Category Archives: Thoughts
Three Strikes and Goodbye World
In this post I’m going to briefly note just how bad an idea it is, for citizens, that ISPs and content providers are working together to resolve ‘copyright infringement’ without having a substantial degree of government involvement. Rules of the … Continue reading
Do RFID security worries still need a reality check?
A few years ago Computer World ran a particularly good piece on Radio-frequency identification )RFID entitled ‘Opinion: RFID security worries need a reality check‘. I’d highly recommend taking a look at it, for a pair of reasons: It identifies that … Continue reading
Public Databases and Massive Aggregation of Data
This is just a really quick thought that I wanted to toss out. I perceive a problem associated with the digitization of public records: such digitization allows business interests to gather aggregate data on large collections of people while retaining … Continue reading
Social Networking: The Consumption?
A little while ago, the New York Times ran a piece where they discussed the ‘Sticky-factor’ of Facebook. Effectively the article boiled down to the fact that it’s a nightmare to exit the Facebook ecosystem – actually removing your data … Continue reading
