This week, it was revealed that two of the most powerful software companies transmit private data to their servers. In case of Apple i-Cloud, even the contents of unsaved documents are transmitted. Have you ever typed a letter, only to find it too harsh, and decided not to send it?…
Internet would have been East Germany secret police pipe dream: http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-stasi-spied-on-social-networks
I said on multiple occasions that I am not a proponent of a ‘revolution’ – history has too many examples of what’s wrong with that concept. This article may explain both what’s wrong with revolutions, and why some people think one might be inevitable.
Tomorrow is October 23rd. On that day 24 years ago, my family landed in Canada, after an epic escape from Communist Czechoslovakia 15 months earlier. Earlier this summer, I started a web site that chronicles that journey. You can read it at http://freedom-25.ca/. I had to take a break because…
A fascinating account on how easy it is to ‘de-anonymize’ publicly available data: http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars-passenger-privacy-in-the-nyc-taxicab-dataset/
Electronic Frontier Foundation has an interesting article about the strength of the freedom of speech: https://www.eff.org/free-speech-weak-link