Aaron Parecki

And if you don't think your product can be used for harassment, check with users!! You'd be SHOCKED how many ways various apps I use are used to target/harass me. @triketora and I share a bunch of real examples on this @ThePracticalDev podcast 🎧: https://dev.to/devteam/we-need-to-fix-anti-harassment-tooling-with-tracy-chou-and-chloe-condon-2b4j

The BazaCall campaigns forgo malicious links or attachments in favor of phone numbers that users are misled into calling. Call center agents instruct users to download BazarLoader. The lack of malicious elements challenges typical spam detection methods: https://msft.it/6016nWc3m

This article on the sense of betrayal that young people feel, at the moment when they discover how much of their private lives their parents have exposed to the world, is unforgettable. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/when-kids-realize-their-whole-life-already-online/582916/

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It's funny how the notion of an individual carbon footprint - a bit of nonsense dreamed up by fossil fuel companies to shift responsibility for climate change onto their own customers - has come back into vogue on adverts and stuff in the last year or so.