Diaspora is now available as a developer release.

Office photocopiers are a significant information security problem because of their hard drives and network openness.

Step-by-step help on installing Cygwin to enable SSH connections for use with Synergy (virtual KVM switch).

Firefox extension by Glenn Jones that uses the Google Social Graph API to identify people based on the rel="me" link attribute. Easy to use—for example “Ctrl + I” (Mac) or “Alt + I” (Windows) on someone’s Twitter profile page—it pulls in available data from the present site and any other social web sites it can. According to Google’s API, the plugin can identify public URLs that belong to the person being looked up, and publicly declared connections between that person and others. Quick feedback on the identifying information you publish about yourself online.

In answer to the question (which I haven’t read), flabdablet responds with a technique for SSL tunnelling using Amazon EC2.

Frederic Lardinois on the Whitehouse’s recent decision to abandon YouTube for content distribution via Akamai's CDN. Seems like a good move to me.

John Markoff on whether the Internet needs to start over to make it more secure and more scalable.