David LaFontaine's
Sips from the Firehose
A blog that attempts to distill the internet into one easy-to-gulp mental beverage.
Ahhh! Tasty.
DDoS Attacks for $2/day: Researching the DarkNet
Hackers hire out their botnets for DDoS attacks for as little as $2/day I've been working on a series of articles on the threats to activists, independent journalists and innocent bystanders targeted by trolls that lurk on the web. This has led me to some of the...
Internet Security for Creative Professionals – The Basics
Hackers want in. Don't make it easy for them. With all the controversies swirling around hacked emails and cyber-threats, I was asked to come in to USC-Annenberg, and speak to the students about what they need to know about security. Basically, I had to come in do a...
Experimental VR Art Project at Google’s Venice HQ
Depending upon your tolerance for the sight of people wearing virtual reality helmets all craning their necks and looking about themselves, this video is either really charming or really alarming. https://youtu.be/rkYhBwLmf3E Thanks to Kluge interactive for the invite...
The UX of Decent Online Discussions: Twitter’s New Troll-Killing Algo
Twitter is rolling out three new tools to crack down on trolls, spam & abuse Meanwhile, there's also "Project Coral" - backed by NY Times, Washington Post and Mozilla - rolling out Talk and Ask, aimed at making comment threads a way to connect with an audience -...
Guccifer hacker is back; claims not to be Russian
Guccifer hacker - the one who leaked DNC emails - taunts US government I guess this is the world we live in now. With increasing attention being paid to the way that hacks of formerly secure and private information is destablilizing governments around the world, the...
Solutions to Fake News 1: Deny Lie Merchants Access to Premium Ad Revenue
Is a market-based solution the best way to solve the fake news problem? There's been a sudden realization outside the cozy confines of digital business model nerds, that the open nature of the web has allowed an entire class of scammers to establish themselves, grow,...