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Facebook’s Sexual Solicitation Policy is a Honeypot for Trolls Facebook just quietly adopted a policy that could push thousands of innocent people off of the platform. The new “ sexual solicitation ” rules forbid pornography and other explicit sexual content (which was already functionally banned under a different statute ), but they don’t stop there: they also ban “implicit sexual solicitation” , including the use of sexual slang, the solicitation of nude images, discussion of “sexual partner preference,” and even expressing interest in sex . That’s not an exaggeration: the new policy bars “vague suggestive statements, such as ‘looking for a good time tonight.’” It wouldn’t be a stretch to think that asking “ Netflix and chill? ” could run afoul of this policy. The new rules come with a baffling justification, seemingly blurring the line between sexual exploitation and plain old doing it: [P]eople use Facebook to discuss and draw attention to sexual violence and exploitation. ...

If you’ve been enjoying all the big soccer games (or football, depending on where you’re located) on television, you’ve likely got engineers at Akamai Technologies to thank, not to mention plenty of data centers around the globe. This revelation came to me when reading a recent Boston Globe story about how Akamai is keeping tabs on all the action from its Broadcast Operations Control Center in Cambridge, Mass. Human beings on the front lines at Akamai Akamai is in the content delivery business, ensuring that its customers get reliable, speedy service from their Internet connections. It does this with a series of servers and caching devices located at data centers around the globe, which enable it to serve up content locally to users – thereby dramatically reducing latency and response times. I’m sure Akamai has plenty of good management technology in place to help it ensure reliable network performance. In addition, as the Globe story details, for the world soccer tournament it...

Code Review Isn’t Evil. Security Through Obscurity Is. On January 25th, Reuters reported that software companies like McAfee, SAP, and Symantec allow Russian authorities to review their source code, and that “this practice potentially jeopardizes the security of computer networks in at least a dozen federal agencies.” The article goes on to explain what source code review looks like and which companies allow source code reviews, and reiterates that “allowing Russia to review the source code may expose unknown vulnerabilities that could be used to undermine U.S. network defenses.” The spin of this article implies that requesting code reviews is malicious behavior. This is simply not the case. Reviewing source code is an extremely common practice conducted by regular companies as well as software and security professionals to ensure certain safety guarantees of the software being installed. The article also notes that “Reuters has not found any instances where a source code revi...