Infosec Taylor Swift's cyber-philosophical musings

Andrea James 2:20 pm Tue Oct 21, 2014

Do you like your cyberphilosophy delivered via the dulcet voice of America's country music treasure Taylor Swift? Head over to Twitter and follow @SwiftOnSecurity. Below are a few of her most incisive critiques of techno-utopianism.

Swift showed how internet-savvy she is last month when she donned a "NO ITS BECKY" shirt, a reference to a famous Tumblr meme where a Tumblrina insisted a photo of Swift was an image of her friend Becky who died from snorting marijuana at a party.

Since then she has been dropping truth bombs all over Twitter, unless it's a parody account, which no one wants to believe is true.

• @SwiftOnSecurity (Twitter)

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