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On web’s 28th anniversary, its creator Tim Berners-Lee takes aim at fake news

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Today, on the 28th anniversary of the web, its creator warned of three trends that must die for the web to be all that it should be. One of those is the spreading of fake news.

On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted his original proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web. 28 years later, in an open letter, Berners-Lee said that in the last 12 months, “I’ve become increasingly worried about three new trends, which I believe we must tackle in order for the web to fulfill its true potential as a tool which serves all of humanity.”

  1. We’ve lost control of our personal data.
  2. It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the web.
  3. Political advertising online needs transparency and understanding.

As it stands now for most of the web, people get free content in exchange for their personal data. Once companies have our data, we no longer have control over with whom it is shared. We can’t pick and choose what gets shared; it’s generally “all or nothing.”

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Blackhole exploit kit creator Paunch sent behind bars – ZDNet

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Blackhole exploit kit creator Paunch sent behind bars
ZDNet
The hacker behind the Blackhole exploit kit has reportedly been sentenced to seven years in prison. Symantec. The hacker behind the infamous Blackhole and Cool exploit kits has been sentenced to seven years in prison. This week, the Zamoskvoretskiy …
'Blackhole' Exploit Kit Author Gets 7 YearsKrebs on Security
Russia sends exploit kit author to the GULAG for seven yearsThe Register

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Ransomware creator apologizes for ‘sleeper’ attack, releases decryption keys

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Last week, a new strain of ransomware called Locker was activated after having been sitting silently on infected PCs. Security firm KnowBe4 called Locker a “sleeper” campaign that, when the malware’s creator “woke it up,” encrypted the infected devices’ files and charged roughly $ 24 in exchange for the decryption keys.

See also: ‘Sleeper’ ransomware laid dormant on infected PCs until this week

This week, an internet user claiming to be the creator of Locker publicly apologized for the campaign and appears to have released the decryption keys for all the devices that fell victim to it, KnowBe4 reported in an alert issued today. Locker’s creator released this message in a PasteBin post:

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Why Ubuntu’s creator still invests his fortune in an unprofitable company

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Canonical

When Mark Shuttleworth founded Canonical in 2004, he made a promise to his staff: “You can count on me for two years.”

The idea was “to get the team to relax” and focus on the newly created Ubuntu operating system. Shuttleworth wanted to eliminate the pressure of becoming a blockbuster business overnight.

He issued no ultimatums. And although Shuttleworth wanted Canonical to be self-sustaining, he didn’t threaten to abandon Ubuntu if it lost money. “When we started, I told the team two years,” he recently told Ars. “I didn’t say, ’till it’s profitable.’ I said, ‘You can count on me for two years. What I want to really see is evidence of a clear path to success and really interesting disruption.'”

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