Ohanian said that with a content platform that has a quarter-billion monthly active users, there are lots of discussions happening on Reddit he may not personally agree with. Reddit is not as conspiratorial or controversial as you've been led to believe. Ohanian said Reddit has shipped more code and product improvements in the past year than in the past half decade.Ģ. It's an important part especially for us, given Reddit's influence in public opinion and getting people informed." "There is a broad spectrum of things any modern tech company needs to work. Ohanian said those apps "took us a while." In terms of core services, Reddit has been focused on mobile desktop, mobile web and new apps for iOS and Android. "How much business continuity do you have in place?"
"What happens if the system goes down," Segal asked. Companies have been focused on "keeping people out, not on resilience," he said. He added that there is also a "massive vulnerability" created by centralizing control of the Internet through companies like Dyn, which suffered the DDoS attack last week. and on the defensive side, companies are not spending enough," Segal said. all these DVRs and cameras linked to the Internet. If you link something to the Internet it is vulnerable. Nevertheless, speaking to CNBC from the Net/Net conference later on Tuesday, Adam Segal, director of the digital and cyberspace policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, said there is not enough investment in security from the companies creating technology products.
"When you're the eighth in the United States in web traffic, you're going to be a target," Ohanian said.Ī "meaningful portion" of investment being made by Reddit is in security, but Ohanian said that there are "no shortage of things to be working on." Ohanian said cybersecurity is a cost that any successful website needs to address. For 30 minutes Reddit users had trouble accessing the service or couldn't access it at the speed they expected. websites hit by the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) hack last week.
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