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I see those as BIG pieces of information! The number of people that I "might know" because we've exchanged email with the same person is horrifying in this cont
by rhizome 7y ago
I see those as BIG pieces of information! The number of people that I "might know" because we've exchanged email with the same person is horrifying in this context. There's a dystopic story to be written (which often means it already has been) about law enforcement using this second-order conntection as Reasonable Suspicion, a "why did we find your business card in this bad guy's wallet?" connection.
- azernik 7y agoThis is not a dystopian fantasy; it's exactly how intelligence agencies map out terrorist groups' and foreign militaries' structures online. Israel is supposedly particularly good at this kind of analysis, but I'm sure other countries are doing it.
- lonelappde 7y agoAnd all the "males of fighting age"
- azernik 7y agoWe can get heuristics with lower false positives these days.
- rhizome 7y agoYou have to wonder what kinds of non-employee access are a part of the Facebook web application. That is, perhaps Israel's edge is that they have an (made-up) Investigator version of FB when they log in. I figure everything down the left aside on FB corresponds to a permissions bit for each entry, so maybe some classes of user get some really fun items over there.