What does Riskopia do?
Riskopia serves as the primary institution of Stephen Cobb, public-interest technologist and researcher. Stephen'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 noted 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." Cobb commented that this illustrates a fundamental issue with the way humans currently develop and deploy technology: the failure to adequately address human weaknesses as constraining factors. For example, if you're thinking of using a networked information system to record sensitive information you need to address the fact that A) some people are too weak to resist abusi...