Privacy, Security, & Encryption
Something just occurred to me. Given the massive cost efficiencies of Amazon’s cloud computing service, doesn’t that mean that the cost of brute-force decryption has also just fallen to 1 penny on the dollar compared to a year ago. Has anybody else been talking about this?
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This posting has links to all of the Web 2.0 Summit 2006 blog posts that I wrote:
Day 1
Enterprise 2.0
SMB Session
Launch Pad
Keynote with Eric Schmidt
Joi Ito on Worlds of Warcraft
Ben Trott of Six Apart, talking about Vox
Discussion with Arthur [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco:
[My notes are in this square brackets.]
Harnessing Collective Intelligence with Jim Buckmaster (Craigslist), Owen Van Natta (Facebook), Toni Schneider (Automattic), and Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media)
On the panel:
Jim Buckmaster / CEO, Craigslist
Owen Van Natta, COO of Facebook
Toni Schneider, CEO of Automatic
Richard Rosenblatt, cofounder, [...]
THIS is the reason you don’t allow overly broad stupid legislation like the Patriot Acts I and II and the most recent Military Commission Act to pass. They are always unintended uses that far exceed the original intent of the law. In this case, a couple in their mid-forties were being overtly sexual on a [...]
Day 1 Notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA
Session 1: Enterprise 2.0
Mayfield had talked about SLATES - (search, linking, authoring, tagging, extensions, and signals) finally being possible on Socialtext’s new platform that they have formed [...]
Ben Franklin said it best: “Those who would trade liberty for a bit of safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
This is appalling.
I urge everybody to watch this:
A Cornell university study has found that 44% of Amerikans favoured “some restrictions on the civil liberties of Muslim Americans.” But remember George Bush, “this is not a war of Christian against Muslim or Westerners against Easterners, it is a war on terror.” Umm, yeah, right. Shockingly, those who were most inclined to vote [...]
Read it and weep, my Amerikan friends. And support the EFF.
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December 10, 2004
A Taste of the System
02:07 AM | Current Affairs/ Drugs/ Politics
Since the election, as you’ve doubtless noticed, I haven’t had much to say here.
Having lost that crusade - and I do think [...]
The author of this article in The Register says it better than I could:
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The plan underlying Fallujah’s ID scheme and phased return may be an effort to stop it reverting to a hostile no-go area for security forces, but it’s doubtful that this could entirely work. It won’t be possible [...]
Once this system is in place that requires foreigners entering the U.S. from Canada to have their fingerprints scanned, it will only be a matter of a year or two or another trade dispute and suddenly the system will be extended to Canadian citizens. I would be quite happy to not visit the USA [...]
