An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.
This is wild. Another problem with fudging what used to be a trail is what that means for fingerprinting people online. Especially given recent attempts to take down the Internet Archive. I’m not saying forum histories are/were iron-clad “paper”/e-trails, but they can and do get used for cross-platform profiling.
This is wild. Another problem with fudging what used to be a trail is what that means for fingerprinting people online. Especially given recent attempts to take down the Internet Archive. I’m not saying forum histories are/were iron-clad “paper”/e-trails, but they can and do get used for cross-platform profiling.