There has been a lot of talk about cryptoanarchy, but zero talk about the other side of the equation, anonymity in government. I dub this Anonarchy, and have made a logo accordingly (actually, I made the logo first and the system of government to fit it.)
If you’re not a computer-science person, this wikipedia article might […]
You’ve probably seen a kiosk at some point in your life. They’re the standalone computers you see in malls and lobbies all over the place. They’re typically just a browser and some software to stop you from doing anything else on the computer. This makes me sad. All that computing power just being used for […]
Aug 31st is move-out day in Boston, and that means dumpster diving! This years haul: 3 computers (2 P4 Dells and an HP Laptop!), a 20″ monitor, 2 power conditioners, a lot of furniture and the Cryptonomicon!
So, after booting up the computers and a bit of poking around, we found this in Mr. Kyle M’s […]
This is the first of three posts wrapping up my experiences with Google Summer of Code 2008 and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Although it had nothing to do with my main project proposal, Linkovbot does use the same NLP software and I did write it to give myself a break from reading too much […]
I’m sort of embarrassed that I’ve been using GMail for a while now. I rally for data privacy and yet I let a large company house all of my personal communications? That’s a bit hypocritical.
My solution, at least until I can find something more suitable, is to use the FireGPG extension for Firefox. Now, you […]
Some MIT students have been banned from giving a talk at this years’ DEFCON about their hack on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s CharlieCard system.
I’ve got a copy of their forbidden slides, which I’m mirroring here. It’s a really good presentation, but unfortunately the links to their code in it aren’t working right now.
Anyway, the […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a top digital rights organization out of San Francisco and DC, has just released a new tool which lets users automatically detect network neutrality violations and ensure that their internet experience is left untampered with.
Switzerland, as it is called, is an open source software tool for testing the integrity of data […]
I’m going to the HOPE conference in NYC tomorrow through Sunday. If anybody is going and wants to meet up, drop me a comment or an email and we’ll sort something out!
I’m tentatively scheduled to give a demo of the Anomos protocol in the General Demo Area on the mezzanine at 1300 on Sunday, you […]
As Google is handing over your sensitive personal information to Viacom, I was reminded by some strange behavior I noticed in Google’s caching system a while back, that I have decided to investigate further.
This code doesn’t do anything exciting, but give it some time to let Google cache it and let another monitoring program I’ve […]
I’ve been listening to NPR and Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics, came on and talked about “Government 2.0.” They were taking calls and I called in and mumbled something about financial and legal transparency. I meant to namedrop Free Culture and Change-Congress but I didn’t. He did mention Sunlight Foundation, though, which is just […]
