What does Riskopia do?
Riskopia serves as the primary institution of Stephen Cobb, public-interest technologist and researcher. Cobb's work can be found on the Riskopia Substack and a range of other media, linked on the left. Here is a recent example of Cobb's views on technology: a comment on the Vastamo data breach , as described by Tanmoy Goswami. A fellow of the Reuters Institute of Journalism at Oxford University, Goswami observed that: "the therapy notes of 33,000 Finnish citizens were hacked and put on the dark web for ransom by a criminal and at least two people whose data was compromised ended their lives." Writing on LinkedIn , Cobb said this behaviour illustrates "a fundamental issue with the way humans currently develop and deploy technology, a failure to adequately address human weaknesses as constraining factors." In practical this means that if you are thinking of using a networked information system to record sensitive information you need to address the fact t...