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This site has been archived and will not be updated further. Jonathan Zittrain’s new personal website is accessible at https://blogs.harvard.edu/jzwrites/

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The Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics publishes papers documenting "scientifically important and carefully-executed studies with statistically insignificant or otherwise unsurprising results." Helpful to know what didn't pan out. vox.com/future-perfect… h/t @KelseyTuoc

About 14 hours ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web Client

@metasj Yeah - suggests that any password for data at rest accessible to an adversary had best be much more than a "regular" password. ("I've secured your tax return PDF with the last four digits of your SSN ...")

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter Web Client

@jbenton @IAmSamFin I think it’s just really easy to get the wrong impression from the way the formula is pithily described. It seems clear from what you’ve shared that it does not use family-level data.

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@jbenton @IAmSamFin pic.twitter.com/OAayCHODSK

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

@jbenton @IAmSamFin So this NYT piece seems to assume that some of the factors are family- rather than neighborhood-specific? nytimes.com/2019/05/17/opi…

About 2 days ago from Jonathan Zittrain's Twitter via Twitter for iPhone

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