[Air-L] (edit) Re: Fwd: facebook user db (Searchable) available fordownload
Richard Forno
rforno at infowarrior.org
Tue Jul 27 07:56:51 PDT 2010
... and no, my last note was not meant as a reaction to anyone's postings/sentiment here. Rather, I was referring to general media/industry discussions/statements over this stuff. (Just so none of the AIR'ers think I was referring to them.) No confusion meant!
-rick
On Jul 27, 2010, at 10:51 , Richard Forno wrote:
>
> Aaaaand with that, the debate over the utility/ethics of disclosing cybersecurity/privacy vulnerabilities rears its head again -- as it usually does around this time each summer. I've already seen several MSM articles rehashing those issues/concerns over the past few days in advance of the Blackhat/Defcon events in Vegas this week, with the usual predictable debates and soundbytes on both sides of this issue. Same issues/concerns, different year.
>
> I'm sure it's not the only such disclosure that will be made this week, too, either at the cons or elsewhere.
>
> -rick
>
>
>
> On Jul 27, 2010, at 10:41 , Dana Rotman wrote:
>
>> " it wouldn't be right for me to keep it private".
>> Oh, wouldn't it?
>> Perhaps, just perhaps, he could have written a blog post about the potential
>> privacy breach and warn other users, instead of digging deeper and spreading
>> it wider than anyone ever intended?
>> [just asking....]
>>
>> ~ Dana
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> Dana Rotman, PhD candidate
>> University of Maryland iSchool
>> danarotman.com
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Baym, Nancy <nbaym at ku.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> "... and so I decided to release it into the wild as a torrent I encourage
>>> you to download"
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Michael Zimmer
>>> Sent: Tue 7/27/2010 10:31 AM
>>> To: aoir list
>>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Fwd: facebook user db (Searchable) available
>>> fordownload
>>>
>>> This line is precious:
>>>
>>> "But as I thought more about it, and talked to other people, I realized
>>> that this is a scary privacy issue."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Zimmer, PhD
>>> Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
>>> (Interim Undergraduate Program Director)
>>> Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
>>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>>> e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
>>> w: www.michaelzimmer.org
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 27, 2010, at 5:20 AM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
>>>
>>>> well... sort of :)
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.skullsecurity.org/blog/?p=887
>>>>>
>>>>> don't you feel better now?
>>>>> -r.
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy Hunsinger
>>>> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
>>>> Political Science
>>>> Virginia Tech
>>>> Information Ethics Fellow
>>>> Center for Information Policy Research
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Everything you can imagine is real.
>>>> --Pablo Picasso
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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