Press Record. Trustworthy Truth Supply-chains in the Disinformation Age

About our Guest:

Dr Victoria Lemieux

https://ischool.ubc.ca/profile/victoria-lemieux/

Dominic Vogel

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/domvogel

cyber.sc

Papers or resources mention in this episode:

Lemieux, V. L. (2022). Searching for Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation. Cambridge University Press.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/searching-for-trust/B2F64551393899EBC6306EB42FCBE856

Lemieux, V. L., & Feng, C. (2021). Building Decentralized Trust. Springer International Publishing. https://doi. org/10.1007/978-3-030-54414-0.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Victoria-Lemieux/publication/350180597_Multidisciplinary_Blockchain_Research_and_Design_A_Case_Study_in_Moving_from_Theory_to_Pedagogy_to_Practice/links/60a542afa6fdcc3f30b5cbb4/Multidisciplinary-Blockchain-Research-and-Design-A-Case-Study-in-Moving-from-Theory-to-Pedagogy-to-Practice.pdf

Other:

Here is the oldest surviving record of the 60% of hacked SMBs go bankrupt claim,

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/SM/SM00/20150422/103276/HHRG-114-SM00-20150422-SD003-U4.pdf

National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Statement Regarding Incorrect Small Business Statistic

https://staysafeonline.org/press-release/national-cyber-security-alliance-statement-regarding-incorrect-small-business-statistic/

60% of Hacked Small Businesses Fail. How Reliable Is That Stat?

https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/blogs/60-hacked-small-businesses-fail-how-reliable-that-stat-p-2464

The fact that we can't find who is responsible for these numbers is kind of the point of having record keeping. 

Just to put this claim in context in 2015 the US had 28.8 million Small businesses (https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/advocacy/United_States.pdf)

If half of those businesses were hacked, as claimed that would be 14.4million Breaches.   If 60% of those went out of business, that would be 8.64 million businesses folding, which you might expect would be noticed economically.  In particular, it would mean that around half of the US population lost their job.  I suspect that we might have noticed that.