Tag Archives: UI

Google: ‘Privacy? Depends–where are you?’

08-07-10 – 11:00:pm

A gaggle of campaigners (NAI, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Michael Zimmer, etc) push Google to add a link to its privacy policy on its home page, and Google’s refusal sparks snark: for example, “Larry Page, the company’s co-founder, didn’t want a privacy link ‘on that beautiful clean home page,’ said one executive at a Google competitor” [...]

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“The fossil record doesn’t tell us much about social life.”

08-05-20 – 09:47:am

So says Paul Ekman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at UCSF and an expert on facial expressions, according to Errol Morris in “The Most Curious Thing” in the NYT. As prosecutors become more media-savvy with all their perp-walks, PR campaigning leaks, and the like, it follows to reason that filmmakers would become the new prosecutors: forensics [...]

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Private-public key history

08-05-12 – 09:56:pm

Steve Bellovin’s “Prehistory of Public Key Cryptography” (08-01-16) says the technique was developed several years earlier than thought—and, according to former NSA Director Bobby (Ray) Inman, “a decade earlier than Diffie and Hellman,” possibly inspired by “a World War II–era paper by an unknown person at Bell Labs.”

In a talk “The Early Days in Nuclear [...]

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Gatewayism

08-05-10 – 06:38:pm

RMS reads web by email.

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One botnet per child

08-05-10 – 05:51:pm

OLPC mesh networking + Windows XP? Oh dear.
Groklaw asks: “What are you doing to those children?” C|net’s Matt Asay expands:

OLPC is rather about liberating developing nations from their vassal status that continually keeps them at the mercy of the pricing and licensing of Microsoft and other proprietary vendors. By building on Windows, Negroponte cuts his [...]

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