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The interplay between Russian disinformation and hacking

2 pointsby Varchtover 6 years ago

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forapurposeover 6 years ago
While content has always been assumed to be outside the purview of security, I think there are at least two ways to look at it:<p>1. Of recently developed Internet technologies, disinformation is seems undoubtedly the most world-changing. Democratic government is literally falling in some places, fascism is rising, as well as hate and oppression. That&#x27;s orders of magnitude more impact than AI, for example, which gives us facial recognition and, potentially, self-driving cars.<p>2. In other contexts, such as some business databases, the accuracy (completeness, correctness, consistency) is taken very seriously. We thought it wasn&#x27;t a serious issue with unstructured data and non-commercial communication, but clearly we were wrong.