People aren’t security conscious enough.
I could say people aren’t “privacy” conscious enough, but I really do mean something more thorough than that.
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Some random thoughts originally given privately but which I’ll put up here for posterity.
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This was a piece I had rattling around in my head for some time. It gets weak at the end, and has no real flow to it, but it’s interesting enough in places that I thought I’d clean it up and publish it. Enjoy my dark sarcasm!
In a mass-market scenario, the larger the population the higher the chance for one or more free software projects to appear.
Since software can, in theory, be inherited by additional programmers and indefinitely updated, even the smallest chance for a free software project to be created becomes an inevitability over time. This means that even a niche market scenario can have competition from free software.
A crowd of hobbyists will have more time and expertise for a general-purpose piece of software than a development house can bring to bear. Simply put, they can do it better.
It goes without saying that cheaper, better and more supported free software will eventually out-compete proprietary equivalents, displacing established businesses and markets.
How can this problem be addressed?
Google’s informal motto is/was don’t be evil. They claimed to be pretty good guys.
However, Google has (as I figured) very obviously become Evil. Tracking.. hell, building activity webs. Why do you think they have all kinds of web developer services like captcha. They get to see who uses them.
So since they’re evil, I’ll stop using Google Search.
Instead, I’ll use DuckDuckGo. They claim to be pretty good guys.
Hey wait.
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I have an uncanny knack. It’s partly my nature, but heavily augmented by practice and a kind of effort for education.
It’s one of those qualities which has been recognized to some small degree in past cultures and is largely overlooked or misunderstood in ours.
TODO – I have this email archived as subject: “PSN-SOE-Canada Settlement” and I should post it up here for completeness.
I lot of people have been getting a “PSN-SOE-Canada Settlement” letter.
People are saying it’s legit.
They’re full of shit.
[edit: Yep, it was a hoax]
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An interesting problem: How do you discuss certain hot topics while avoiding a list of words?
It’s pretty easy for me, actually.
My comment never actually appeared there, but I like what I wrote so I’ll keep it here.
I bumped into an interesting old article. Since it’s nowhere else on the web I thought I’d share it.
This was written in 1997. Linking and images added by me, because I think its original author would find it funny.
THE PLACE TO BE
Product placement is big business, benefiting both movie studios (who get their props for free) and corporate marketers (who gain valuable exposure for their products). Done right, it can be amazingly cost-effective. Leveraged properly, it can drive sales. But the entertainment business can also be unpredictable and occasionally unkind.
Simply put, people talk to themselves to feed data back into themselves for additional storage and processing.
(This is another mostly-unfinished idea)
Hackers >
This is a rather interesting concept, first brought to my attention by:
Hackers As A High-Risk Population [29c3]
CCCen – Chaos Computer Conference, 2012
https://youtu.be/zq-bloM4Cmo
