Meta recently has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over a decade as part of a legal settlement over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were designed in ways that contributed to social media addiction among children and teenagers. Strong evidence exists that a subset of adolescents exhibit behaviours resembling addiction: compulsive use, inability to […]
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The Hassles of 2FA and MFA
Sure, cybercrime is all pervasive nowadays and with ever more of us increasingly interacting with the world digitally security is paramount. So we all are used to Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) as far as for example and probably most importantly our online banking is concerned. And don’t get me wrong: Of course […]
Beware of doxers!
Doxing, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is ‘the action of finding or publishing private information about someone on the internet without their permission’, information which all too often then ends up for sale on the darknet. Many areas of our daily lives have been digitalised in recent years, and with this comes an increasing awareness […]
Shackled democracy – social media
After the events of January 6 in Washington and President Trump‘s half-hearted disavowal of the violence it was only a question of time until Twitter, Facebook and all the other social media sites would take action. And rightly so, although I will miss Ex-President Trump‘s tweets, not for their insightful nature but for their entertainment […]
