The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
The Battle for Power on the Internet
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/the_battle_for_1.html
A very interesting, if a bit long-ish (for the ‘net) article discussing the shifting power between the early Internet adopters and the johnny-come-lately corporate and government interests that are moving in now …
I feel this is very apropos, but, alas, can’t blog on it…
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Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/immigration-reform-dossiers/
I think what bothers many people is that 1984 was in the past and they expected it to stay that way. However, Big Brother just needed some more time …
Crime and Privacy
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/crime_and_privacy/
I got to admit that Scott makes an interesting argument for more == less. For those too lazy to read the article, here is his summary:
…In general, whenever privacy is lost in a democracy, it
Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/08/technology/security/shodan/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I touched this a bit earlier, but it is worth bringing up again. We, as a society, are running around with our pants down around our ankles and are not …
Will I be next? Our police state is working diligently to eliminate any sort of questioning of its actions. This is a critical issue to regaining our freedom as a representative democracy (if you think we live in one now …
Expose A Blatant Security Hole In AT&T’s Servers, Get 3.5 Years In Jail
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130318/23033422370/expose-blatant-security-hole-ats-servers-get-35-years-jail.shtml
I didn’t look beyond this article, so it is entirely possible that it is slanted so in favor of the accused that a balanced view would …
The Internet is a surveillance state
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
I kinda doubt this is news to any of my reader(s), but there is no privacy any more. Even if you want to live in a shack in the wilderness like the Unibomber …
Software maker faces jail because his product was illegally used
Robert Stuart legally sold gambling software to overseas online casinos but the program was used by others in N.Y.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/software_maker_faces_jail_because_his_product_was_illegally_used/
This is one of the ‘lesser’ impacts of our police …
Internet Explorer flaw being exploited by ad companies, analytics firm warns
Spider.io says that vulnerability which lets mouse movements be tracked all over the screen is being used to watch users’ onscreen attention across millions of web pages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/13/internet-explorer-flaw-exploit-companies
Don’t …