YouTube Consumer: Do You Want a Pet RAT?
August 10, 2015
Because information access is shifting from the dinosaur approach (human figures out a query) to the couch potatoes’ approach (just consume what a click and an algorithm deliver), I will be adding more coverage of “enhanced” search and retrieval.
Today, we do RATs.
Navigate to “Google Profits from YouTube RAT Infestation, Says Consumer Group.” The idea is that you learn how to embed remote access tools on another couch potato’s computing device. There are quite a few folks into the RAT game.
The article suggests that the GOOG profits from instructional videos which teach folks how to use RATs. According to the write up, the Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) has
called on YouTube to stop monetizing videos that promote the use and dissemination of RATs, saying in a release that there’s “no reason” why major brands should be running adverts alongside these videos:
No company - especially one as big as Google - should make even a penny from videos that show the faces of victims and IP addresses.
The BBC reports that Adam Benson, deputy director of the DCA, said that the trade in stolen webcam footage was “troubling” and called on Google to stop relying on computer-based methods to find and remove the videos.
Intrigued? There are industrial strength tools available to build your own RAT colony. To get the details, you will have to wait until my new study “Dark Web Basics” is available.
Stephen E Arnold, August 10, 2015
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