The Do-Gooder Ploy
“Hey, wanna collab?” It’s the social-media version of “You up?” but, as our investigation shows, more insidious and may be preying upon your desire to create social change.
By Kaitlin Menza and Illustrations by Laura Callaghan Mar 11, 2021
In October 2020, someone or something slid into Nicole Blair’s Instagram DMs.
“We would love to collaborate with you as an ambassador,” read the message sent by Made With Melanin, a company selling T-shirts, jewelry, and key chains emblazoned with phrases like “Black Lives Matter.” “We would love to share a discount with you for everything on the site.”
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Student Data Security: A Call to Arms for K-12 Jim Pulliam, CIO, Orange County Public Schools
Jim Pulliam, CIO, Orange County Public Schools
Protecting personal data is a way of life for the most organizations and individuals today. Threats are on the rise and growing in sophistication. At the same time, more data is shared online and over cloud services.
But for K-12 schools, the threat is more extreme. The public sector is behind the curve when it comes to protecting data. In addition, schools don’t often have the budgets or expertise to develop enterprise-level data security programs. Finally, the bad actors, working to threaten data security and steal identities and private information, have caught on to this and the number and severity of threats in the education space are growing.
On Jan. 1, Chase Tkach chair of the Orleans County, New York, Libertarian Party, also known as porn actor Molly Smash uploaded two fast-flashing, dubstep-tuned theatrical trailers to their Pornhub channel. The videos were promoting cheap, untraceable, 3D-printed, plastic, DIY, semi-automatic guns. That’s because Tkach likes guns, specifically unregulated ones. And homemade guns are so hot right now.
People have been making 3D-printed guns at home since 2013. They used to be pretty low-tech, capable of one shot before busting. But they’ve come a long way in the past few years. Now you can print untraceable AR-15s, AKMs, semi-automatic pistols, and more no serial number, no registration, no background check. Up until recently, however, the best you could do with a semi-automatic rifle