Colin J. Bennett, writing in Policy Options, explains how Canadian political parties collect and use voters’ personal information. It’s a quick, and valuable, read; highly recommended.
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F-Secure has a good, quick, overview of the recent attacks against Facebook, Twitter, and (presumably) other mobile developers. Significantly, we’re seeing an uptick in attacks against developers rather than just against platform manufacturers. The significance? Even though the phone OS may be ‘secure’, the applications you’re loading onto those devices may have been compromised at inception.
Smartphones: the source of anxiety and worry for IT managers that keeps on going.
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Judge, Jury, Executioner
As long as you’ve got executive privilege and secret interpretations of law, it’s legal, right?
by UOIT
Now picture what happens when your firewall fails to stop the ‘friendly’ lioness
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StopSpying.ca Timeline
StopSpying.ca Timeline
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Slashdotted!
It’s always nice to see my writing highlighted amongst my peers 🙂
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Marketing: Confusion
Now the Microsoft Surfaces make sense. One’s for play and work, while the other… wait.
photo via Jonathan Hoover
Marketing: Confusion.
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Dial-up handshaking illustrated
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Quote of the month
From Warren McCulloch, one of the founding fathers of cybernetics:
“I don’t particularly like people, never have. Man to my mind is about the nastiest, most destructive of all animals. I don’t see any reason, if he can evolve machines that can have more fun than he himself can, why they shouldn’t take over, enslave us, quite happily. They might have a lot more fun, invent better games than we ever did.”
quoted in Mary Catherine Bateson, Our Own Metaphor (New York: Knopf, 1972)
Techno-utopianism (dystopianism?) for the win.
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3D Print of Winterfell
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It only took an hour to print our own model of Winterfell. (Accidentally in Lannister red)
If you have access to a 3D printer, here’s the file.
Finally, a good use for 3D printers.
Hmm…this might be the thing that pushes me to actually look at/use the local makerbot
Excited Pixels 