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The Network Is The Computer. Again.
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Ever since John Gage of Sun first offered the phrase “The Network Is The Computer” to the world, people have been using it as inspiration. Sun use it to explain that they mean Social Networking without actually using the phrase (they prefer the old fashioned “community”).
I think web 2.0 developers are offering a new [...]
If VoIP kills phreaking, who are tomorrow’s engineers?
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“Ma Bell is a system I want to explore. It’s a beautiful system, you know, but Ma Bell screwed up. It’s terrible because Ma Bell is such a beautiful system, but she screwed up. I learned how she screwed up from a couple of blind kids who wanted me to build a device. A certain [...]
Why Municipally Provided Wifi Must Never Be Allowed
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I have twice now had to defend an unpopular premise – that local governments should not provide free wifi to residents and visitors. A recent thread on the Open Rights Group discussion list almost got pretty out of hand between a few people who thought it was dangerous for the government to be providing [...]
Mastercard Securecode Rant.
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I ranted on the Ecommerce Experts mailing list earlier in the week after canceling an order on a cabling website, after it prompted me to enroll in Mastercard Securecode, with no way out.
My gripes are that
The general public should NOT be encouraged to enter their secret personal data at a checkout, in random popups. The [...]
Was PGP Signing the first social network?
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I spent some time last night making some cards for the LugRadio Key Signing event. I’ve used pgp for a while (since 2001 – I am now on my second key) and have not worked on building up the number of signatures I had on my first key.
I understand that PGP works best with [...]
