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Phlog -- When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops

'...[the] response that Facebook sent back ... includes text printouts of Markoff's wall posts, photos he uploaded as well as photos he was tagged in, a comprehensive list of friends with their Facebook IDs (which we've redacted), and a long table of login and IP data. This document was publicly released by Boston Police as part of the case file. In other case documents, the police have clearly redacted sensitive information. And while the police were evidently comfortable releasing Markoff's unredacted Facebook subpoena, we weren't. Markoff may be dead, but the very-much-alive friends in his friend list were not subpoenaed, and yet their full names and Facebook ID's were part of the document. So we took the additional step of redacting as much identifying information as we could -- knowing that any redaction we performed would be imperfect, but believing that there's a strong argument for distributing this, not only for its value in illustrating the Markoff case, but as a rare window into the shadowy process by which Facebook deals with law enforcement.' -- Innocent until associated with the guilty.

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7 weeks ago by adamcrowe

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CNET News -- Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops

'Blackburn, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that the Fifth Amendment posed no barrier to his decryption order. The Fifth Amendment says that nobody may be "compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself," which has become known as the right to avoid self-incrimination. "I find and conclude that the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop computer," Blackburn wrote in a 10-page opinion today. He said the All Writs Act, which dates back to 1789 and has been used to require telephone companies to aid in surveillance, could be invoked in forcing decryption of hard drives as well. Prosecutors in this case have stressed that they don't actually require the passphrase itself, and today's order appears to permit Fricosu to type it in and unlock the files without anyone looking over her shoulder. They say they want only the decrypted data and are not demanding "the password to the drive, either orally or in written form."'

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january 2012 by adamcrowe

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OSnews -- Richard Stallman Was Right All Along

'The crux of the matter here is that unlike the days of yore, where repressive regimes needed elaborate networks of secret police and informants to monitor communication, all they need now is control over the software and hardware we use. Our desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and all manner of devices play a role in virtually all of our communication. Think you're in the clear when communicating face-to-face? Think again. How did you arrange the meet-up? Over the phone? The web? And what do you have in your pocket or bag, always connected to the network? This is what Stallman has been warning us about all these years - and most of us, including myself, never really took him seriously. However, as the world changes, the importance of the ability to check what the code in your devices is doing - by someone else in case you lack the skills - becomes increasingly apparent. If we lose the ability to check what our own computers are doing, we're boned.'

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january 2012 by adamcrowe

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Martin Backes -- New Artwork: Pixelhead

'The full face mask Pixelhead acts as media camouflage, completely shielding the head to ensure that your face is not recognizable on photographs taken in public places without securing permission. A simple piece of fabric creates a little piece of anonymity for the Internet age.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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AnonOS

'The AnonOS Project is a family of Linux liveCDs custom-built for Anonymous, by Anonymous, with all the software they need. More than that, it is to make a kit that will teach newfags everything that has to be known during raids, such as using tools, gathering dox, making programs and generally succeeding in life.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- We Live in Public

'Among Harris' experiments touched on in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 artists in a human terrarium under New York City, with myriad webcams following and capturing every move the artists made. The pièce de résistance was a Japanese-style capsule hotel outfitted with cameras in every pod, and screens that allowed each occupant to monitor the other pods installed in the basement by artist Jeff Gompertz. The film's website describes how, "With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public."'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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danah boyd | apophenia -- Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook

'Mikalah uses Facebook but when she goes to log out, she deactivates her Facebook account. ...when she’s not logged in, no one can post messages on her wall or send her messages privately or browse her content. But when she’s logged in, they can do all of that. And she can delete anything that she doesn’t like. ...she wants to be a part of Facebook when it makes sense and not risk the possibility that people will be snooping when she’s not around. ...you’re not searchable when you’re not around. You really are invisible except when you’re there. And when you’re there, your friends know it, which is great. What Mikalah does gives her the ability to let Facebook be useful to her when she’s present but not live on when she’s not. -- Shamika doesn’t deactivate her Facebook profile but she does delete every wall message, status update, and Like shortly after it’s posted. When she’s done reading a friend’s comment on her page, she’ll delete it. ...“too much drama.”' -- Ghosts in the shell

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Electronic Frontier Foundation -- HTTPS Everywhere

'Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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BitLaundry - Anonymizing your BTC Transactions

'BitLaundry is designed to help unlink accounts from each other.'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Cypherpunk

'A cypherpunk is an activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. As the Cypherpunk Manifesto says "Cypherpunks write code"; the notion that good ideas need to be implemented, not just discussed, is very much part of the culture. John Gilmore, whose site hosted the original cypherpunks mailing list, wrote: "We are literally in a race between our ability to build and deploy technology, and their ability to build and deploy laws and treaties. Neither side is likely to back down or wise up until it has definitively lost the race."'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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No Free Lunch From The Hackers by Paul Rosenberg

'As for the battle we face now: We are facing-off against the biggest intel agencies, the biggest tech companies and some of the biggest crooks in the world. Even with all the technology we now have for avoiding surveillance, we estimate that there are between 4 and 5 million people worldwide that use it, maximum. That equates to less than one percent. There are roughly 2 billion Internet users in the world (266 million in North America, 475 million in Europe, 825 million in Asia, 205 million in Latin America), but only 5 million using the things that hackers provide. The truth is that a lot of people think they can piggy-back on a bunch of guys who are internally driven to protect the Internet. They are wrong; the hackers have bills to pay, and if customers won’t pay them, they can’t make a living hacking crypto. Markets are what they are, and people will not continue to provide unrewarded services. -- ... we need alternate networks, not alternate endpoints.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- NMA: Are parents' online habits putting kids in peril?

'Online social media is not just for adults anymore. A new study claims that 80% of children in the western world have some form of social media presence by the time they reach age 2.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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DISCOVER Magazine -- We Need to Reclaim Our Private Spaces by Sherry Turkle

'Not a few sum up their position by saying in one way or another, “The way to deal is to just be good.” But sometimes a citizenry should not “be good.” You have to leave room for this—space for dissent, real dissent. You need to leave technical space (a sacrosanct mailbox) and mental space. The two are intertwined. We make our technologies, and they, in turn, make and shape us. In a democracy, perhaps we all need to begin with the assumption that everyone has something to hide, a zone of private action and reflection, a zone that needs to be protected. My hope is that we rediscover our need for privacy. To me, opening up a conversation about rethinking the Net, privacy, and civil society is not backward-looking nostalgia in the least. It seems like part of a healthy process of democracy defining its sacred spaces.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Facebook's battle with privacy and profit

'It is a game of privacy cat and mouse that has prompted some users to rebel and others to unconsciously outsmart Facebook. Social technology commentator Laurent Haug believes changes to the privacy settings are altering the way people use Facebook. "People understood that their privacy was at risk and therefore they will falsify the information. Fewer of us are putting down our real details, many of us fabricate our lives online and some even have multiple identities on Facebook. There is a real possibility then that much of the personal data Facebook has been collecting from us might actually be false.' -- Haha! Poison the well.

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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THE CYPHERNOMICON: Cypherpunks FAQ

'2.3. "What's the 'Big Picture'? 2.3.1. Strong crypto is here. It is widely available. 2.3.2. It implies many changes in the way the world works. Private channels between parties who have never met and who never will meet are possible. Totally anonymous, unlinkable, untraceable communications and exchanges are possible. 2.3.3. Transactions can only be *voluntary*, since the parties are untraceable and unknown and can withdraw at any time. This has profound implications for the conventional approach of using the threat of force, directed against parties by governments or by others. In particular, threats of force will fail. 2.3.4. What emerges from this is unclear, but I think it will be a form of anarcho-capitalist market system I call "crypto anarchy."' 2.5.3. "Who needs crypto? What have they got to hide?" + honest people need crypto because there are dishonest people - people encrypt for the same reason they close and lock their doors'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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GoogleSharing: A Special Kind Of Proxy

'GoogleSharing is a special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent Google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit. The GoogleSharing system consists of a custom proxy and a Firefox Addon. The proxy works by generating a pool of GoogleSharing "identities," each of which contains a cookie issued by Google and an arbitrary User-Agent for one of several popular browsers. The Firefox Addon watches for requests to Google services from your browser, and when enabled will transparently redirect all of them (except for things like Gmail) to a GoogleSharing proxy. There your request is stripped of all identifying information and replaced with the information from a GoogleSharing identity.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Ghostery

'Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity. Ghostery allows you to block scripts from companies that you don't trust.' -- KILL IT WITH FIRE!

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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F.A.T. -- Google Alarm

'Google is collecting a lot of data about how we use the web. The new Google Alarm Firefox addon visually & audibly alerts you whenever your personal information is being sent to Google servers.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- The night I was cyberstalked on Foursquare

'Standing at the front desk of a restaurant on the phone with a complete stranger was the absolute last thing I expected from a harmless tweet about meeting friends from the internet and a link to my location. "I like to hang out with people from the internet too. Maybe we should hang out sometime. What do you think about that?" -- I haven't been able to stop thinking about what happened. I'm angry. I feel like someone violated an understanding that all of us generally nice people online have – you don't cross the line. I'm also terrified. Who is this person? Who would do something like that?'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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WindMill Networking -- Facebook in Japan: Will it Blend? How to Compete with Mixi?

'#1. Mixi Users Tend to Use Nicknames. #2. Who’s Viewed Your Facebook Profile? We don’t know who’s viewed our Facebook profile. Mixi users feel safe in using Mixi because they can see who has viewed their profile with the “ashiato” (“footprint”) functionality. This is not a for-fee service like LinkedIn: it is a fundamental part of the Mixi platform that is guaranteed for all users. Will Facebook create this functionality for the Japanese market? #3. Mixi is Community-Centric. Aligned with using nicknames, Mixi users join a lot of communities where they can learn new information all the while keeping their anonymity. Facebook has its share of Groups, which are similar to Mixi communities, but again, there is no anonymity in Facebook. This could potentially make it harder to create the same types of strong communities that are one of the cornerstones of Mixi.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E06: "Thunder in the Skies"

'Thunder in the Skies implicates the Little Ice Age (ca. 1250-1300 AD) in the invention of the chimney, as well as knitting, buttons, wainscoting, wall tapestries, wall plastering, glass windows, and the practice of privacy for sleeping and sex.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC: The Virtual Revolution -- Sherry Turkle (Digital Revolution Rushes Sequence)

Turkle: "There's a kind of self-surveillance that young poeple don't think about... What is intimacy without privacy? This is really a question for this generation. -- Philosophers tell us that we become human when we’re confronted with another face, with a voice, with the inflection of a voice; these kids don’t want to see a face, they don’t want to hear a voice. They want to text. In a way we’re no longer nourished but consumed by what we’ve created. It’s not all good. I see people in retreat as much as they are in advance now that they have all this information. I see people defining a successful self as a self that can keep up with its email. -- We live in a kind of paradoxical time. We’re giving young people a very paradoxical message: The world is more and more complex; on the other hand, we’re only going to ask you a question that you can answer in two seconds. We leave ourselves less and less time for reflection because our communications media push us to quick responses."

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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Software Freedom Law Center -- Freedom In the Cloud (Anti-Facebook Rant)

'The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. Because he harnessed Friday night. That is, everybody needs to get laid and he turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human personality and he has to a remarkable extent succeeded with a very poor deal. Namely, “I will give you free web hosting and some PHP doodads and you get spying for free all the time”. And it works. Facebook is the Web with “I keep all the logs, how do you feel about that?” It’s a terrarium for what it feels like to live in a panopticon built out of web parts. -- I’m not lamenting progress of a sort of democratizing kind. On the contrary, I’m lamenting progress of a totalizing kind. I’m lamenting progress hostile to human freedom. We have to fess up if we’re the people who care about freedom, it’s late in the game and we’re behind. '

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Independent Institute -- Will Strong Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete? (2001)

'You and I sign a contract. In the contract, we specify a private arbitrator. The contract includes the private arbitrator’s public key. The contract is digitally signed by both you and me. Now, you think I violated the contract. You demand arbitration. The arbitrator rules that I owe you damages. I refuse to pay. The arbitrator writes a brief statement that I agreed to—that he would be the arbitrator of disputes, that he gave a verdict, and that I refused to pay the damages. Digitally signs it and gives it to you. You now have a package. That package consists of the original contract which I digitally signed, so provably I agreed to it, and the arbitrator’s verdict, which he digitally signed, so provably the arbitrator I agreed to, said that I cheated. You may now e-mail that package to anybody else in the industry. -- You want the arbitrator who gets the right result at low cost. This is a market mechanism for generating efficient law for the private market.'

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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Times Online -- Can you disappear in surveillance Britain?

'Leaving the detectives’ office, Bond used a term to describe his feelings that he’s since concluded is inappropriate, but it gives an idea how strongly he felt at the time. He called it data-rape. -- The journalist and privacy campaigner Henry Porter told Bond that privacy is like eyesight, or touch: “It’s that important.” Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of the campaign No2ID, broadly agrees. “Privacy is not something that people feel, except in its absence. Remove it and you destroy something at the heart of being human.”'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Washington Post -- The latest Facebook fracas: Your privacy vs. its profit

'FB: "working with some partner Web sites that we pre-approve to offer a more personalized experience" at those sites. The potential downside seems obvious. You'll see that some random site knows who your Facebook friends are and fret about other once-private information Facebook might be leaking. But what will you be able to do when so much of your life is tied up there? As Sherry Turkle, a sociologist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in an e-mail Thursday: "There is a sense of the 'investment' in Facebook being so great that one is beholden to it. This is not empowering."'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Spokeo

'Uncover personal photos, videos, and secrets.' -- 'Spokeo is a search engine specialized in organizing people-related information from phone books, social networks, marketing lists, business sites, and other public sources. Most of this data is publicly available on the Web.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Stowe Boyd -- Don't Be Afraid Of Foursquare, But We Need Circles Of Trust

'Consider a young woman, Chloe, who has a close set of confidants – say 15 friends, both male and female – to whom she is extremely close. She also is part of a larger scene of 100 people or people that she sees frequently, but knows less well. And she may part of a even larger sphere ... Imagine if her geolocational information was propagated in correspondingly less detail as her Foursquare posts moved outward through these circles of trust. Her inner circle might see exactly where she is -- a certain corner of a certain bar -- and also might receive that information in real-time. Her 100 or so good friends might learn that she is in the Meatpacking district, or Nolita, but specifics would be blurred. So if one of that 100 had been invited to the same party they might be able to infer that Chloe was there, too. But they would have to directly ask her to get confirmation, and she could simply opt not to respond. And that information might be delayed by 15 minutes or 30 minutes, also.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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danah boyd -- "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity"

'For marketers and analysts... This is an exciting era of publicity, one in which you have more access to data than ever before, one in which you can see people who were previously invisible. But just because you are able to see people doesn't mean that they want to be seen by you. And just because you think you can interpret what you see doesn't mean you will do so accurately. We are becoming a data-driven society... but please realize that just because you have access to numbers doesn't mean that the numbers tell the full picture. Or that people will be happy to hear that you have this information. Just because a large percentage of people engage in public does not mean that they don't care about privacy. If you remember that privacy is about maintaining a sense of control, you can understand why Privacy is Not Dead. Observing people’s data traces gives no indication of whether or not they are trying to be public or private. You need to understand their intentions...'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Spiked -- Google: a ‘frenemy’ of the internet generation

'I was always irritated by Google’s ‘don’t be evil’ motto... Businesses have no right to describe themselves as ‘good’ or ‘evil’, but should rather be judged by the quality of their products and their ability to sustain and develop them. -- There is no doubt in my mind that Google’s retention of search data is a huge invasion of privacy. The only reason that Google has got away with doing this for as long as it has is because most people are not bothered by the practice. But this is because of the prevalent blasé approach to personal privacy that exists in society, not because of anything that Google has done. Anybody who wishes to challenge Google’s right to retain data should be aiming to change society’s view on privacy, not blaming Google for taking advantage of the status quo.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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LogMeIn - Virtual Networking with LogMeIn Hamachi²

'Connect multiple users and computers together on a secure, private network, regardless of location, over the public Internet.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Remobo - Instant Private Network ™ Application

'Remobo creates an Instant Private Network ™ (IPN) between users. It's like a computer network for your social network.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Onion -- Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology

'"I'd like nothing more than to apologize in person to everyone we've let down, but as you can see, many of our users are rarely home at this hour," said Google cofounder and president Sergey Brin, pointing to several Google Map street-view shots of empty bedroom and living room windows on a projection screen behind him. "And, if last night's searches are any indication, Boston's Robert Hornick is probably out shopping right now for the spaghetti and clam sauce he'll be cooking tonight." "Either that, or hunting down that blond coworker of his, Samantha, whose Picasa photos he stares at every night," Brin added.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Google Video -- Steve Rambam: Privacy Is Dead, Get Over It

'Emphasis will be placed on discussing the "digital footprints" that we all leave in our daily lives, and how it is now possible for an investigator (or government Agent) to determine a person's likes and dislikes, religion, political beliefs, sexual orientation, habits, hobbies, friends, family, finances, health and even the person's actual physical whereabouts at any given moment, solely by the use of online data and related activity.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- The Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free

'Aleks gives the lowdown on how, for better and for worse, commerce has colonised the web - and reveals how web users are paying for what appear to be 'free' sites and services in hidden ways. Aleks explores how web advertising is evolving further to become more targeted and relevant to individual consumers. Recommendation engines, pioneered by retailers such as Amazon, are also breaking down the barriers between commerce and consumer by marketing future purchases to us based on our previous choices. On the surface, the web appears to have brought about a revolution in convenience. But, as companies start to build up databases on our online habits and preferences, Aleks questions what this may mean for our notions of privacy and personal space in the 21st century.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wei Zhou’s Blog -- From dating experience to real identity crisis of the web

'Today we are not who we really are, we are what google says who we are. Everything is openly connected and we’ve been trying so hard to make things open: making browsers more open, more social and more you, making everything connected, making open IDs. Suddenly we found out: The more we try to design for “you”, the less “you” can express yourself freely. When we talk about user experience, we always say we are engaging in making people’s life better. Nowadays we’re even trying to embed the most intricate and sophisticated human emotions into the consideration of design: like religious needs and sexual needs. However we designed a huge system that ignore the most basic one: The need to lie. Or they need the freedom to lie. If we are really aiming to design a YOU centric web, this question becomes unavoidable and probably be the hottest one in the next 10 years: How do we design a web that people can have real freedom within?'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Sherry Turkle

'THE INTERNET DISCONNECT -- You feel in a zone that is private and ephemeral. But the Internet is public and forever. -- The psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson argued that adolescents needed an experience of "moratorium," a time and space for relatively consequence-free experimentation. They need to fall in and out of love with people and ideas. I have argued that the Internet provides such spaces and is thus a rich ground for working through identity. But over time, it has become clear that the idea of the moratorium space does not easily mesh with a life that generates its own electronic shadow. Over time, many find a way to ignore or deny the shadow. For teenagers, the need for a moratorium space is so compelling that they will recreate it as fiction. And indeed, leaving an electronic trace can come to seem so natural that the shadow seems to disappear. We want to forget that we have become the instruments of our own surveillance.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Bruce Schneier -- The Eternal Value of Privacy

"If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" -- ...if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that -- either now or in the uncertain future -- patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable. -- Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. ...we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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danah boyd -- "Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media"

'The public and networked nature of the Internet creates the potential for visibility. We have the ability to see into the lives of so many people who are different than us. But only when we choose to look. So who is looking? Why are they looking? And in what context are they interpreting what they see? By and large, those who are looking are those who hold power over the person being observed. Parents look. Teachers look. Employers look. Governments look. Corporations look. These people are often looking to judge or manipulate. Given the powerful position they are in, those doing the looking often think that they have the right to look. But do they have the right to judge? The right to manipulate? This, of course, is the essence of conversations about surveillance. And so we argue and argue and argue about the right to privacy in public spaces. -- One of the reasons why people fear the technologies we make are because they make thing visible that we don't like.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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apophenia -- Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy norms

'Public-ness has always been a privilege. For a long time, only a few chosen few got to be public figures. Now we've changed the equation and anyone can theoretically be public, can theoretically be seen by millions. So it mustn't be a privilege anymore, eh? Not quite. There are still huge social costs to being public, social costs that geeks in Silicon Valley don't have to account for. Not everyone gets to show up to work whenever they feel like it wearing whatever they'd like and expect a phatty paycheck. Not everyone has the opportunity to be whoever they want in public and demand that everyone else just cope. I know there are lots of folks out there who think that we should force everyone into the public so that we can create a culture where that IS the norm. Not only do I think that this is unreasonable, but I don't think that this is truly what we want. -- It kills me when the bottom line justifies social oppression. Is that really what the social media industry is about?'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Mike Rivero on Alex Jones TV 1/4: America Has Become The Evil Empire

'Alex & Mike go over the latest on the full body scanners now going into airports all across america, and discuss how this is not only bad for your health, but also is Government sponsored "PORNOGRAPHY!!!"' -- PORNSEC. RADIATE. MONEYMAKE. THIS WARN YOU.

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- New scanners break child porn laws

'Shami Chakrabarti, of Liberty, had concerns over the "instant" introduction of scanners: "Where are the government assurances that electronic strip-searching is to be used in a lawful and proportionate and sensitive manner based on rational criteria rather than racial or religious bias?" she said.' -- False-flag 'testicle bomber' as elaborate advert for anti-terror body scanner technology. OBVIOUS.

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Spiked -- The right to privacy in the Age of Facebook

'Seligman argues that there is a fundamental difference between *trust in people* (interpersonal relationships) and *confidence in institutions*. (The same would apply to technological systems, though this is not Seligman’s focus.) -- This goes to the heart of what trust actually is: a relationship that is not based upon reciprocal calculation, but is open-ended. Trust is therefore a very rare thing indeed. And because it is based on free will, trust cannot be demanded, only offered and accepted. -- Our relationships with state institutions are based upon confidence rather than trust: roles are ascribed while outcomes are intended and expected. There is neither unconditionality nor active engagement, but a passive relationship based on prescribed roles that are not subject to change or control. -- The defence of privacy as a political right needs to be re-established... Individuated conformity is not the basis upon which a robust defence of privacy can be mounted.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims

'The report says there is very little concrete evidence on the importance of the DNA match in leading to a conviction and whether the suspect would have been identified by other means anyway. It argues the database creates "pre-suspects" who are the first to be checked whenever a new crime is entered. This leads to a "no smoke without fire" culture that may be pervasive and hard to overcome.' -- Nothing to do with meeting 'targets' for corporatist profits??

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- Every phone call, email and internet click stored by 'state spying' databases

BOYCOTT! -- 'The firms involved in keeping the data, such as as Orange, BT and Vodafone, will be reimbursed at a cost to the taxpayer of £2billion over 10 years. -- Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "The Big Brother ambitions of a group of senior Whitehall technocrats are delayed but not diminished. We need a bold alliance of phone companies who fear losing public trust and concerned citizens to come together in opposition to these plans."'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth

Rubbernecking 2.0 -- 'Moore’s [tweeted] coverage was quickly picked up by bloggers and mainstream media outlets alike, something that she actively encouraged so she could tell them the truth, rather than the speculative bullshit that was hitting the wires. There was just one problem: Moore’s information was bullshit too. -- ... the ‘real time web’ is turning all of us into inhuman egotists. Her behaviour had nothing to do with getting the word out; it wasn’t about preventing harm to others, but rather a simple case of – “look at me looking at this.” I’m sure she genuinely believed she was helping get the real truth out, and making an actual difference. And that’s precisely the problem: none of us think we’re being selfish or egotistic when we tweet something...' -- On Neda Agha Soltan's death: '...the last thing that terrified girl saw before she closed her eyes for the final time was some guy pointing a cameraphone at her. “Look at me, looking at her, looking back at me.”'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Are tweens too socially immature for twitter and/or fame and/or the internet?

'“I stopped living for moments and started living for people.” — Miley Cyrus, 2009 -- I was reading that popular tween sensation Miley Cyrus deactivated her twitter account. It will go down in history as the ‘most tragic’ internet suicide of all time, since she had over 2 million followers. I have read ‘doomsday articles’ that say this is ‘the end of twitter’, since tweeple now have role models who were ’strong enough’ to quit twitter. Instead of mimicking role models who are ‘twitter addicts’, tweens will now be more independent and mimmick role models who are ‘twitter quitters. A lifestream of text filled with 140 character statements just doesn’t give U enough room to BE U. It seems like maybe she turned to ’social media’ to try to replicate human relationships+interactions+socialspheres, but it was just this weird experience of ‘people looking at her.’ -- Just want my life 2 belong 2 me, but also want my life to make other people feel jealous/bored with their own existences.'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Anti-wi-fi paint offers security

'Researchers say they have created a special kind of paint which can block out wireless signals. It means security-conscious wireless users could block their neighbours from being able to access their home network - without having to set up encryption. The paint contains an aluminium-iron oxide which resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi - or other radio waves - meaning the airborne data is absorbed and blocked. By coating an entire room, signals can't get in and, crucially, can't get out. -- Mr Ohkoshi hopes that soon the technology could be woven into clothing. "We're not sure about the true effects of electromagnetic waves, in this range, on the human body. "We're assuming that excessive exposure could be bad for us. Therefore we're trying to make protective clothes for young children or pregnant women to help protect their bodies from such waves."'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Times Online -- Crimespotting: the new way to make money on the Internet

'A network of citizen crimewatchers will be given the chance of winning up to £1,000 by monitoring CCTV security cameras over the internet. The cameras’ owners will pay a fee to have users watch the footage. The scheme, Internet Eyes, is being promoted as a game and is expected to go “live” next month with a test run in Stratford-upon-Avon. Eventually the consortium behind the idea hopes to have internet users around the world focused on Britain’s 4.2 million security cameras, waiting to see and report a crime in return for cash prizes. The project has already attracted criticism from civil liberties groups, which claim it could turn Britain into a “snoopers’ paradise”. They fear nosey neighbours could spy on homeowners putting the wrong rubbish in their bins and report motorists for the most minor misdemeanours.' -- CRIMESTOP PROLEFEED MONEYMAKE. WITNESS FILE REPORT. WITNESS UNFILE COMPLICIT ACCOMPLICE. SEND JOYCAMP. THIS WARN YOU.

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Salon Life -- Why we can't stop looking

'Peep culture involves watching and being watched, snooping and spying, gawking and gossiping; it means exposing our intimacies with an eye toward bonding with others and growing comfortable with the increasingly common slippage between public and private. Peep culture, like pop culture, informs the atmosphere — it is the atmosphere — in which we live. Writes Niedzviecki, “It’s like that famous line about pornography: you know it when you see it. And you do see it. All the time, everyday, everywhere. -- ...people like Twitter because it's connection with low expectations. And that's a phrase that has stuck with me and has become almost an overarching explanation for the whole peep culture phenomenon. ...we want the feeling of connection without the weight of being expected to do something.”

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Associated Press -- Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats

'Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their children's chat messages — and sell the marketing data gathered. Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send back data on what kids are saying about such things as movies, music or video games. The information is then offered to businesses seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids. -- Competing data-mining companies such as J.D. Power Web Intelligence, a unit of quality ratings firm J.D. Power and Associates, also trolls the Internet for consumer chats. But Vice President Chase Parker said the company does not read any data that's password-protected, such as the instant message sessions that EchoMetrix collects for advertisers.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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zero hedge -- From Switzerland With No Love - Wegelin Bank Says Goodbye [to America]

Swiss private bank, Wegelin & Co., bids the U.S. "moralizers" a bittersweet (lulz) farewell after having been forced to name names in a tax evasion witchunt. -- '#Farewell America - #An unusual form of self-financing: "A look at who are the most important creditors of America's highly indebted public finances reveals something truly remarkable. It is the public authorities themselves!" - #Hopelessly in debt: "A Ponzi scheme, for that is undoubtedly what we are talking about, goes on working as long as its growing overindebtedness does not arouse any doubt..." - #Rats leaving the sinking ship - #Unattractive anyway: "Potential aggression and economic progress are mutually exclusive. Which is why we are well advised to take a general farewell of America. This will be painful, for the USA was once the most vital market economy in the world. But for now, it's time to say goodbye." -- Amazing. That it has come to this!

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Mozilla -- Geolocation in Firefox

'How do I turn off Location-Aware Browsing permanently? Location-Aware Browsing is always opt-in in Firefox 3.5. No location information is ever sent without your permission. If you wish to disable the feature completely, please follow this set of steps: In the URL bar, type - Type geo.enabled - Double click on the geo.enabled preference - Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Crypto Rebels (1993)

'The people in this room hope for a world where an individual's informational footprints -- everything from an opinion on abortion to the medical record of an actual abortion -- can be traced only if the individual involved chooses to reveal them; a world where coherent messages shoot around the globe by network and microwave, but intruders and feds trying to pluck them out of the vapor find only gibberish; a world where the tools of prying are transformed into the instruments of privacy. There is only one way this vision will materialize, and that is by widespread use of cryptography. Is this technologically possible? Definitely. "Arise," urges one of their numbers, "You have nothing to lose but your barbed-wire fences."'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Register -- Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data

'Two people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years. The power to force people to unscramble their data was granted to authorities in October 2007. Between 1 April, 2008 and 31 March this year the first two convictions were obtained.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Onion: Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village

'Web users who choose to move to the desolate village are guaranteed an environment free from Google products and natural light from the sun.' -- <3 u google dont let the h8rz get u down :(

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Smokescreen

'"You don't know me, but I know you..." Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online. We all use Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and MSN to keep up with our mates - and we've all heard the stories about parties on Facebook being mobbed, or people getting stalked on MSN. The question is, what would you do if it happened to you? -- Smokescreen is a game about online identity, trust, and privacy. Launching in September, Smokescreen is from Channel 4 and Six to Start.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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TrueCrypt -- Hidden Volume

'It may happen that you are forced by somebody to reveal the password to an encrypted volume. There are many situations where you cannot refuse to reveal the password (for example, due to extortion). Using a so-called hidden volume allows you to solve such situations without revealing the password to your volume.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Deniable encryption

'In cryptography and steganography, deniable encryption is encryption that allows its user to deny the fact that he encrypted a file or partition, even if he actually did encrypt. Deniable encryption allows an encrypted message to be decrypted to different sensible plaintexts, depending on the key used, or otherwise makes it impossible to prove the existence of the real message without the proper encryption key. This allows the sender to have plausible deniability if compelled to give up his or her encryption key.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Schneier on Security -- Laptop Security while Crossing Borders

'Encrypt the data to a key you don't know. It sounds crazy, but stay with me. Caveat: Don't try this at home if you're not very familiar with whatever encryption product you're using. Failure results in a bricked computer. Don't blame me.' -- Comment: florian: 'This could be the basis of an interesting startup. One sends the key to this startup which transfers it to several persons out of a set of a lot of people, randomly so that no-one at the startup know who got the key. After successful arrival, one notifies the startup which then notifies all people. Those who got the key then physically transfer it to the traveler. This wouldn't be just plausible deniability, this would mean that one truly doesn't know who got the key.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- The Paradox of Privacy

'While attitudes toward privacy can appear paradoxical, the seeming contradiction is really about something else: control. When people bare their bodies on Facebook or their souls in the digital confessional of Google’s search engine, they feel as if they are in charge. Not so, when the private embarrassments come to light unexpectedly. The subtle relationship between privacy and control has complicated things for marketers, too. Advertisers talk about having to move away from analog-era “push” tactics and embracing digital-age “pull” strategies, in which consumers are enticed into seeking information about a product or brand, rather than having ads foisted on them. Yet behavioral targeting is, in some ways, “push” marketing carried to its extreme, with the advertiser controlling not just the content of its message but also the audience for it. Even if privacy concerns are overcome, can targeting work once consumers realize they are being “pushed”?'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Celebrity Shielding Flashgun Handbag Defeats Paparazzi

'Beating up your paparazzi stalkers is so last century. The modern celeb might instead turn to non-contact (and non-litigious) means of protection, simultaneously spoiling the paparazzo’s pictures and destroying their parasitic, leach-like livelihood. Adam Harvey’s Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Bag is extraordinarily simple. It is a slave flash, an extra-bright LED light with a light detector. When it sees the flashgun pop on the photographer’s camera it fires a burst of its own, right back in the moron’s face and lens, flaring out the picture and in theory erasing the defender’s face.' -- The anti-facebook'd device.

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Forbes.com -- Your Own Private Internet

'The researchers, who previewed their concept to Forbes, say their model works like a private Internet on top of the existing public one: People can share information like files and messages via the Internet medium, but without the kind of public-facing personally identifiable information that Internet protocol addresses provide. "What we've done is taken the idea of a darknet and moved it into the browser platform," says Wood, the HP Web security researcher who developed the idea over the last several months. "This is really like a darknet for everyone. If you can use the Internet, you can use a darknet."'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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ipredator

"IPREDator is a network service that makes people online more anonymous using a VPN. it costs about 5 EUR per month and we store no traffic data. the network is under our control. not theirs. the pirate bay likes and knows real kopimism. and waffles."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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apophenia -- Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody

'Dylan: "as for twitter, we are totally not representative, but ya a lot of people use twitter. it's funny because the way they are using it is not the way most do... they make private accounts and little sub-communities form. like cliques, basically. so they can post stuff they don't want people on fb to see, since fb is everybody." -- What Dylan is pointing out is that the issue is that Facebook is public (to everyone who matters) and Twitter can be private because of the combination of tools AND the fact that it's not broadly popular.' [Darknets] 'My guess is that if Twitter does take off among teens and Dylan's friends feel pressured to let peers and parents and everyone else follow them, the same problem will arise and Twitter will become public in the same sense as Facebook. This of course raises a critical question: will teens continue to be passionate about systems that become "public" (to all that matter) simply because there's social pressure to connect to "everyone"?'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Who's Watching You?: Episode 3

"The programme explores how, increasingly, modern surveillance relies on computer databases watching and recording everyone, not just the criminals and terrorists. Richard Bilton talks to former insiders who question the government's argument that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, and who say it is an argument for total surveillance and a total security state."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Who's Watching You?: Episode 2

"Richard Bilton meets those who have made our private lives their business - ex-soldiers watching suspected workplace thieves, corporate spooks trawling companies' rubbish for lucrative secrets, suppliers in the booming trade in tracking devices, secret cameras and hidden microphones. He also delves into the criminal underworld of hackers and blaggers who steal and sell our information."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Who's Watching You?: Episode 1

"Richard Bilton explores the hidden world of surveillance. He goes inside the CCTV nerve centre, sees how all our journeys can be monitored and meets undercover agents, those who are watched and those who have fallen foul of modern surveillance."

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- One Tweet Over the Line

Not Meant for Public Consumption by Clay Shirky: "Society has always carved out space for young people to misbehave. We used to do this by making a distinction between behavior we couldn’t see, because it was hidden, and behavior we could see, because it was public. That bargain is now broken, because social life increasingly includes a gray area that is publicly available, but not for public consumption. Given this change, we need to find new ways to cut young people some slack. Privacy used to be enforced by inconvenience; you couldn’t just spy on anyone you wanted. Increasingly, though, privacy will have to be enforced by us grownups simply choosing not to look, since it’s none of our business."

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Time to Cash Out: Why Paper Money Hurts the Economy

"Physical currency is a bulky, germ-smeared, carbon-intensive, expensive medium of exchange. Let's dump it." -- *sigh* -- "Killing currency wouldn't be a trauma; it'd be euthanasia. We have the technology to move to a more efficient, convenient, freely flowing medium of exchange. Emoney is no longer just a matter of geeks playing games." -- Backed by... ? FFS, Wired, get a fukken clue.

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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Network Advertising Initiative -- Opt Out
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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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Vodafone Receiver -- I’ll take my community to go

'Robert Bornstein talks about "dual dependency": the desire to have portable technologies nearby all the time and the desire to have other people always reachable at a moment's notice. Several people told me that they felt naked without their cell phones on them at all times and that they sleep with their computers or cell phones in their beds with them! Many more keep the devices not too far away at night and feel uncomfortable and agitated when physically separated from them or when they must be turned off.' -- 'Kate Fox says that portable technologies help us restore the kind of continuous communication with our 'tribes' that was common in pre-industrial days. It is alienating to be physically separated from our friends and family, she argues. Cell phones reduce that alienation by restoring a kind of pre-modern sense of community in which people were in frequent, almost constant, contact. They return us, she says, to "the more natural and humane patterns of pre-industrial society."'

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- We Live In Public Trailer

'On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect it is having on our society as seen through the eyes of the greatest Internet pioneer youve never heard of, visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade, to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives.' -- I quit the interwebs

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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A comparison between surveillance and sousveillance

'#Surveillance: There is no privacy. Get used to it! #Sousveillance: There is no secrecy. Get used to it!'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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The 10 Hypotheses of equiveillance

'#1. (techlaw) Sousveillance will become a major force and industry, despite initial opposition. Like surveillance, sousveillance technology will outstrip many laws, and will be another example of technology moving forward more quickly than the legal framework that grows around it. -- #2. (privacy). Over the past 30 years, sousveillance practice has raised many new privacy, legal, and ethical issues, and these issues will become central as the sousveillance industry grows. #9. (differently abled). The space of those considered to be disabled will gradually expand, over time, as the technological threshold falls and the sousveillance industry grows.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Facebook at 5: Is It Growing Up Too Fast?

'PEOPLE, of course, sometimes like to keep secrets and maintain separate social realms — or at least a modicum of their privacy. But Facebook at almost 200 million members is a force that reinvents and tears at such boundaries. Teachers are yoked together with students, parents with their children, employers with their employees. Uniting disparate groups on a single Internet service runs counter to 50 years of research by sociologists into what is known as “homophily” — the tendency of individuals to associate only with like-minded people of similar age and ethnicity. Facebook is trying to teach members to use privacy settings to manage their network so they can speak discreetly only to certain friends, like co-workers or family members, as opposed to other “friends” like bosses or professional colleagues. But most Facebook users haven’t taken advantage of the privacy settings; the company estimates that only 20 percent of its members use them.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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UgoTrade -- Cory Doctorow: A Reverse Surveillance Society

'There are different abstraction layers at which you can experience the world and one of them is through the instrumentation of it. It is in some ways the inverse of the surveillance society. Surveillance is all about when people in authority know a lot about you. Instrumentation is when you know a lot about the world. And it allows you have more agency. When people know a lot about you it takes away your agency.' -- 'Being able to understand what is going on the world – How much RFI is there right now where I am standing? What frequencies is it running on? What are the aggregate histograms? Tell me about it. Are people looking at the web around here, or talking on their phones, or sending SMS? Am I in a spot where the thermal signature of lots of people is high or low? What was it like ten minutes ago? Is this typical or atypical of the characteristic histogram of thermal and electromagnetic energy in this space for this time, year on year, day on day, and hour on hour?'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Equiveillance

'Equiveillance is a state of equilibrium, or a desire to attain a state of equilibrium, between surveillance and sousveillance. It is sometimes confused with transparency. This balance (equilibrium) allows the individual to construct their own case from evidence they gather themselves, rather than merely having access to surveillance data that could possibly incriminate them. Sousveillance, in addition to transparency, can be used to preserve the contextual integrity of surveillance data. For example, a lifelong capture of personal experience could provide "best evidence" over external surveillance data, to prevent the surveillance-only data from being taken out of context.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Failures of social media

'Users have tended to migrate from site to site as new services become more fashionable and old services become overpopulated with lame late adopters or worse, too many of those people who cause “contexts to collide”: As Boyd explains, “In choosing what to say when, we account for both the audience and the context more generally. Some behaviors are appropriate in one context but not another, in front of one audience but not others. Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it’s often difficult to figure out what’s appropriate, let alone what can be understood.” When your current friends get to see how you interact with people who knew you decades ago, or when parents can scrutinize profile pages looking for insight into their children’s social life apart from them, it can be problematic.' -- (That 'contexts collide' observation is worth repeating)

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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