Pinboard: bookmarks for jimray tagged 'privacy'

Says that monitoring traffic for copyrighted work would be expensive, a waste of time, a violation of their user's privacy and could make them liable for legal action. Man, I wish I could get FIOS to my apartment.

awesome telecom piracy privacy dumb burnhollywoodburn tumbl
february 2008 by jimray

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Apparently, customs can rummage through your computer hard drive at will

No warrant or suspicion required. Best to keep your secrets in an encrypted file and then you can at least try to plead the fifth when the ask for your password.

privacy travel government tumbl
january 2008 by jimray

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Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption passphrase

Said to be in violation of fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination. So... maybe PGP encrypt your iPod before the RIAA comes knocking.

cryptography government politics privacy tumbl
december 2007 by jimray

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Google gets political with a public policy blog

Sorta... odd. I'd expect this more from google.org than .com

google politics tumbl government privacy
june 2007 by jimray

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Who's a rat

"The largest online database of informants and agents" - is this for real?

legal government crime wtf privacy politics
june 2007 by jimray

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Gonzales wants to criminalize attempted copyright infringement

Fuck a duck, this is ridiculous. Do these asshats not have any sense of irony? This is the definition of fascism based on corporate/government collusion.

absurd dumb congress legal piracy privacy riaa copyright tumbl
may 2007 by jimray

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Google Web History - Good and Scary

A lot of folks (read: two) have asked my why I think the Google/Doubleclick deal is "evil." Anil Dash does a brilliant job of speaking for me.

google advertising privacy tumbl identity
april 2007 by jimray

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Google wants to index your browser history now

On the one hand, this is ridiculously cool. And ridiculously scary.

google search privacy tumbl
april 2007 by jimray

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Justice Department takes aim at image-sharing sites

Lawyers for the Bush administration want mandatory data retention to OMG STOP TEH EViL TERRAHISTS!!1! Fuck, is it 2008 yet?

internet photography law privacy surveillance dumb
march 2007 by jimray

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Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll

New York Mag piece on how kids these days are putting their entire lives online and how us old folks just don't get it (sorta)

privacy culture internet via:daringfireball
february 2007 by jimray

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Sealand is up for sale

Maybe Neal Stephenson will buy it and make Cryptonomicon a reality

privacy via:/.
january 2007 by jimray

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Craigsnumber

Phone number that forwards to your actual phone, expires after a set time, keeps you anonymous

craigslist mobile security phone privacy
december 2006 by jimray

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Wired News: MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill

"The MPAA has a tremendous amount of clout and they told legislators, 'We need to pose as someone other than who we are to stop illegal downloading,' Goldberg said."

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How to travel with expensive gear

Put a starter pistol in your lockbox, TSA will take extra special care of it. This is probably the one thing I have to thank the NRA for.

photography hardware privacy security travel
september 2006 by jimray

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Gonzales wants ISPs to save user data

You know, for the children

privacy government dumb security
september 2006 by jimray

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Stanford SafeCache

Protect against client side cache inspection. For the truly paranoid.

via:joshua firefox privacy extensions
september 2006 by jimray

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The Secret Life of Jason Fortuny

Well, not-so-secret really. Interesting profile of the guy behind the Craigslist sex post prank

via:waxy craigslist privacy
september 2006 by jimray

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Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds

Note to self: do not use work email address when responding to craigslist "casual encounters" posts. Another note to self: do not respond to craigslist "casual encouters" posts.

craigslist culture internet privacy sex
september 2006 by jimray

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The seven ways that people search the Web

Really fascinating, well written breakdown of the AOL leak

search aol privacy
august 2006 by jimray

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Bruce Schneier on last week's terrorism arrests

"None of the airplane security measures implemented because of 9/11 ... had anything to do with last week's arrests. Instead, the arrests are a victory for old-fashioned intelligence and investigation."

security politics privacy technology terrorism travel war
august 2006 by jimray

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A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 - New York Times

No. 4417749 conducted hundreds of searches over a three-month period on topics ranging from “numb fingers” to “60 single men” to “dog that urinates on everything.”

via:joeweiss aol search privacy
august 2006 by jimray

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Not so SWIFT - Why the Times shouldn't have published its story. By Jacob Weisberg

I still tend to disagree and think that the Times was justified, but this is one of the more cogent counter arguments I've seen.

media politics privacy finances
july 2006 by jimray

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New Scientist Technology - Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites

I suppose I'd be more surprised to learn that they weren't doing this.

nsa politics privacy
june 2006 by jimray

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NPR : Home for Seniors Trades Privacy for Security
health healthcare privacy security for_dad
june 2006 by jimray

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Submit a Privacy Act Request

How to (politely) ask the NSA to give you your phone records. Every j-school student in the country should be required to do this before graduating.

nsa government spying privacy security
may 2006 by jimray

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Bug 330884 - When different users on one system choose to save or not save passwords for sites, any other user can see sites they not only saved passwords for but can also see what other users have been saving/never saving passwords for.

This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years...when he went to log-in under his dating sites (jdate.com, swinglifestyle.com, adultfriendfinder.com, etc.), Mozilla promptly asks whether or not he'd like Firefox t

firefox funny browsers privacy dating
march 2006 by jimray

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claimID.com/jimray - Jim Ray

I've started claiming my id...

identity privacy
february 2006 by jimray

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TorPark

Tor on a USB keychain

supermodified portable security privacy
january 2006 by jimray

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Privacy and MSN Search

Wow, this is the most lawyerly worded weblog post I think I've ever read - no wonder people trust Google more, even if it is a bunch of hay

privacy government microsoft google
january 2006 by jimray

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Patriot Search - Our Search Syntax

"Please note that 'true' is the default value if you omit the "terrorist" operator – after all, everyone is a potential terrorist."

brilliant satire searchengines politics privacy government
january 2006 by jimray

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iTunes MiniStore Is Now Opt-In

"You can argue that this is how it should have shipped a week ago, and you’d be right. But I think the explanation is simply that the iTunes team didn’t anticipate that the MiniStore feature could be misconstrued — they knew it wasn’t the least bi

apple software privacy music
january 2006 by jimray

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Omniture Privacy: 2o7.net Explained

Ominture is the 500 pound gorilla of web tracking (MSNBC uses em...) - here's how to opt out of being tracked by them

tracking privacy stats via:merlinmann
january 2006 by jimray

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USATODAY.com - New digital camera? Know how, where you can use it

Good primer on photographers' rights and a handy reminder to re-read "The Photographer's Right"

photography privacy law
january 2006 by jimray

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Bush’s Snoopgate

"the president knew publication would cause him great embarrassment and trouble for the rest of his presidency. It was for that reason—and less out of genuine concern about national security—that George W. Bush tried so hard to kill the New York Times

politics privacy intelligence nytimes media
december 2005 by jimray

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Google Safe Browsing for Firefox

This is a great idea, I just can't help but think that your typical IE user would be better served by such a thing, though

firefox extensions google security privacy
december 2005 by jimray

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Microsoft to remove Sony malware from PCs

I'm still not buying an X-box, but good for Microsoft

microsoft sony drm dumb privacy security
november 2005 by jimray

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Sony DRM rootkit not just for Windows, Mac users get to share the love

At what point does Sony realize that becoming a media company was the biggest mistake they could have ever made?

dumb drm privacy security
november 2005 by jimray

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Secure iChat with .Mac

Finally, a reason to renew my subscription. I predict someone will come up with a way to replicate this without .Mac, though

mac encryption privacy security chat via:daringfireball
november 2005 by jimray

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Hide My Ass! Free Online Web Proxy.

Pretty sweet name

privacy proxy security funny
october 2005 by jimray

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FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations
fbi government privacy
october 2005 by jimray

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Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems

The government wants you to pay to make it easier for them to snoop on you

dumb surveillance privacy security
october 2005 by jimray

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Wikipedia bans Tor IP addresses

"I completely fail to comprehend why Tor server operators consistently refuse to take responsibility for their crazed users." Probably because Tor doesn't allow you to know what your "users" are doing. This seems like a weakness in both Tor and Wikipedia.

privacy security wikipedia
september 2005 by jimray

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Just1Key - Home

Store all your passwords in one place, encrypted with a 2,048 bit key

cryptography encryption privacy passwords security via:wired webdev
september 2005 by jimray

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How to become part of a secret service investigation

Photoshop, picture of Bush, picture of a gun, five minutes and Flickr should about do it. This is one of those monumental wastes of government time that Congresscritters should be fixing - does the Secret Service *really* need to investigate everything?

politics art chillingeffect government guns privacy dumb via:waxy law
june 2005 by jimray

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SwitchProxy for Firefox

With anonymizer features!

firefox privacy
april 2005 by jimray

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Crypto anywhere

Portable PGP app that runs from a USB drive

cryptography privacy brilliant software
march 2005 by jimray

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Does Gracenote know what you're listening to?

A great reason to switch to freedb.org

music privacy
march 2005 by jimray

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More Watchful, Probably Not Safer

Why we need smarter, not necessarily more, tech

technology privacy government
february 2005 by jimray

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National ID cards on the way?

Declan McCullagh dishes the dirt on National ID cards

privacy government
february 2005 by jimray

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freeipods.com doesn't respect user privacy

Shocker there - anyone who would sell out their privacy for $399 deserves the onslaught

privacy ipod
february 2005 by jimray

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Creating (and remembering) crazy hard passwords

"So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard! That's the kind of combination an idiot would put on his luggage!"

passwords security privacy
february 2005 by jimray

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Logfinder

The EFF helps you find logs you don't need before The Man does [via boingboing]

privacy tinfoilhat
february 2005 by jimray

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Corriente Elektron

RADIUS/802.1X authentication for you network

wifi encryption privacy security
january 2005 by jimray

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No Place to Hide

Multi-platform, multimedia documentary on privacy in a hyperconnected society

privacy government media
january 2005 by jimray

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FBI abandons Carnivore wiretap software

That's just what they WANT you to believe!

fbi spying privacy
january 2005 by jimray

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NY court rules that GPS snooping doesn't require a warrant

Says people should have no expectation of privacy in their cars on public roads. But why stop there - after all, my house is, technically, on public land! Forget warrants all together, forget judicial oversight! Motherfucking activist judges... [via /.]

privacy courts police crime dumb
january 2005 by jimray

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SwitchProxy Tool for Mozilla

Now with anonymizer!

firefox privacy
december 2004 by jimray

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Invasion of the PC snatchers - when adware attacks

Say it with me people - "Buy a Mac"

malware privacy
december 2004 by jimray

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Eavesdropping on your monitor via optical emission

As if you needed ANOTHER reason to build a Farady cage around your workstation