Apple claims its App Store is carefully curated so that only the best apps get through. The truth is, the App Store is littered with scams and "fleeceware," which uses fake user ratings to trick customers into paying for something they don't want.
Are the Middle East s electronic armies the most dangerous of all?
They re behind online hate campaigns to intimidate activists, journalists or dissidents. There is no doubt that in some cases, those campaigns have led to murder.
Saudi Arabia s special forces: The country is thought to have special forces conducting online warfare too
There are armies in the Middle East that do not have guns and whose soldiers work online only but that doesn t mean they re not dangerous.
The term electronic armies is commonly used in the Middle East for such forces. The concept is simple, as the internet freedom advocates from Access Now explain. A group of people assume false identities in order to participate in internet forums and social media to send or suppress a specific message.
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Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, the company hired by the Republican-led Arizona state Senate, examine and recount ballots from the 2020 general election on May 3. It s an audit in name only, says one former election security official. It s a threat to the overall confidence of democracy, all in pursuit of continuing a narrative that we know to be a lie.
To Matt Masterson, the review of 2020 ballots from Maricopa County, Ariz., that s underway is performance art or a clown show, and definitely a waste of taxpayer money.
But it s not an audit. It s an audit in name only, says Masterson, a former Department of Homeland Security official who helped lead the federal government s election security preparations leading up to November s election. It s a threat to the overall confidence of democracy, all in pursuit of continuing a narrative that we know to be a lie.