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This is installment #2 of our four part security series, which describes the four most important security tools for you to own and use. All are free. The first installment of the series is here.
This is one of our rare articles where we'll recommend strongly that you both watch the short video and read the entire blog text.
Let's explain messaging security by asking one simple question, then examining its implications.
What if you had sent Hillary a totally innocent email?
You are now a person of interest because of Hillary's bad security practices, attempts at evasion, and probably obstruction of justice. You are probably not as privileged against prosecution or investigation as Hillary is...
One of the reasons we like toolboxes (whether online or in the household or at work) is because it puts all our tools in one place. Open the toolbox, and all the tools we want are right there. But social media people all too rarely arrange their tools so they are all easy to get to, so your project advances if you build a toolbox that's easy to get access and use for your social media activists. You can go play with the one we discuss in this video! Yep, click it, play with it, then get it and use it on your own NB site.
The stormy tempests in teapots fall back further today as details emerge about how well the Cambridge Analytica (CA) models actually worked: "correlation between predicted and actual scores ... was around 30 percent (emphasis mine) for all the personality dimensions" according to Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist/developer who actually designed the CA model. Over 270,000 people were paid to use an app called 'This Is Your Digital Life' and it was this app that actually harvested most of the data. He says he didn't know how CA would apply the data.
