They’re coming

for our brainz nowSJ, 2017

SOCIAL ENGINEERING

AT SCALE

Facebook group total_shares interactions numberof posts

wordcount

Facebook.com/Blacktivists 103,767,792 6,182,835 500+ 15349

Facebook.com/Txrebels 102,950,151 3,453,143 500+

Facebook.Com/MuslimAmerica 71,355,895 2,128,875 500+ 6892

Facebook.Com/Patriototus 51,139,860 4,438,745 500+ 53782

Facebook.Com/Secured.Borders 5,600,136 1,592,771 500+ 53850

Facebook.Com/Lgtbun 5,187,494 1,262,386 500+ 15020

ECOSYSTEM: INTERNET

ENDPOINTS: WETWARE

VULNERABILITIES

CHANNELS

PAYLOADS

Misinformation Disinformation Abuse “Normal”

Accidental /

sloppy untruths

Deliberate /

focussed

untruths

Focussed

opinion / facts

Hate speech

Bullying

Doxxing

Everything else

THREAT LEVELS

RESPONSES

FAKE HUNTERS (IRMA)

ADTECH

MEDIA

POLITICS I

POLITICS II

POLITICS III

SOCIAL NETWORKS

HACKERS

Build stuff! Add extra machine learning!

USEFUL EARLIER WORK

(Those Darned Telegraph

Operators…)

BIG DATA’S FOURTH V

WIKIPEDIA

HACKERS, OSINT

AI AND AUTONOMY

THIS CHANGES INTERNET?

PEOPLE SHIFTS

FUNDING SHIFTS

BOTS AREN’T GOING AWAY

NEW HACK LAYER /

INDUSTRY FORMING

PROBABLY INCLUDES

SURVIVAL OF THE

TRUTHIEST?

THE END

@bodaceaca

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