In times of crisis, misinformation and disinformation take advantage of panic—something we’re seeing with the sheer amount of fake news around the coronavirus pandemic. But with a medical crisis like this, false information can prove deadly. Considering that there’s so much unreliable information on the virus and its resulting disease, how do you know what […]
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Google has launched a website dedicated to COVID-19. It contains a wealth of information and resources all about the illness, giving everyone a one-stop shop to visit when they want to learn more about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. With COVID-19 spreading around the world, controlling the flow of information about the illness is a challenge. […]
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Programs that read information from websites, or web crawlers, have all kinds of useful applications. You can scrape for stock information, sports scores, text from a Twitter account, or pull prices from shopping websites. Writing these web crawling programs is easier than you might think. Python has a great library for writing scripts that extract […]
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Almost everyone has some harmless piece of personal information floating around on the internet. Now, it’s almost unavoidable. But it’s a completely different story when someone writes something libelous about you or exposes a sensitive piece of information. If you find false or private data on the web, you need to learn how to remove […]
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This is a time when governments across the world are getting more secretive and difficult to trust. So the greatest tool the common man can have is his freedom to demand information. A little bit of it can come from declassified documents and un-redacted files. And some from the FOIA. Leaks from whistle-blowers and informants […]
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According to the Department of Justice, identity theft cost victims more than household burglary, motor theft, and property theft combined. It can have a significant consequence for victims, and nobody should experience the stress that it causes. Let’s explore the 10 pieces of information that thieves use to steal identities. What Do Scammers Need to […]
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