Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have teamed up to share their expertise spotting terrorism-related content, in order to crimp its spread. IT security experts from Lieberman Software, AlienVault, ESET and Comparitech.com commented below.
Philip Lieberman, President at Lieberman Software:
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Javvad Malik, Security Advocate at AlienVault:
Threat sharing between companies has become an almost essential part of an online security strategy, and we will likely see more companies sharing threat data between themselves either directly, or by use of an open platform such as Open Threat Exchange.”
Mark James, IT Security Specialist at ESET:
As with all initiatives like this, getting it right won’t be easy, there will have to be measures in place to ensure private information is not shared but for it to work more companies will need to follow suit and join in. Working together is key here, currently allowing each platform to decide the actions they take may boost the chances of this initiative working and achieving its desired goal.
The internet has so much to offer, it reaches so many people but sadly there are always people who will use these platforms for foul deeds, we have to make steps in the right direction if we want to promote a safer internet for our next generation.”
Lee Munson, Security Researcher at Comparitech.com:
Secondly, there is the question of what is offensive material in the first place. Considering one person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter, and the fact that we’ve already heard about fake news stories and allegedly biased reporting of elections and other important topics, we can only hope that those doing the censoring have the interests of the majority in mind when blocking material from appearing online.”
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