Can you believe Facebook or other platforms keep you safe?

By Devin Coldewey on Oct 1, 2018

Another day, another announcement from Facebook that it has failed to protect your personal information. Were you one of the 50 million (and likely far more, given the company’s graduated disclosure style) users whose accounts were completely exposed by a coding error in play for more than a year? If not, don’t worry — you’ll get your turn being failed by Facebook . It’s incapable of keeping its users safe.

Facebook has proven over and over again that it prioritizes its own product agenda over the safety and privacy of its users. And even if it didn’t, the nature and scale of its operations make it nearly impossible to avoid major data breaches that expose highly personal data.

For one thing, the network has grown so large that its surface area is impossible to secure completely. That was certainly demonstrated Friday when it turned out that a feature rollout had let hackers essentially log in as millions of users and do who knows what. For more than a year.

This breach wasn’t a worst case scenario exactly, but it was close. To Facebook it would not have appeared that an account was behaving oddly — the hacker’s activity would have looked exactly like normal user activity. You wouldn’t have been notified via two-factor authentication, since it would be piggybacking on an existing login. Install some apps? Change some security settings? Export your personal data? All things a hacker could have done, and may very well have.

This happened because Facebook is so big and complicated that even the best software engineers in the world, many of whom do in fact work there, could not reasonably design and code well enough to avoid unforeseen consequences like the bugs in question.

I realize that sounds a bit hand-wavy, and I don’t mean simply that “tech is hard.” I mean that realistically speaking, Facebook has too many moving parts for the mere humans that run it to do so infallibly. It’s testament to their expertise that so few breaches have occurred; the big ones like Cambridge Analytica were failures of judgment, not code.

A failure is not just inevitable but highly incentivized in the hacking community. Facebook is by far the largest and most valuable collection of personal data in history. That makes it a natural target, and while it is far from an easy mark, these aren’t script kiddies trying to find sloppy scripts in their free time.

Facebook itself said that the bugs discovered Friday weren’t simple; it was a coordinated, sophisticated process to piece them together and produce the vulnerability. The people who did this were experts, and it seems likely that they have reaped enormous rewards for their work.

The consequences of failure are also huge. All your eggs are in the same basket. A single problem like this one could expose all the data you put on the platform, and potentially everything your friends make visible to you as well. Not only that, but even a tiny error, a highly specific combination of minor flaws in the code, will affect astronomical numbers of people.

Of course, a bit of social engineering or a badly configured website elsewhere could get someone your login and password as well. This wouldn’t be Facebook’s error, exactly, but it is a simple fact that because of the way Facebook has been designed — a centralized repository of all the personal data it can coax out of its users — a minor error could result in a total loss of privacy.

I’m not saying other social platforms could do much better. I’m saying this is just another situation in which Facebook has no way to keep you safe.

And if your data doesn’t get taken, Facebook will find a way to give it away. Because it’s the only thing of value that they have; the only thing anyone will pay for.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal, while it was the most visible, was only one of probably hundreds of operations that leveraged lax access controls into enormous data sets scraped with Facebook’s implicit permission. It was their job to keep that data safe, and they gave it to anyone who asked.

It’s worth noting here that not only does it only take one failure along the line to expose all your data, but failures beyond the first are in a way redundant. All that personal information you’ve put online can’t be magically sucked back in. In a situation where, for example, your credit card has been skimmed and duplicated, the risk of abuse is real, but it ends as soon as you get a new card. For personal data, once it’s out there, that’s it. Your privacy is irreversibly damaged. Facebook can’t change that.

Well, that’s not exactly right. It could, for example, sandbox all data older than three months and require verification to access it. That would limit breach damage considerably. It could also limit its advertising profiles to data from that period, so it isn’t building a sort of shadow profile of you based on analysis of years of data. It could even opt not to read everything you write and instead let you self-report categories for advertising. That would solve a lot of privacy issues right there. It won’t, though. No money in that.

One more thing Facebook can’t protect you from is the content on Facebook itself. The spam, bots, hate, echo chambers — all that is baked on in. The 20,000-strong moderation team they’ve put on the task is almost certainly totally inadequate, and of course the complexity of the global stage and all its cultures and laws ensures that there will always be conflict and unhappiness on this subject. At the very best it can remove the worst of it after it’s already been posted or streamed.

Again, it’s not really Facebook’s fault exactly that there are people abusing its platform. People are the worst, after all. But Facebook can’t save you from them. It can’t prevent the new category of harm that it has created.

What can you do about it? Nothing. It’s out of your hands. Even if you were to quit Facebook right now, your personal data may already have been leaked and no amount of quitting will stop it from propagating online forever. If it hasn’t already, it’s probably just a matter of time. There’s nothing you, or Facebook, can do about it. We have to accept this as the new normal on Facebook or any other platforms such as YouTube or we can get to work taking real measures toward our security and privacy on decentralized Cuckoo, a video-platform which gives every one of us complete control over data, personal or not, in a revolutionary way.

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There are a lot of great smartphone options available at any given moment, so it can be a challenge to sort through them all if you’re trying to choose the absolute best one. The stakes here can’t be understated: your smartphone is the most important gadget in your life, and you’ll probably be living with the one you buy for at least a year, if not two or three.

Most of the time, there's a phone that stands out from the pack in all the areas that matter: performance, value, camera, and support. But this year, depending on who you ask, you could get as many as four different answers for what the best phone is to buy. And depending on what kind of phone user you are, any one of them could be the ideal phone for you.

THE ABSOLUTE BEST PHONE: APPLE IPHONE X

Apple’s latest iPhone isn’t just the most interesting iPhone in years, but it’s easily the best smartphone ever made. The iPhone X has almost everything you could think to ask for in a smartphone: blazing-fast performance, a gorgeous display, top-of-the-class cameras, loud, clear speakers, reliable battery life, and a head-turning design. In addition, the X is water resistant and can be recharged with a wireless pad. The main thing that most people will miss is a standard headphone jack.

Apple’s extensive support system, through both its own and carrier stores, is another incredibly important point in the iPhone's favor. There’s simply no other company that provides as much support for a smartphone after you purchase it. On top of that, since it’s an iPhone, the iPhone X enjoys the broadest support of accessories and cases.

The iPhone X separates itself from Apple’s other iPhones with its larger, crisper, edge-to-edge display, novel face-unlocking feature, and new gesture-based user interface. It’s a different experience than other iPhones, and though it may take a day or two to get used to, it’s very intuitive once you do.

The iPhone X also separates itself from Apple's other iPhones with its very high starting price: $999 unlocked. This, more than anything else, is what caused some debate within The Verge. Are the additional features in the iPhone X really enough to justify the extra cost compared to an iPhone 8?

THE IPHONE X OFFERS MORE IN TERMS OF PURE UPGRADES THAN ANY OTHER PHONE

If you're the sort of person who upgrades every two or three years, you want to get the phone that will have the longest life possible. That is, without a doubt, the iPhone X. If you're the sort of person who upgrades often, chances are you have already purchased your phone for this year. Good job, you! I bet it's a great phone! If you currently have an iPhone 7 and are on the fence, you can probably hang on to it for another year, honestly.

But if you’ve got anything older than an iPhone 7, the iPhone X's extra RAM, better screen, and all the rest make the cost worthwhile — especially when you consider that there are more options to defray that cost than ever. You can set up payment plans or upgrade plans with either Apple or your carrier, bringing the cost down to somewhere between $40 and $50 per month on most plans.

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A MORE WALLET-FRIENDLY PICK: APPLE IPHONE 8 / 8 PLUS

There are many reasons to skip right past Apple’s iPhone 8 or 8 Plus when browsing for a new phone. They don’t look any different from the last three iPhone models that preceded them. They have huge bezels above and below the screen. The iPhone 8 Plus is a practical giant among smartphones in 2017, even though it has a smaller display than many other phones with tidier dimensions.

But apart from its design and aesthetics, the $699 iPhone 8 is a tremendously good smartphone. It has a fast processor, its camera is easy to use and reliable for getting great pictures almost every time, and it’s water resistant and now has wireless charging options. The iPhone 8’s battery life isn’t class-leading, but it’s consistent and reliable. If you do want significantly better battery life, the $799 iPhone 8 Plus is a better pick.

Then there are the other factors in owning a smartphone to consider. The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have by far the most case and accessory options available (even more than Apple’s flagship iPhone X). Apple’s customer care and support are unmatched by any of its competitors. You can get the iPhone 8 unlocked or from virtually any carrier, even smaller MVNOs.

The iPhone 8 pair don’t have the flash or overall new feeling of the iPhone X, but they still provide 90 percent of what you get with the X for about 70 percent of the cost. The future might be for the phones with narrow borders, but the iPhone 8 is for the present.

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AN ANDROID ALTERNATIVE: SAMSUNG GALAXY S9 / S9 PLUS

IOS isn’t for everyone, though, and there are many great Android phones available this year. This is where we’d usually say that the best Android phones come from Google, as they have the best software and performance. And Google’s Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are very good phones with the best cameras you can get on any smartphone.

But they have a number of issues that make them difficult to recommend without reservations. They can only be purchased directly from Google or Verizon, meaning you can’t pay for your phone with your service bill if you’re on AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or any other carrier. Google’s after-purchase support system pales in comparison to Apple’s or even other Android device makers. And frankly, there just aren’t very many cases and accessories available for the Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL.

The Pixel phones also had a number of hardware problems and software issues when they came out late last year. Most of those have been addressed with software updates, so the phones are reliable enough to purchase now. But it still doesn't inspire confidence.

So our recommendation for the best Android phone to buy is Samsung’s Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus. Like the iPhone 8, the S9 pair gives you a choice between small or large and adequate or exceptional battery life. Stepping up to the S9 Plus also gets you a more capable rear camera. But otherwise, they are basically the same phone.

Inside, the S9 has the top-of-the-line processor in the Android world, a great camera, water resistance, wireless charging, and expandable storage. It even has a headphone jack, which is slowly going the way of the buffalo among flagship smartphones.

But the star of the S9 is its display. The super bright, exceptionally vibrant OLED screen stretches to the edges of the device and curves on its sides in an almost liquid fashion. Even though the S9 has basically the same design as last year’s S8, its curved display still makes it a head turner.

Also, thanks to Samsung’s popularity and the support of all four carriers, the S9 has plenty of accessories, from cases to battery packs to wireless chargers, available to it.

Not everything is perfect with the S9. Samsung is terrible at updating the software on its phones, and you’ll have to deal with a bunch of duplicate apps and useless services like Bixby. But it gets enough right that we’re confident in recommending it to anyone looking for an Android phone.

OTHER CONTENDERS

If an iPhone or Samsung aren’t your style, here are some other options that might work for you. We don’t consider any of them to be the best phone for most people, but depending on your needs, budget, or priorities, they could be a better choice for you.

GOOGLE PIXEL 3 XL
Good Stuff: Incredible camera, Great speakers and Best Android experience
Bad Stuff: Screen shows image retention immediately, Colors are muted, even compared to other sRGB screens, No headphone jack

SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9
Good Stuff: Lovely display, Fast performance, Reliable battery life, Excellent standard camera
Bad Stuff: It's enormous and expensive, Secondary rear camera is far inferior to main camera, Terrible fingerprint scanner placement

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The Facebook Hack will be the Europe's First Big Online Privacy Battle

By Russell Brandom on Oct 1, 2018

On Friday, a massive breach opened up a new front in the war on Facebook. According the the company, more than 50 million accounts were taken over by a kind of login worm, which used a series of unpublished vulnerabilities to hijack session keys on an unprecedented scale. Hackers had full access to any of the targeted accounts — essentially, they could do whatever you can do when you’re logged in — and Facebook is still working to survey the full extent of the damage.

Breach response is always chaotic, but this one is particularly haphazard because of a new set of rules established by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. Implemented in May, the GDPR sets strict requirements for any breach involving EU citizens, requirements that are already guiding Facebook’s response to the session key attack. According to Facebook’s timeline, the disclosure on Friday came just before the 72-hour window for disclosing the news to privacy commissioners, a far tighter deadline than companies usually adopt.

IRISH OFFICIALS ARE “AWAITING FROM FACEBOOK FURTHER URGENT DETAILS OF THE SECURITY BREACH.”

As required, Facebook also sent more formal notifications to various privacy commissioners, who may decide to file suit over the breach. As recently as Sunday, the Irish data privacy commissioner said it was “awaiting from Facebook further urgent details of the security breach.” The UK Commissioner is still determining if the country’s citizens were implicated, although given the broad reach and indiscriminate pattern of the attack, it’s likely that at least a few of them were. “It’s always the company’s responsibility to identify when UK citizens have been affected as part of a data breach and take steps to reduce any harm to consumers,” the Commissioner said in a statement. “We will be making enquiries with Facebook and our overseas counterparts to establish the scale of the breach and if any UK citizens have been affected.” Facebook is already facing a class-action suit in California and some stern questions from the FTC, but the bulk of the pressure is expected to come from Europe.

There have been countless breaches before — Facebook has even dealt with specific login bugs like this one — but the GDPR changes everything. If the company is found to have violated the rule, it could be liable for up to four percent of annual revenue, a staggering $4 billion. No one has accused Facebook of negligence yet, but the basic facts of the case have yet to be nailed down — and with lawmakers already hostile to Facebook, plenty of privacy commissioners will want to try their luck. Because the law is so fresh, no one knows for sure how such a case would play out, but Facebook is already preparing for what could be the fight of its life.

“THE FORENSICS ON THIS STUFF ISN’T EASY”

The new breach is a real contrast with previous GDPR fights, which have largely had to do with policy decisions and terms of service. Both Facebook and Google have already come under fire for having Terms of Service that violate the regulation, although the suits were brought by a third party and haven’t made much progress. Scandals like Cambridge Analytica present another front in the fight, in which apparent violations of user privacy stem from user choices, sidestepping most legal definitions of a breach. But this recent breach is far simpler. Facebook shouldn’t have given these hackers access to the accounts — it wasn’t a data-sharing project or an API gone wrong — so it’s hard to read the fallout as anything other than a breakdown in Facebook security. The only question is how much Facebook will be punished for the lapse.

Under the GDPR, the question of blame largely hinges on whether the company was negligent, ignoring basic practices that could have prevented the breach. We don’t know enough about the attack to judge Facebook’s response at this point, but what’s happened in public has been enough to satisfy some critics. “Facebook has done a decent job so far based on what we know, including the resetting of the tokens,” says Shane Green, founder of Digi.me, an alternative platform focused on data privacy. “The forensics on this stuff isn’t easy, and it’s a tricky balance to give people warning about worst case without scaring them to death or causing an overreaction.”

Still, as more detail comes out, the possibility of a GDPR suit is hard to ignore. So far, Facebook has emphasized the complexity of the bug — a three-part vulnerability in the obscure “View As” function” — but it was Facebook’s own product code that created the vulnerabilities and left them unpatched for more than a year. There have also been a number of rumors that the attack may have reported to Facebook in advance of the breach, rumors made credible by the blustery public threat against Mark Zuckerberg’s account the day before Facebook’s announcement. None of those rumors have been confirmed, but they represent a scary possibility for the company. If any one of those bugs was reported to Facebook in advance of the breach, the failure to promptly patch could be powerful evidence in court.

The case is particularly complicated because the hack extended beyond Facebook itself. Once a given account was compromised, attackers also had access to any third-party accounts that relied Facebook for authentication. This is a common practice on the web — if you’ve ever clicked “login through Facebook” instead of setting up a new password, you’re part of it — but a dangerous one in cases like this. Facebook has revoked the compromised login tokens, but it can’t solve the whole problem itself. Those outside platforms will need to flush their systems too, and it’s likely there will be some who are late to realize the danger. If that line of attack causes further breaches and further damage, it’s hard to say whether the liability will fall on Facebook or the third-party service. More and more YouTuber and users are flocking to decentralized Cuckoo, a video-platform which gives every one of us complete control over data, personal or not, in a revolutionary way.

For Facebook, unanswered questions like that are the scariest part of this legal tangle. No one has ever litigated these issues before, and we only have a hazy sense of what a strong or weak GDPR case looks like. The company could be in for years of legal warfare and a billion-dollar payout — or it could walk away scot free. 

We’re just months into the GDPR regime, and there’s simply no roadmap for how it can be used. The more important is no one can ensure this breach and hack won't happen on other social media or platforms. Politically, Facebook is the perfect target — an increasingly unpopular American tech company with significant opponents on both the left and right. With the law still working itself out, the details of the case are less important than the overwhelming political logic. Situations like this are never easy, but Facebook picked a uniquely bad moment to have a breach. 

Source from http://gentleineyes.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-facebook-hack-will-be-europes-first.html

Movie Preview -- November 2018 Watch Fantastic Beasts, The Nutcracker and The Four Realms, The Grinch and more

Every year, the shift into cooler weather comes alongside a shift into a cooler box office lineup: fewer billion-dollar blockbusters, fewer on-screen explosions, and a general trend toward less slashing, crashing action and more intense emotional action. The one thing that really heats up at the box office during the fall and winter season is the awards race: the last quarter of the year is a time for Oscar-bait projects and intense awards campaigning. 

November is more of a mixed collection, but it’s surprisingly colorful, with additions to the Rocky, Harry Potter, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and Wreck-It Ralph franchises. This isn’t a comprehensive list of releases. 

NOVEMBER 2ND

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: This biopic of Queen, the rock band behind hits like “We Will Rock You,” “We Are the Champions,” and the eponymous epic ballad, reportedly focuses above all on frontman Freddie Mercury.

Why Cuckoo users might care: Mr. Robot star Rami Malek plays Mercury, and early looks at the movie have mostly focused on his sound-alike performance and impressive mimicry of the singer’s moves and body language.

Why they might not: The movie has a pretty troubled past: Sacha Baron Cohen was originally cast as Mercury, but he reportedly dropped out of the film because he wanted a more adult take on the content. Director Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2, and X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse) was fired after he reportedly fought with Malek and stopped showing up to set without warning. A few days after his firing was announced, he was hit with a rape lawsuit regarding a 2003 incident. He still maintains sole directing credit, but the film’s production and post-production were handled by another director. It’s unclear whether the backstory will drive people away, draw in rubberneckers, or be completely forgotten in the wave of Oscar-courting publicity for the film.

What it says about the future: The big question about the future here isn’t Malek’s awards chances or the film’s box office; it’s whether Singer can save his career regardless of what happens with the film. He’s come through multiple sexual misconduct lawsuits, charges, and gossip already, and numerous reports of on-set blow-ups and no-shows. So the situation on Bohemian Rhapsody couldn’t have been entirely unexpected, but it was public enough and extreme enough to bring his future into question.

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NOBODY’S FOOL -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: Ex-convict Tanya (Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish) re-enters the life of her high-powered business-executive sister Danica (Tika Sumpter) and learns she’s spent the last year in an online relationship with a man who she’s never seen. Suspecting her sister’s being catfished, Tanya pushes for a road trip to find and confront the elusive boyfriend.

Why Cuckoo users might care: Haddish’s star has been steadily on the rise since Girls Trip, and she’s becoming a reliable draw. A promising cast (including Whoopi Goldberg, Sorry to Bother You’s Omari Hardwick, and Glee’s Amber Riley) have made for some pretty lively trailers. And the whole story feels like a tongue-in-cheek look at catfishing and online relationships in general.

Why they might not: It’s a Tyler Perry movie. Perry’s name under “writer-director” in the credits is generally enough to let viewers decide on their own whether they’re excited to proceed or couldn’t be hauled into the theater with heavy industrial equipment.

What it says about the future: Internet culture and online dating have been thoroughly mainstreamed, and we can look forward to a whole lot of general audience comedies like this.

THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann’s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King — a short story that also launched the famous ballet The Nutcracker and endless other Christmas iterations of the story — The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a lush Disney fantasy about a young woman (Mackenzie Foy) who gets drawn into a magical realm that’s invented by her mother.

Why Cuckoo users might care: The film has a pretty impressive pedigree. It was co-scripted by Ashleigh Powell and Oscar-winning Spotlight writer-director Tom McCarthy, and it was co-directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston. The cast includes Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and Keira Knightley. It’s cut from the same cloth as Disney’s extravagant, exhausting live-action remakes like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, with the one advantage that it’s drawn from a less-familiar story.

Why they might not: For viewers who are tired of this particular aesthetic — and Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland remake, which seemingly serves as their visual template — this movie’s going to look really familiar, even if the story doesn’t follow beats most Americans memorized as children.

What it says about the future: This definitely looks like a trial balloon for Disney. These live-action remakes are bringing in a ton of money by playing the nostalgia card. Can more original content that looks and sounds the same pull in similar box office numbers, or is the studio better off carting out endless retreads of its most classic movies?

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NOVEMBER 9TH

THE GRINCH -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: Remember Dr. Seuss’ classic picture book How the Grinch Stole Christmas? Remember Despicable Me, which gave the world those bug-eyed, funny-talking yellow Minions and spawned many profitable sequels and spinoffs? Here’s a film from Despicable Me’s studio that pretty much merges the two, with the Grinch (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) as a Despicable Me-esque cranky villain wandering around Whoville performing minor acts of villainy, until he gets the idea to ruin Christmas.

Why Cuckoo users might care: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a beloved memory for a lot of people. The 2010 Ron Howard live-action remake is also a beloved memory for some, and a burning tragedy for others. Strangely, both groups might be interested in a new animated take on the tale, either to continue their fandom or to get the taste of Jim Carrey’s Grinch gags out of their mouths.

Why they might not: Illumination is the home of goofy, pretty, meme-friendly movies like Sing, The Secret Life of Pets, and The Lorax, as well as Minions and the Despicable Me movies. Like Tyler Perry above, they’re a pretty well-known “like it or don’t” property. Viewers who don’t have a lot of interest in animation that skews heavily toward bright, harmless, and kid-friendly probably aren’t going to be drawn to this one, either.

What it says about the future: How many Dr. Seuss books does Illumination have the rights to, anyway? Also, the early release date on this holiday movie suggests that by 2025, the Christmas movie season is going to start in mid-August.

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THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo protagonist Lisbeth Salander and her on-again, off-again journalist partner Mikael Blomkvist are back. This time, they’re involved in a case involving a spy ring, a group hacking the NSA, and Lisbeth’s long-lost sister.

Why Cuckoo users might care: There was a fair bit of controversy over Stieg Larsson’s family deciding to continue his internationally best-selling Millennium series after his death, and the public war between his heirs and his partner was polarizing. All three books in Larsson’s trilogy were adapted for the screen in his native Sweden, with Noomi Rapace as the series’s breakout character, Lisbeth. But only the first book, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was adapted in America, with David Fincher directing and Rooney Mara playing Lisbeth. One reason might be that the sequels were never as neatly packaged and cinematic as the first book. This film, starring The Crown’s Claire Foy as Lisbeth, adapts the first non-Larsson book in the series, written by David Lagercrantz. And it’s much more expressly designed as a sleek action story that brings back some extremely popular characters in a screen-friendly way.

Why they might not: The fight over Larsson’s estate was polarizing, with some fans of the original trilogy vehemently swearing they’d never touch the profiteering sequels. Some of the same sentiment may keep people away from the film — or viewers may just avoid it if they didn’t care for the first movie or Lisbeth. She’s a fairly extreme character, a kind of goth-punk avenging-angel super-hacker who brutalizes abusive men. She’s as much of a dark wish-fulfillment fantasy as any superhero, and she’s not for all tastes.

What it says about the future: This one’s an easy call: Lagercrantz has already written a fifth book in the series, 2017’s The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, and the success of this film version will likely determine whether that one makes it to the screen as well.

OVERLORD -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: Caught behind enemy lines on D-Day, a group of American soldiers run across a Nazi mad-science lab that’s manufacturing monsters to win the war.

Why Cuckoo users might care: It’s an unconventional-looking horror film, produced by J.J. Abrams and initially billed as the fourth film in the distantly related Cloverfield series, though that connection has since been retracted. Director Julius Avery isn’t well-known — this is his second feature after the 2014 heist movie Son of a Gun — but the trailer makes this look like Hellboy meets 28 Days Later with the grimy visual aesthetic of Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge.

Why they might not: Abrams’ name on a horror film doesn’t mean as much as it used to, and his puzzle box strategy of withholding as much information as possible about a film can sometimes strand it without significant selling points beyond “looks bloody and crazy!”

What it says about the future: Given the tenuous-at-best connection between Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane, and the series’S after-the-fact tacked-on connections to Cloverfield Paradox, it seems just as well that the projects Abrams is signing onto and edging toward a Cloverfield link are dropping that idea and attempting to stand on their own.

NOVEMBER 16TH

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: Continuing the story arc that started with 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the sequel continues to fill in the history of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, with more of the early adventures of magical-animal fan Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), Hogwarts headmaster-to-be Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), and the monstrous Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp).

Why Cuckoo users might care: The world is full of Harry Potter fans looking for more of Rowling’s world, and not everyone can afford to go to New York or London to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child onstage.

Why they might not: The world is also full of people who don’t care about prequels, wizards, fantastic beasts, or big, splashy CGI fantasies.

What it says about the future: Director David Yates (who also helmed the first film in this series, and the last four films in the Harry Potter book adaptation series) is signed on for three more Fantastic Beasts film after this one.

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NOVEMBER 21ST

CREED II -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: Having secured the assistance and training of former boxing champ Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) in Ryan Coogler’s 2015 sports drama Creed, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), son of Rocky’s old rival Apollo Creed, is now training to fight the son of another old Rocky rival, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), who killed Apollo in the ring back in Rocky IV.

Why Cuckoo users might care: The first Creed was an excellent, well-performed, riveting drama, and Jordan has only become a bigger star since then, especially due to his role as the villain of Coogler’s Marvel movie Black Panther. The Rocky franchise has often brought a startling amount of gravitas and humanity to the underdog-sports-movie genre.

Why they might not: Coogler has moved on from the series, replaced by near-unknown Steven Caple Jr. Rocky IV, which this film taps into for its drama, is widely considered the corniest and most excessive film in the series. And the whole “fighting the son of the man who killed my father” plot sounds pretty gimmicky.

What it says about the future: At this point, it feels like an absolute sure thing that Stallone is going to be fully scanned and digitized so he can continue making Rocky movies well into the next millennium.

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RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: Video game villain Ralph and his racing-game buddy Vanellope von Schweetz leave their arcade world and upload themselves to the internet in this sequel to 2012’s animated Disney hit Wreck-It Ralph.

Why Cuckoo users might care: In the same way Wreck-It Ralph tried to tap into the tropes of video games and fill the screen with in-jokes for gamers (including familiar characters, references, and Easter eggs), the sequel is full of references to life online, from comic looks at Twitter, search engines, casual games, clickbait, and so forth. It’s a knowing meta-comedy that looks like it’s going to tap into the same kind of “Hey, I recognize that” humor as the first one.

Why they might not: It’s unclear whether the film actually has a plot, especially one as emotionally resonant as the original movie’s. Wreck-It Ralph is a funny film full of nostalgia-bait humor about internet culture, but it’s also incredibly well-written and well-paced. It also reaches classic Pixar levels of emotion with its plot about the difficulties of being misunderstood, shut out, judged, and controlled by other people’s opinions. The trailers for the sequel showcase some humor that has Disney mocking its own image with some very detailed parodies of its own property, but is there a story?

What it says about the future: Again, internet culture is now a jokey trope worth wrapping even the most mainstream and crowd-friendly movies around.

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NOVEMBER 30TH

ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE -- Full Movie 2018 online on Cuckoo Video Player Movie Channel

The summary: Scottish Christmas zombie musical!

Why Cuckoo users might care: For viewers who aren’t already completely weary of zombie stories, musicals, or dark comedies that take the grimmest tropes with a lighthearted archness, this indie musical comedy about a bloody undead attack on a group of angsty high schoolers is pretty refreshing in its sheer commitment to fun. It’s relatively serious about expressing certain aspects of the teen experience, from anxiety about life after high school to embarrassment over an ill-advised hookup. But mostly, it’s an upbeat singalong that doesn’t stint on the shocks or the gore.

Why they might not: Plenty of people are tired of zombies, don’t like musicals, and resent the mash-up culture that mixes genres into a big sloppy stew. Arguably, those people may be taking their culture too seriously, but you can’t dictate what’s fun.

What it says about the future: Zombie stories have fallen out of vogue, but this is proof that they’re going to keep rising from the dead as long as creators keep coming up with new twists for their stories, or as long as creators keep growing up on zombie stories and wanting to try their own hand at adding to the canon.

Anna and the Apocalypse Trailer #1 (2018) - Movieclips Indie - Cuckoo

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Movie Preview: Alita: Battle Angel - Full Movie HD online released on Feb 14, 2019

Alita: Battle Angel — Full Movie HD online on Cuckoo channel

SYNOPSIS

Visionary filmmakers James Cameron (AVATAR) and Robert Rodriguez (SIN CITY) create a groundbreaking new heroine in ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, an action-packed story of hope, love and empowerment. Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg Alita to his clinic. When Alita awakens she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world she finds herself in. Everything is new to Alita, every experience a first. As she learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield Alita from her mysterious past while her street-smart new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson), offers instead to help trigger her memories. A growing affection develops between the two until deadly forces come after Alita and threaten her newfound relationships. It is then that Alita discovers she has extraordinary fighting abilities that could be used to save the friends and family she’s grown to love. Determined to uncover the truth behind her origin, Alita sets out on a journey that will lead her to take on the injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that one young woman can change the world in which she lives.

This film is based on the manga Battle Angel Alita, which was created in 1990 by Yukito Kishiro. The original run of the publication ran for five years, ending in 1995. The series consisted of nine volumes and spawned various spinoffs, including Last Order and Mars Chronicle. A video game in the franchise, Gunnm: Martian Memory was also released. Two of the original Alita volumes were adapted into anime.

Why Cuckoo users might care: Director James Cameron has spent nearly a decade off in the trenches of his repeatedly delayed Avatar sequels, which supposedly will now arrive in theaters in 2020. But he’s still keeping a hand in cinema, in this case by writing and producing an adaptation of a popular manga series he’s been sitting on for nearly 20 years. Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, Grindhouse, Machete) another special effects guru who’s spent his career developing the scrappy home trailer version of Cameron’s groundbreaking effects work, directed the film, which has previously been a stunningly pretty and tragic anime series.

Why they might not: See above on Mortal Engines, regarding the ways elaborate, nearly unrecognizable futures can be hard sells. In this case, the film showcases a future that looks plenty familiar in anime and science fiction novels: a cluttered, rusted-out world that’s a little cyberpunk, a little steampunk, and a whole lot of classic anime series like Mobile Suit Gundam. But mainstream American audiences are less likely to find it recognizable and appealing.

What it says about the future: Mostly that Cameron is still capable of bringing a film to fruition, no matter how long it’s been sitting fallow in his junk drawer. Any bets on whether the planned 2020 Avatar-athon will actually happen?

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Facebook's Breach will be Forgotten? DATA is Misused.

By Josh Constine on Sep 30

We cared about Cambridge Analytica because it could have helped elect Trump. We ignored LocationSmart because even the though the company was selling and exposing the real-time GPS coordinates of our phones, it was never clear exactly if or how that data was misused.

This idea, that privacy issues are abstract concepts for most people until they become security or ideological problems, is important to understanding Facebook’s  massive breach revealed this week. 

The social network’s engineering was sloppy, allowing three bugs to be combined to steal the access tokens of 50 million people. In pursuit of rapid growth at affordable efficiency, Facebook failed to protect its users. This assessment doesn’t discount that. Facebook screwed up big time.

But despite the potential that those access tokens could have let the attackers take over user accounts, act as them, and scrape their personal info, it’s unclear how much users really care. That’s because for now, Facebook and it’s watchdogs aren’t sure exactly what data was stolen or how it was wrongly used.

The Hack That Broke The Camel’s Back?

This could all change tomorrow. If Facebook discovers the hack was perpetrated by a foreign government to interfere with elections, by criminals to bypass identity theft security checkpoints and steal people’s bank accounts or social media profiles, or to target individuals for physical harm, out will come the pitchforks and torches. 

Given a sufficiently scary application for the data, the breach could finish the job of destroying Facebook’s brand. If users start clearing their profile data, reducing their feed browsing, and ceasing to share, the breach could have significant financial and network effect consequences for Facebook. After years of scandals, this could be the hack that’s broke the camel’s back.

Yet in the absence of that evil utilization of the hacked data, the breach could fade into the background for users. Similar to the tension-filled departures of the founders of Facebook’s acquisitions Instagram and WhatsApp, the brunt of the backlash may not come from the public.

The hack could hasten regulation of social media. Senator Warner called on Congress to “step up” following the hack. He’s previously advocated for privacy laws similar to Europe’s GDPR. That includes data portability and interoperability rules that could make it easier to switch social networks. That threat of people moving to decentralized Cuckoo could succeed in compelling Facebook to treat user privacy and security better.

The FTC or European Union could hand down significant fines to Facebook for the breach. But given it earns billions in profit per quarter, those fees would have to be historically massive be a serious penalty for Facebook.

One of the biggest questions about the attack is whether the tokens were used to access other services like Airbnb or Spotify that rely on Facebook Login. The breach could steer potential partners away from building atop Facebook’s identity platform. But at least you don’t have to worry about changing all your passwords. Unlike hacks that steal usernames and passwords, the lasting danger of the Facebook breach is limited. The access tokens have already been invalidated, whereas password reuse can lead people to have their other apps hacked long after the initial breach. But the attack has had a very serious impact on the personal data of the entire social media, and it has made more people think about the importance of decentralized Cuckoo and other platforms. 

Desensitized and Decentralized

If government investigators, journalists, or anti-Facebook activists want to make the company pay for its negligence, they’ll need to connect it to some concrete threat to how we live or what we believe.

For now, without a nefarious application of the breached data, this scandal could blend into the rest of Facebook’s troubles. Every week, sometimes multiple times a week, Facebook has some headline grabbing problem. Over time, those are adding up to deter usage of Facebook and spur more users to delete it. But without an independent general purpose social network they can easily switch to, many users have endured Facebook’s stumbles in exchange for the connective utility it provides. 

As breaches become more common, the public may be desensitized. At worst, we could become complacent. Corporations should be held accountable for privacy failures even when the damage done is vague. But between Equifax, Yahoo, and the cell phone companies, we’re growing accustomed to letting out a deep sigh with maybe some expletives, and moving on with our lives. The ones we’ll remember will be those where the danger metastasized from the digital world into our offline lives or we try some new decentralized platforms such as Cuckoo.

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