This post builds upon an observation from our previous quote: “virtually all European Union member state ccTLDs that enforce nexus restrictions also have massively lower levels of abuse [than the .US ccTLD] due to …
Governance
Peering into the .US Domain cesspool shows governance failure in reflection
This article began as a review of phishing and oversight failures in .US domains. It awakened my memory of Paul Vixie’s prescient 2010 admonition to ‘take back DNS’ and assertion of the simple …
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Max Headroom 2.0 – Part 2: AI-Generated Content Detection and Impact
In our previous post we reviewed the findings of NewsGuard’s report on the use of AI-generated content by news and information websites. In this post we’ll analyze, with help from DomainTools and ChatGPT: new …
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Max Headroom 2.0: Newsbots, Fake News, Fake Trust, Scam Likely
NewsGuard’s recent report on the rise of AI-generated newsbots flashed me back to the 1985 cyberpunk character Max Headroom, generally recognized as the first computer-generated TV talking head. [1,4] But while Max Headroom really wasn’t …
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Risk Reminder for US Advisory Firms in China
The recent raid [1] on the Shanghai offices of Bain & Company by Chinese authorities serves as a reminder that U.S. advisory firms operating in China face unique and high inherent risks due to …