Presented at
CactusCon 11 (2023),
Jan. 28, 2023, 6 p.m.
(60 minutes).
Two tech reporters roast the worst tech reporting of 2022 for the fourth year! This year, we have several stories on the grill, but we’ll also discuss when sometimes stories that seem iffy are technically correct, but demonstrate the inherent biases of any human being writing things down. Additionally, we’ll explore the pitfalls of “parachute reporting” and why it’s important for journalists to be familiar with and familiar to the communities they report on. We’ll also take a look at old mistakes repeated in the cybersecurity beat and speculate about what could have gone wrong. Additionally, we’ll go over how your employer may be doing damage in feeding sensationalist narratives into the media ecosystem–the call is coming from inside the house!
Presenters:
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Yael Grauer
- product manager & investigative tech reporter
Yael Grauer is an investigative tech reporter covering online privacy and security, digital freedom and mass surveillance. For her day job, she manages Security Planner, a free, easy-to-use guide to staying safer online. She’s written for Ars Technica, the Intercept, WIRED, Motherboard, Slate, Wirecutter, OneZero and other publications. She’s co-organized events and spoken publicly about digital security, source protection, ethics, VPNs, the audio capabilities of doorbell cameras, and more. She holds a Master of Mass Communication degree from ASU, which was an interesting way to kill time between DEF CONs.
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huertanix
- Digital Security Trainer at Freedom of the Press Foundation
David Huerta is a Digital Security Trainer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), where he trains journalists in privacy-enhancing technology to empower a free press. He’s taught hundreds of trainings across the world and organizes the an annual series of workshops on digital security at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) conference. He's written for Motherboard, The Outline and FPF’s own security blog. He also dropped out of ASU in 2010 to co-found HeatSync Labs, Arizona’s first hackerspace.
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