporate Corruption, Death of Privacy, Information Security

Within the 18th of December's Facebook reportage on the pages of the New York Times, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Michael LaForgia and Nicholas Confessore have written a classic piece dé resistance of investigative journalism. In which, we learn the bitter truth of machinations and shenanigans committed by Facebook executives in their efforts to satiate their founder's greed, and the executive ranks desperate need to wrest the power of the interwebs and make of it a monster fed by the Facebaggery of the company's Mark 'I-Didn't-Do-It' Zuckerberg. Just shameful, and worthy of an opportune long sentence in the hoosegow, eh?

"The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents obtained by The New York Times. The records, generated in 2017 by the company’s internal system for tracking partnerships, provide the most complete picture yet of the social network’s data-sharing practices. They also underscore how personal data has become the most prized commodity of the digital age, traded on a vast scale by some of the most powerful companies in Silicon Valley and beyond." - via the New YorK Times reporters Gabriel J.X. Dance, Michael LaForgia and Nicholas Confessore

December 21, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Facebookery, Exploitation, Greed, Corporate Corruption, Death of Privacy, Information Security

Crowdfence, Bug and Exploit Mercantile →

April 26, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Business of Security, Bugs, Exploitation, Information Security

Peter Cao, writing at 9to5Mac, has penned a particularly interesting article, detailing Crowdfence, an Emirati based company, poised to garner beucoup dinero in the Windows, Android, iOS and macOS bug and exploitation marketplace, the legal marketplace that is; ostensibly selling to governments, law enforcement and intelligence agancies. Today's MustRead!

April 26, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Business of Security, Bugs, Exploitation, Information Security