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    How To: Social Engineering A Whole Country During An Election

    Stu Sjouwerman | Mar 20, 2018
    CA_Whistleblower_Chris_Wylie

    Check out this fascinating 13 min interview with Christopher Wylie, a former research director at Cambridge Analytica, who had a copy of a dataset with 50 million Facebook profiles. He ends off with: "I approach anything with a healthy dose of skepticism".... I would agree! 

    Wylie details how Cambridge Analytics came into existence and how it used those 50m profiles to create a culture-changing data machine. Social Engineering on a country-wide scale, politically weaponizing data. Very instructive, scary, and a short manual for bad guys how to do spear phishing at scale:  https://youtu.be/FXdYSQ6nu-M

    Cambridge Analytica just suspended CEO Alexander Nix amid this Facebook data scandal. More background at an article at The Register: 

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/18/facebook_confirms_cambridge_analytica_stole_its_data_its_a_plot_claims_former_director/

     

    Topics: Social Engineering

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