4 days ago
Linkorama : 10 Scariest and Most Annoying Facts about Google Chrome - Usually only those who hide something refer to critics as conspiracy theorists while others face the concerns and treat them with due diligence.
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1 month ago
Rod Begbie : "Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO - I've always hated "Clear", the pay-$100-to-skip-to-the-front-of-the-security-line card. Firstly, because it's private enterprise falsely dressed as security, and secondly because it creates a class system at the airport line. So my socialist side is smug [via] #
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1 month ago
Linkorama : No Secret Software! - It’s simple: when data is gathered and used for the people as part of civic processes (voting is a good example), processing it using secret software, especially if it’s a private-sector secret, should be totally out of bounds.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Will Profit Motive Undermine Trust in Truste? - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - That is the view of Truste, a 10-year-old non-profit organization that certifies that Web sites meet some minimum standards to protect the privacy of their users. The group is converting to for-profit status and selling the bulk of its newly created stock
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Rod Begbie : Charlie Brooker: These days, I assume that everything I do is probed and examined by omnipotent corporations - "The way things are going, I half-expect to hear a quiet electric "peep" noise each time I flush the toilet; another bowel movement logged by Bumland Security." [via] #
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2 month ago
Linkorama : 'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights - The governmental role that companies play online is taking on greater importance as their services — from online hangouts to virtual repositories of photos and video — become more central to public discourse around the world. It's a fallout of the Int
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Linkorama : How a G.P.S. Can Predict Group Behavio - Reality mining raises instant questions about privacy, especially when cellphone data is involved.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Do You Trust Google to Resist Data Mining Across Services? - I don't think we were aiming at a Google weakness. Its a basic security requirement for enterprises
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3 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : obstcp - obstcp: "Obfuscated TCP is a backwards-compatible modification to the TCP protocol which adds opportunistic encryption. It's designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet." Interesting!
nelson : Obfuscated TCP - Interesting opportunistic encryption
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wearehugh : Latest 'lost' laptop holds treasure-trove of unencrypted AT&T payroll data | NetworkWorld.com Community
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3 month ago
wearehugh : Take Me Off Your List - Forbes.com
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4 month ago
wearehugh : Schneier on Security: Our Data, Ourselves
Linkorama : Schneier on Security: Our Data, Ourselves - We need a comprehensive data privacy law...Or we can leave it to the market...But the long-term effects of this on society are toxic; we give up control of ourselves.
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4 month ago
nelson : Street View face blurring - Pretty amazing application of facial recognition technology
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4 month ago
nelson : ph34t the g00gl3 - Italians having none of being filmed on the street
Andy Baio : Italians flee Google Street View cameras on streets of Rome - they assumed the far-right government was trying to film them
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5 month ago
adamrg : Border Patrol "spot checks" on ferries provoke outrage in San Juan Islands - If you like your *intra-state* travel to be hijacked by the US Border Patrol, move to Washington State! Thanks McBush!
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6 month ago
adamrg : Tracking the nukes - and evidently radioactive cats. Not that I haul around radioactive materials... but still creepy invasive.
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6 month ago
43folders : Do Not Reply - via http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/773712485
Rod Begbie : Do Not Reply - The owner of donotreply.com blogs emails that have bounced to him when corporations (and government agencies) have sent email "from" @donotreply.com. [via] #
factoryjoe : Do Not Reply - There are only about handful of registered owners of a donotreply.com email address. What normally happens is some spammer slugs it in, or more likely an IT person decides they don’t want to deal with bounced emails one of their progra
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deusx : A Private Matter in the Backyard - New York Times - "Everybody, I guess, needs a mokki."
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Niall's technique for sniffing browser history to customize pages - very clever; instead of showing 50 bookmarking site buttons, only show the ones they actually use
43folders : Sniff browser history for improved user experience - That sound you just heard? That's a couple million people scurrying to hit "Clear History." Terrific work, though, Niall -- totally clever!
Rod Begbie : Sniff browser history for improved user experience - Clever hack -- sniff a user's browser history, work out what blogreading/bookmarking/OpenID sites they use, and reduce clutter by only display options for those sites. [via] #
factoryjoe : Sniff browser history for improved user experience - The social web has filled our websites with too much third-party clutter as we figure out the best way to integrate content with the favorite sites and preferences of our visitors. Intelligent websites should tune-in to the content prefe
deusx : Sniff browser history for improved user experience - "In this post I will teach you how to mine the rich treasure trove of personalization data sitting inside your visitor's browser history for deep personalization experiences."
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8 month ago
Rod Begbie : The Raw Story | US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search - Been putting off joining the EFF? Now might be a bloody good time to break out your chequebook. Anyone know of a link to the original New Yorker article on which this scare-story is based? [via] #
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8 month ago
wearehugh : John Nack on Adobe: Adobe and Omniture: Further details - "we can't find anyone who remembers." code and forget, code and forget.
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Omnidirectional (or public, or broadcast) identity - The idea is that your identity, or identity in general, can have different audiences. An omnidirectional identifier is something you use for being recognized by everybody. So if you go to the Verisign website, using HTTPS, their certificate declares their
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8 month ago
gleuschk : The Airport Security Follies - Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Opinion - New York Times Blog - we’ve gotten exactly the system we deserve
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8 month ago
Linkorama : How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time - A line needs to be drawn — Day-Glo bright — that demarcates the boundary between work and private life.
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