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Stuff infosec people have known about for many years continues to break through into the public as if it's something new.
by api 9y ago
Stuff infosec people have known about for many years continues to break through into the public as if it's something new.
- pmlnr 9y agoEven worse: stuff people involved in IT had been screaming about for years, but always got dismissed as paranoid nerds.
- hkmurakami 9y agoI am often reminded of a friend's quip: "Stallman may be crazy, but he is not wrong." Emblematic of the overall dynamic between IT insiders and the general public.
- Dirlewanger 9y agoYeah, I find this absolutely hilarious and overwhelmingly disheartening that it took a data firm connected to Trump for the mainstream media outlets to give a shit. No one cared that Obama had the same strategies in 2012, or Hillary did what Trump did (to a much more impressive degree with CTR and friends) in 2016.
- tunap 9y agoFrom 2004. 3rd part is of particular relevance. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/
- dboreham 9y agoThis has been going on offline since long before the modern Internet. I first heard about it in 1990.