encryption is (mostly) not magic | Benlog
4 weeks ago by sunpig
For the most part, encryption isn’t magic. Encryption lets you manage secrets more securely, but if users are involved in the key management, that almost certainly comes at the expense of usability and features. Web services should strongly consider encryption where possible to more strictly manage their internal access controls. But think carefully before embarking on a design that forces users to manage their keys. In many cases, users simply don’t understand that losing the key means losing the data. As my colleague Umesh Shankar says, if you design a car lock so secure that locking yourself out means crushing the car and buying a new one, you’re probably doing it wrong.
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4 weeks ago by sunpig
Not an April Fool - Charlie's Diary
8 weeks ago by sunpig
It's easy to imagine how we could make something worse than "Girls Around Me"—something much worse. Facebook encourages us to disclose a wide range of information about ourselves, including our religion and a photograph. Religion is obvious: "Yids Among Us" would obviously be one of the go-to tools of choice for Neo-Nazis. As for skin colour, ethnicity identification from face images is out there already. Want to go queer bashing? There's an algorithm out there for guessing sexual orientation based on the network graph of the target's facebook friends. It's probably possible to apply this sort of data mining exercise to determine whether a woman has had an abortion or is pro-choice.
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8 weeks ago by sunpig
The Accidental Data Controller - honestlyreal
november 2011 by sunpig
"how big does your address book have to be before you need to register it under the Data Protection Act?" @paul_clarke
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november 2011 by sunpig
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » In the privacy of our homes
august 2011 by sunpig
Nifty privacy addition to Flickr: Geofences ()
development
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geo
privacy
geofence
data
metadata
august 2011 by sunpig
evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies
september 2010 by sunpig
RT @jeremiahg: RT @samykamkar: evercookie - JS API for extremely persistent browser cookies < uh oh, someone is ma ...
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september 2010 by sunpig
The Facebook Reckoning - Anil Dash
september 2010 by sunpig
RT @anildash: In response to the NYer profile of Zuck, i took a look at the larger reckoning Facebook faces:
anildash
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september 2010 by sunpig
apophenia » Blog Archive » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
may 2010 by sunpig
The Facebook backlash is well underway. Yay backlash.
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may 2010 by sunpig
Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation
april 2010 by sunpig
RT @dalmaer: The EFF are awesome. They can tell a story. They use facts.
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april 2010 by sunpig
Doth I protest too much? | Mark Thomas | Comment is free | The Guardian
october 2009 by sunpig
"Protest is part of the democratic process. It wasn't the goodwill of politicians that led them to cancel developing countries' debt, but the protests and campaigning of millions of ordinary people around the world. The political leaders were merely the rubber stamp in the democratic process. Thus any targeting and treatment of demonstrators (at the G20 for example) that creates a "chilling effect" – deterring those who may wish to exercise their right to protest – is profoundly undemocratic."
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lh
october 2009 by sunpig
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