Do you ask people questions about themselves?
My friend L and I had been hanging out together for a few months, but they almost never asked me...
Archive for Privacy
Attacking the compiler: Xcode and “Trusting Trust”
The Intercept recently published a long but interesting article about (among other things) CIA-connected researchers' attempts to subvert Xcode, the...
Some pros and cons of Glass
Mat Honan wore Google Glass for much of 2013; in an article for Wired, he talks about what it's like...
Border searches still legal
A US judge has ruled (in agreement with various other court decisions and administrative rules) that it's still OK to...
The transparent society: arriving soon?
I read only an excerpt from David Brin's 1998 nonfiction book The Transparent Society, but the gist of its argument...
Person of Interest and the total surveillance society
Yesterday, I watched the pilot of the new CBS show Person of Interest. It's pretty good in a variety of...
Remember: your photos may reveal your location
Just a reminder that digital photos often include data about where they were taken, so if you post photos online,...
Treat Facebook like a public blog
I sympathize with the privacy concerns people have been expressing for some time about Facebook. A few months back, I...
In praise of anonymity
A long discussion of anonymity and pseudonymity.
Items: Technology and society
These and the Bussard stuff in the previous entry seem to sort of fit into a general theme, something to...