Sentences with phrase «for nefarious»

For all I know he's a stalker using RSVP for nefarious purposes.

DeRosa notes that with all the high - profile hacks within the last two years, targeting companies like LinkedIn, Dropbox, DocuSign, Google, and Yahoo, it's likely that your data is up for sale on a section of the internet that is not indexed by search engines, and is often used for nefarious purposes.

Seeking reasons, you cast about for nefarious plots, forgotten promises or old enemies, your search hopefully culminating in a moment of clarity when it all comes together.

A «Catfish» is someone online who is portraying themselves falsely, pretending to be someone they're not, sometimes for childish reasons and sometimes for nefarious reasons.

Any use of PA claims for nefarious purposes is wrong.

It is entirely possible that your LinkedIn account could be compromised for nefarious purposes and according to some reports, it is quite easy to accomplish.

As interesting as these card readers are, it worries me how easy it is becoming for nefarious types to steal our credit card data.

The Swiss Army Knife of cryptocurrency platforms, our collection of features and smart contracts can be used to provide solutions for hundreds of different decentralized service use - cases directly on the blockchain and our hardened smart contracts can not be compromised for nefarious purposes like some turing - complete platforms.

Android TVs could let cybercriminals record private conversations for nefarious purposes, thanks to a relatively simple exploit.

When used carefully, like FIAT, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can be used for nefarious purposes.

The information in the repositories showed data of a sensitive nature that could potentially have been exploited or misused for nefarious purposes, according to UpGuard.

To conclude, Gorman expressed his concern for the nefarious activities that Bitcoin's increased anonymity encourages.

While some have accused Facebook of jumping the gun when it comes to censoring material, others have said the social media network is too lax when it comes to allowing terrorists to use the medium for nefarious purposes.

That doesn't mean the Feds aren't worried about how they might be used for nefarious purposes, such as funding terrorist activities or money laundering.

This was done in order to limit the use of cash for nefarious purposes and also to reduce tax evasion.

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by...

The bogus demand, followed by a quick sale, creates a profit opportunity for nefarious actors by taking advantage of traders who are unaware of the plan.

Others were shocked, worried their personal information could be used for nefarious purposes.

The heart of the matter is how an app created by Dr Aleksandr Kogan was able to access so much data that could be used by groups for nefarious purposes, despite apparent guardrails Facebook had put in place to prevent such abuse.

Combine this with the inherent anonymity of transactions, and you have an ideal medium of exchange for nefarious purposes.

Ever wonder what would happen if Tim Cook decided to go evil and use everyone's iPhone data for nefarious purposes?

However, both Dubai and the United Arab Emirates also released several warnings last fall to the public about the risks of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and the use of cryptocurrencies as legal payment, due to their anonymity and potential use for nefarious purposes.

Even those that think Bitcoin is only used for nefarious purposes must admit that the Bitcoin network's continued survival is a testament to the security success of the underlying technology.

It may be for nefarious reasons, but that innovation will eventually trickle down to the rest of the industries, which will lead to more development in the crypto market.

«It's time to protect yourself — and your friends — from Facebook,» read the click - bait headline Monday on Mashable, one of many columns this week decrying how Cambridge Analytica, a firm aligned with the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, scraped and mined data from many millions of unsuspecting users of the social network and allegedly used them for nefarious political purposes.

«It is a near certainty that criminals and spies are exploiting this vulnerability for nefarious purposes,» he told TechNewsWorld.

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Cambridge Analytica.

11:45 am ET: The companies were asked when they first became aware of Russian state actors using their platforms for nefarious activities.

But some security experts say that this argument about whether the data was being sold to a third party for nefarious purposes or not misses the point: that HIV data is highly sensitive, and that sharing it with any outside companies is a move away from the security of its users.

Kogan is hardly an impartial source but his claim accords with various studies that have shown less than stellar results for nefarious social media manipulation.

Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Camb

So it'll be much harder to pick up someone else's Li - Fi signal to read their data, whereas that's not a huge challenge for a nefarious party near a Wi - Fi router.

These diverse voices, however, can also drown out the calls to preserve the anonymity that was once one of the virtual currency's primary appeals — not least because it provided a payment platform for nefarious ends.

To be clear, we are not aware of a single verified instance of anyone having a chip implanted at birth for a nefarious purpose or otherwise.

It's not something you'd use for nefarious purposes, it's code you'd use if you were designing the front end of a website.

Critics of the OSC whistleblower program argue that providing financial rewards will give rise to an «American — style bounty program» and may lead to individuals coming forward with incomplete or misleading information that may implicate others for nefarious or monetary motives.

Again, an adversary could use this information for nefarious acts.

The identity of the party seeking disclosure and the purpose for doing so is important: disclosure to someone who requires the information to exercise an established legal right is clearly different from disclosure to someone who is merely curious or seeks the information for nefarious purposes.

The Creep Catchers are a loosely affiliated group of people whose stated purpose is to expose online predators, particularly those who will then arrange to meet with children for nefarious purposes.

So there is an outside chance that someone could be scamming the service to somehow lift passwords and logins for nefarious purposes.

Bart, do your really think that Bengstton did this for a nefarious hidden purpose?

I pointed out the Goddard / Marcott analogy on the 24th, twice, and was roundly attacked for it since my name isn't McIntyre, attacked for my nefarious motives that are merely to strongly shun mistakes, outlandish conspiracy theories and outspoken crackpot comments on mainstream skeptical blogs that afford the usual hockey stick team members newfound media attention with very lasting damage to skepticism and also strongly hinder my ability to reach out to reasonable people who are strongly averse to extremism as nearly all normal people happen to be for very good reason.

And then we can note that it is not just decades, but centuries over which this artificial base for nefarious policy schemes has been constructed by global, cross-disciplinary collusion of scientists.

People will get the idea I used moderation for some nefarious means.

If scientists are meeting to coordinate a message, it can only mean that we're trying to distort the truth for some nefarious end.

The scientific endeavor is messy and can be distorted for nefarious purposes, but it is not monolithic.

I have no interest in discrediting or disrupting this site for nefarious purposes; the regulars here seem to be doing a fine job of that all by themselves.

How is it that 3 other lead authors of chapter 8 would publicly repudiate the allegations that Santer made the alterations to include the «discernible» claims for nefarious reasons if those accusations had any merit?

«You either accept that they are on to something or... You think they all conspire to create a hoax for some nefarious reason.

Speculating on the causes of the failure — and particularly looking for nefarious conspiracies — is completely irresponsible at this point.