- Building 8: (#1135) Facebook’s Building 8 is the company’s research center. Last year at their F8 Conference on April 21, 2017, Facebook’s Building 8 director Regina Dugan, former director of both DARPA and Google’s experimental research division, announced they were working on direct brain-to-brain communications and brain-to-computer typing and demonstrated a prototype typing interface. Upshot? No more personal privacy even in one’s head! Definite interest from CIA. That was a year ago.
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- Honeypot: (#158) An attractive lure to set up others to be manipulated into behavior that is illegal, unbecoming, or would reflect badly on them if made known. In counter-malware IT usage, a trap set to detect, deflect, or counteract unauthorized use of information systems or malware reporting to a malware server. In drop #1138 Q references Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites as "HONEYPOTS," especially in relation to human/child sex trafficking. Article attached about Trump signing a new Federal law facilitating States in prosecuting websites which knowingly permit such behavior by users. (See Backpage.com)
Thank you for taking on the construction of this List, Swordmaker. Who knew it would turn from that cute little baby lizard into a T-Rex???
Gratitude to you from me, and probably all of us!