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VRM as root of sovereignty
A VRM-y system would presumably alert you if you didn’t meet the age requirements for some web site you wished to join or subscribe to. Considering that under the CFAA doing so would be a felony in...
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What I learned at Internet Identity Workshop XVI (So Far)
This week is Internet Identity Workshop XVI in Mountain View, California, and just in time! It is my first time but it definitely will not be my last. The amount of raw talent in the room is amazing...
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Latest revelations concerning the NSA
BREAKING NEWS! It was revealed today in secret documents leaked to this reporter that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is actually a division of Claus Industries, LLC, a company synonymous with...
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The best book deal you’ve never heard of
The folks over at Silence in the Library Publishing and a bunch of authors, including Gail Z. Martin who featured prominently in The Kindle Confiscation, have a little Kickstarter project going....
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Facebook explores emergent behavior, invents bully-bot
Has anyone actually been successful getting Facebook to enforce its own Terms of Service? Because I’m striking out left and right. Oddly, the people having success seem to be the ones abusing the...
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Net neutrality for the rest of us
Net Neutrality has been framed as a debate between corporate giants who can well-afford to pay to publish their content, and rightly should. But that’s a straight-up lie. Let’s try a thought...
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Net Neutrality – Part 2
In my yesterday’s Net Neutrality post I wrote “For your ISP, a packet is a packet is a packet.” In another forum, Howard responds: Speaking as an ISP engineer, no, it isn’t that simple. Set aside...
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No ads!
Over at my IoPT blog I’ve written occasionally about how online ad networks are co-opted by cyber criminals and used to deliver malware. It is one reason why I’ve never carried ads on T-Rob.net,...
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Facebook to boost engagement with new recursive Like feature
24 October 2015 – San Jose, CA Mark Zuckerburg announced today that Facebook will soon allow its users to “Like” another user’s “Like” on their own or another timeline. “We have been battling a...
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Google Male
Tried Google Voice yet? I use it as my primary business phone number and it’s an amazing service. When a call comes in it simultaneously rings my cell phone, my desk phone, and any other phone I...
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