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досмотр и контроль
4 May 2014 | Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
о ценах на головы:
General information about a person, such as their age, gender and location is worth a mere $0.0005 per person, or $0.50 per 1,000 people. A person who is shopping for a car, a financial product or a vacation is more valuable to companies eager to pitch those goods. Auto buyers, for instance, are worth about $0.0021 a pop, or $2.11 per 1,000 people.
Certain milestones in a person’s life prompt major changes in buying patterns, whether that’s becoming a new parent, moving homes, getting engaged, buying a car, or going through a divorce. Marketers are willing to pay more to reach consumers at those major life events. Knowing that a woman is expecting a baby and is in her second trimester of pregnancy, for instance, sends the price to tag for that information about her to $0.11.
и еще одна чудесная статья:
It all started with a personal experiment to see if I could keep a secret from the bots, trackers, cookies and other data sniffers online that feed the databases that companies use for targeted advertising. As a sociologist of technology I was launching a study of how people keep their personal information on the Internet, which led me to wonder: could I go the entire nine months of my pregnancy without letting these companies know that I was expecting?
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But, as I discovered when I tried to buy a stroller, opting out is not only antisocial, it can appear criminal.
you got the point:
Internet companies hope that users will not only accept the trade-off between “free” services and private information, but will forget that there is a trade-off in the first place.
игра на понижение
15 April 2014 | Economics, Google, Hardware, Privacy | No Comments
распродажа, натурально:
Tomorrow, April 15, Google Glass will finally go on sale to the public.
Granted, you’ll have just one day to buy it, and supplies will be limited. That’s the kind of sales tactic any company would use to pressure you into buying a shiny, new toy you don’t really need.
как говорится, если за вашими продуктами не выстраиваются очереди, остается только создавать их искусственно.
и дальше[1] еще точнее:
If you think this is a device that will make you look cool and forward-thinking, you’ve been misled by Sergey Brin. It will make you look like a robot, a dork, and, well, a Glasshole. Instead of looking at you with envy and awe, your peers will regard you with suspicion (is she taking a video of me?) and annoyance (running the gamut from “watch where you’re going!” to “you people are what’s wrong with this town!”).
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дальше, впрочем, будет так:
Google has a new patent application with the USPTO, which takes one of the basic concepts of Glass and extends it even further, embedding tiny cameras that could be embedded in contact lenses for various uses, including photographing what a wearer sees, or providing the basic input for a contact-based assistive device for the visually impaired.
scary enough? ↩
eyes wide shut
7 April 2014 | Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Unless we start building personal trust networks (exchanging and verifying public/private keys) and encrypting our email, then we should probably give up on email privacy. When communicating in plain text over the public Internet we should assume that our messages are being read by third parties.
It doesn’t matter if we self host, pay a dedicated Email host with a simple privacy policy or use a giant advertising-supported technology company’s Email service for free. Email privacy without encryption and trusted, verified identity is an illusion.
коммуникации в сети — это то, что не дает мне покоя практически беспрерывно. и действенный компромисс между удобством и надежностью пока так и не обнаружен.
лучше иного детектива
28 March 2014 | Privacy, Security | 1 Comment
кстати, история (1, 2), что стоит обязательно прочитать всем, кто хоть сколько-то интересуется безопастностью коммуникаций.
hyperlocal
25 March 2014 | Internet, Lifeform, Privacy, Software | 1 Comment
[FireChat] makes use of the Multipeer Connectivity Framework in iOS 7, which allows developers to discover Multipeer-enabled services on nearby iOS devices using Wi-Fi, peer-to-peer connections and Bluetooth.
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In case nobody is around, the app also has a global chat mode that includes everybody on the network (with an Internet connection). So far, the team hasn’t segmented this global mode into different rooms, so things may get a bit noisy in there if the app gets traction. If that happens, I’m sure the team will rethink this setup.
There are no user accounts, so there is no need to sign in and you can remain as anonymous as you would like to be (which is probably a good idea if you are trash-talking the opposing team in a stadium, for example).
коллективные сновидения, не иначе. хотя, конечно, в жизни все с точностью до наоборот:
Two new apps, Secret and Whisper, are capitalising on a trend to connect people anonymously to express opinions or ideas they might not share if their identities were revealed. Nowhere has the opportunity to dish the dirt anonymously been taken up with greater enthusiasm than in the heart of the tech industry, Silicon Valley, where the apps’ online gossiping offers rare insight into a society shaped by opportunity – at one extreme, for talented entrepreneurs to make vast fortunes and, at the other, years of failure and frustration for tens of thousands of others. Postings that show up simply as “friend” or “friend of friend” reveal Silicon Valley not as a place of hard-working, peaceable tech engineers, but a hothouse of ambition, rivalry, jealousy and obsession.
а потом — вдруг — анонимный занавес упадет.
clear and present danger
20 March 2014 | Google, Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
“If you look at the logs of people’s search sessions, they’re the most personal thing on the Internet,” [Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo] says. “Unlike Facebook, where you choose what to post, with search you’re typing in medical and financial problems and all sorts of other things. You’re not thinking about the privacy implications of your search history.”
a megaphone
12 March 2014 | Internet, Lifeform, Privacy, Software | 1 Comment
welcome the new way of communicating:
The new app, Secret, which was released on Thursday on the iTunes store, is meant to help one share what one is thinking and feeling with friends anonymously. One can write anything that is on one’s mind, free of judgement.
being free of any constraints, wouldn’t that talk become the stream of unconsciousness of your social circle? I thinnk, it should:
For a number of reasons, Secret is a fascinating app. <...> It transforms the passive-aggressiveness of a subtweet into a product, creating a space for people to speak their minds with less of the filter required by traditional social networks. It created a new type of newsfeed — the SecretFeed — which is not bound by being presented the traditional, reverse-chronological manner, which allows secrets to resurface over time.
me, I’d prefer to absolve from that usual socialness, and put the whole Internet under the hood, no matter if the users are your contacts or not (even though some may be worried by the funders or possible usage).
remember Molly, aye? now, replace her usual ‘I’ — with ‘us’. with secrets, dreams and moves of a community.
isn’t that liberty… inspiring?
watching you
11 March 2014 | Economics, Politics, Privacy | No Comments
oh, watch these Bitcoin ATMs in action:
To use it, you must submit your phone number, a PIN, a government ID, a palm vein scan, and let it take your photo [emphasis mine]. This is to comply with anti-money laundering laws that require money services businesses to keep certain records on their customers.
somehow I’m not surprised.
the revelations
7 February 2014 | Politics, Privacy, Security | No Comments
свод открытий Эдварда Сноудена.
learn their powers. study our knowledge.
there’s an app for that
30 January 2014 | Privacy, Security, Software | No Comments
ну, все уже видели, конечно (по ссылке так же есть и солайды внутренних презентаций):
The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of “leaky” smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users’ private information across the internet, according to top secret documents.
The data pouring onto communication networks from the new generation of iPhone and Android apps ranges from phone model and screen size to personal details such as age, gender and location. Some apps, the documents state, can share users’ most sensitive information such as sexual orientation – and one app recorded in the material even sends specific sexual preferences such as whether or not the user may be a swinger.
натурально, больше игр, хороших и разных.