Security, Politics, Neutrality, and Protecting Users

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Presented at BSidesSanFrancisco 2020 by

Brendan O'Connor

Tech's alleged "neutrality" causes security problems for our users--ranging from misinformation and propaganda to harassment and worse. Is neutrality required, or desirable? Should tech itself (as Microsoft once suggested) be sovereign? What happens to our users' security if we stop being neutral?