Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
theregister.co.uk
Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
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Re: Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
#2Targeted smearing and destroying of one's reputation is quite an old endeavour. Works amazingly well online, too. Don't give up Internet anonymity like some governments want you to.
Re: Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
#3Direct link without lead harvesting nonsense: http://info.digitalshadows.com/rs/457-XEY-671/images/Digital...
This is super lazy, the paper seems like it was produced by a PR drone whose knowledge on the subject was limited to a list of keywords to google.
Re: Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
#4ok but what is the quality control like on all these tools to help do you illegal stuff? Better or worse than normal software.
Is there any open source tools to help you do illegal stuff? Because if you can't see the source I think a good illegal tool moneymaking scheme would be to sell the tools to do illegal stuff and then blackmail the people who did illegal stuff for a part of the money. but that might also be dangerous.
Re: Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
#5Targeted smearing and destroying of one's reputation is quite an old endeavour. Works amazingly well online, too. Don't give up Internet anonymity like some governments want you to.
I don't think Internet anonymity is a thing though.
Even if you make a fully unrelated identity, smearing that identity is enough to discredit your ability to engage online. Sure, you can make another and another, but starting over with zero online credibility is the same thing as losing all your credibility.
Re: Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
#6I gave a talk at Denver startup week last year about the underlying profit incentives tied to fake news and how industry reforms in the way media companies do business could not only benefit the advertisers but also stop Fake news. At the end of the talk I had 3 people ask how they could make fake news to promote their startups. That this has turned into a booming industry surprises me 0%, though it is depressing.
Re: Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
#7Targeted smearing and destroying of one's reputation is quite an old endeavour. Works amazingly well online, too. Don't give up Internet anonymity like some governments want you to.
I don't think Internet anonymity is a thing though. Even if you make a fully unrelated identity, smearing that identity is enough to discredit your ability to engage online. Sure, you can make another and another, but starting over with zero online credibility is the same thing as losing all your credibility.
One of the components of online anonymity is having different identites for different communities. That way if your expiremental political blog goes horribly wrong it doesn't take your professional life or hobby group with it
Re: Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
#8Click baits gonna click bait
Re: Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
#9Targeted smearing and destroying of one's reputation is quite an old endeavour. Works amazingly well online, too. Don't give up Internet anonymity like some governments want you to.
Vide Judge Kavanaugh.
Re: Fake news ‘as a service’ booming among cybercrooks
#10I gave a talk at Denver startup week last year about the underlying profit incentives tied to fake news and how industry reforms in the way media companies do business could not only benefit the advertisers but also stop Fake news. At the end of the talk I had 3 people ask how they could make fake news to promote their startups. That this has turned into a booming industry surprises me 0%, though it is depressing.
Can you recommend some material on this and how to design the incentives properly?