Again, before I get into discussing exactly what this email is about, I need to lay down the background on who’s who and what’s what. Otherwise, it’s easy for one to gloss over all of this and assume it doesn’t affect oneself, when in reality this potentially affects or could affect a large chunk of [...]
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Gizmodo recently ran a story (which in turn drew on and linked to a Popular Mechanics story) on what they termed “photography bullying” or the intimidation of photographers taking still pictures and/or video. One of the more interesting parts of the story is a quote from Bruce Schneier, well-known security expert currently employed by British [...] Continuing on with the airport security theme, even though the holiday travel season has came and went: Wired.com’s Threat Level blog reports on an attempt by the TSA to censor two bloggers who posted a TSA document describing screening procedures, sent to many major airports worldwide (not just in the US). According to one of [...] CNN recently published a commentary by Bruce Schneier that calls into question many of the “security” measures being put into place, in the name of stopping terrorism. This quote sets the tone for the entire piece, and I think it is something that a lot of people tend to forget, quickly: Terrorism is rare, [...] Maybe it’s just me, but the first thing I think of now when I hear “China” is “censorship.” Two recent articles on Freedom to Tinker address the new “mandatory” Green Dam software. The first article by Dan Wallach exposes just how powerful censorship software becomes when installed on the end user’s PC. Since I doubt [...] As (re-)discovered in a recent TechBlog article, Apple is embedding personal information in downloads from its iTunes music store. Assumably this is a way to help catch the “low-hanging fruit” of those who partake in unauthorized copying. Casting aside the ethical issues, this is rather horribly misguided if that’s Apple’s reason. Consider the following situation: [...] It’s a bit old, but just today I read an entry in Ed Truitt’s blog about how the Pentagon got infected with (what I would guess is) a Windows worm. To quote the quoted message: Someone infected thumb drives with the WORM then dropped them around the Pentagon parking lot. The employees, picked them up, [...] About a day ago Zack Whittaker posed the question: Has Internet Explorer ever been safe? Overall I think this is a pretty good write-up on the history of Internet Explorer for those who don’t understand its faults and/or are actually still using IE for serious Web browsing. I think on a greater scale, it’s a [...] |
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