{"637327":{"#nid":"637327","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"So Much for the Decentralized Internet:  A recent Twitter hack probably didn\u2019t scare you. Here\u2019s why it should.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDigital Media Professor Ian Bogost wrote \u0026quot;So Much for the Decentralized Internet: A recent Twitter hack probably didn\u0026rsquo;t scare you. Here\u0026rsquo;s why it should\u0026quot; for \u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E, July 26, 2020.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe hack makes Twitter look incompetent, and at a bad time; its advertising revenues are falling, and the company is\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/07\/23\/tech\/twitter-subscription-earnings\/index.html\u0022\u003Escrambling to respond\u003C\/a\u003E. It also underscores the impoverished cybersecurity at tech firms, which\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scmagazine.com\/home\/security-news\/insider-threats\/twitter-hack-is-a-reminder-of-the-dangers-of-unfettered-employee-access\/\u0022\u003Eprovide\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;some employees with nearly limitless control over user accounts and data\u0026mdash;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-twitter-cyber-access-exclusive\/exclusive-more-than-1000-people-at-twitter-had-ability-to-aid-hack-of-accounts-idUSKCN24O34E\u0022\u003Eas many as 1,000\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Twitter employees reportedly had access to the internal tools that were compromised. But the stakes are higher, too. Though much smaller than Facebook in terms of its sheer number of users, Twitter is where real-time information gets published online, especially on news and politics,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blog.pixelfish.com.au\/twitter-vs-facebook-vs-instagram-vs-linkedin\u0022\u003Efrom a small number\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of power users. That makes the service\u0026rsquo;s vulnerability particularly worrisome; it has become an infrastructure for live information.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2020\/07\/twitter-hack-decentralized-internet\/614593\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2020-07-28 17:59:53","changed_gmt":"2020-07-28 18:00:28","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2020\/07\/twitter-hack-decentralized-internet\/614593\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"599763":{"id":"599763","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1513011274","gmt_created":"2017-12-11 16:54:34","changed":"1539182171","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:36:11","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"228650","name":"NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2519019,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/NEW_Preferred2018_IanBogost.jpg?itok=cy9ipBQS"}}},"media_ids":["599763"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"124","name":"Digital Media"},{"id":"185404","name":"Twitter hack"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}