Preston McAfee @mcafee@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
Preston McAfee
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I'm feeling genuinely depressed today seeing so many journalists, researchers and civil liberties and privacy advocates continuing to support Shitter, a platform that has just sued the ADL for doing nothing more than publishing research on antisemitism. I just don't understand. When people who I thought had principles can't stand up against a platform that actively threatens their very existence, what reason is there for optimism that the worst case scenarios hanging over us like the Sword of Damocles won't fall?
I'm sorry to my friends, sources and journalism colleagues for sounding like a broken record. Maybe I should just let it go. My non-stop criticism comes from a place of deep desperation and fear of what's likely about to happen (Trump in the Whitehouse seems entirely possible). I feel despondent seeing so many influential people continue to use Shitter.
Preston McAfee
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This article from @dangoodin about "juice jacking" is the kind of article which make me happy to be an Ars Technica subscriber.
Actual research and nuanced information, while still making it clear that general fearmongering is unwarrented.
I also really appricate that the article includes the following, which is really key in the disucssion:
"The problem with the warnings coming out of the FCC and FBI is that they divert attention away from bigger security threats, such as weak passwords and the failure to install security updates. They create unneeded anxiety and inconvenience that run the risk of people simply giving up trying to be secure."
