How the 20,699-word iTunes T&Cs became this year’s hottest graphic novel:
It is rare to find someone who has a favourite line in the iTunes terms and conditions, but Robert Sikoryak does. “Oh boy, where is it?” he says, scanning his book, before beaming and reciting: “You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapons.” He chuckles. “It’s pretty startling, isn’t it?”
LED BY FEI-FEI Li, the director of the Stanford University artificial intelligence lab and a newly minted Google employee, a team of academics recently explored a new way of tracking socioeconomic trends across the US. Rather than knocking on doors and asking questions, they pulled more than 50 million photos from Google Street View and fed them into neural networks. The results were promising. Simply by identifying the make, model, and year of automobiles appearing in the photos, the researchers said, their tech could accurately estimate the income, race, education, and voting patterns of citizens in particular precincts.
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Here’s a portrait of Hell:
It’s 2018. An anonymous hacker finds a way to get access to Slack’s servers and decides to make off with everyone’s chat logs and private messages. Then, that person decides to put it all in a 50 gigabyte .zip file and makes it downloadable on Pastebin. Just like that—probably overnight, and without any warning—every bit of petty shit you’ve ever typed into Slack is now the world’s business.
On Thursday, hacker Frans Rosén found a bug that let him—as well as less well-intentioned folks—log into anybody’s Slack account using a malicious web page. Slack fixed the bug within hours. Will it be handled so quickly next time?
That time you and your coworker gabbed about your boss’s bad breath; the DMs you sent about picking up weed for a Friday night out; all the times you complained or boasted about traffic on your site… Everything could get out there.
I can’t say for sure that this will ever happen, but at this point it’s safe to say that it’s a possibility at the very least.
There’s only one thing to do, I guess: Don’t talk trash on Slack.
Source: Vice Magazine
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