‘Maintaining that a personal device fingerprint has “no direct association with any specific individual” is unbelievably specious’

Q.F.T.

Lying scum.

Perhaps this would more appropriately be titled "Privacy is not mistrust". A simple exposition on the fact that even if we trust everyone, sometimes we'd rather not be sharing our lives with them at that moment.

I, too, feel a long way from fine.

Google makes billions of dollars in revenue each fiscal quarter. That money comes about by the same process that all companies use: They sell a product to their customers. Their customers pay money for that product. Who's Google's customer? You? Really? When's the last time you paid Google for anything? Advertisers are Google's customer. What do they sell to advertisers? They sell you. Or, at least, they rent you out, or provide access to you.

The DHS is McCarthyist in its operation. They do what they please with no regard for law, dignity, fairness or proper procedure, & they justify it with demonisation. Plus they're lying cunts.

“Right, hackers don’t know who your friends are. Unless Facebook tells them who your friends are, like for example by making the social graph public.”

The hazards of nerd supremacy: forced loss of privacy risks losing all the virtues of modern society.

Aliases valid for x days or y received messages; made with Redis & Node.js

A Yadis-type service spec intended to allow email addresses to be used as OpenIDs etc.

Crypto should be re-categorised as a weapon so the 2nd Amendment applies

Recover the key coding from a shitty long-distance photo of the legit keys

The British & the Union might have been reading their enemies encrypted communications long, long ago.

soap, ballot, jury... are we up to #4?

The homepage of the guy who developed it