by Greg Scott | Jul 9, 2023 | Cybersecurity
Back in 2019, I followed somebody on Twitter and they tried to entice me with a private message sex reference. Happens all the time – surely it’s not somebody probing to groom me – must be my masculine physique. Yeah, in my dreams. 🙂 But I answered...
by Greg Scott | May 23, 2023 | Slice of Life
This story illustrates how the power dynamics in the traditional publishing industry are out of whack. I doubt this will change any time soon. As I write this in late May, 2023, I’m querying my new novel, Traffic School. For people outside the publishing...
by Greg Scott | May 7, 2023 | Politics and Religion
Anger and denial are stages of grief. Duh! That thought slipped into my brain after a diehard Trump fan responded with a burst of irrational anger when I tweeted about my blog post on the Fox News settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. She claimed a PhD in...
by Greg Scott | May 1, 2023 | Cybersecurity
The very first thing I learned about cybersecurity was, learn to think like an attacker. And since online grooming is a cybersecurity problem, if I want to to understand how today’s traffickers find online grooming victims, then I need to think like a...
by Greg Scott | Apr 29, 2023 | Cybersecurity
Internet Viral Lies and Public Indoctrination In mid January, 2021, a few days after internet viral lies influenced a mob to attack the US Capitol, I wrote a blog post about information warfare. I made the case that internet viral lies are at the heart of...
by Greg Scott | Apr 22, 2023 | Politics and Religion
I did not set out to bait anyone, but sometimes material just falls into my lap. I advertised, If You’re Fox News, Sometimes You Want Passive Voice on Twitter and fell right into the cross-hairs of a diehard right wing fan. The dialog was, well, educational. I’m...
by Greg Scott | Apr 21, 2023 | Politics and Religion
The Fox News settlement with Dominion Voting Systems was everywhere on the news on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Well, almost everywhere. Fox News didn’t have much to say about it. But everyone else had plenty to say. Fox agreed to issue the statement in the picture...
by Greg Scott | Mar 9, 2023 | Politics and Religion
Does anyone still believe the lie that Trump really won the 2020 presidential election? In the weeks after the election, an unprecedented avalanche of lies cascaded around the internet. Millions believed that the Chinese bribed Georgia election officials, a dead...
by Greg Scott | Sep 25, 2022 | Politics and Religion
This blog post is sort-of about Trump, but it’s really about cognitive dissonance and clinging to beliefs long after facts prove they’re based on lies. Back in 2006, I signed up for Republican email updates. In the Trump era, they’ve been coming fast...
by Greg Scott | Jul 28, 2022 | Phish collection
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