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Should the director of OPM be fired over its massive data breach?

June 29th, 2015  |  by zittrain  |  published in cybersecurity  |  Comments Off on Should the director of OPM be fired over its massive data breach?

I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics.  This week’s question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: As you can see, most people said yes.  I count myself among good company among the noes, including Dan Kaminsky and Dan Geer.  My answer: […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

June 6th, 2011  |  by jennifer  |  published in Android, censorship, cybersecurity, filtering, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, privacy  |  Comments Off on FOI Topics and Links of the Week

IR-transmitted metadata. Last week, Apple filed for a patent on an iOS camera that can detect infrared in addition to visible light. If a user aims the camera at an object that is sending out additional information about that object in the IR band, the camera transmits that information to the device, and potentially also […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

May 5th, 2011  |  by jennifer  |  published in Android, cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone, news, privacy  |  2 Comments

Smartphone tracking data. Two researchers reported last month that Apple has been storing time-stamped location information on users’ iOS devices since June. An unencrypted file with these data is saved onto a user’s computer each time she syncs her device with it, as well. Apple appears to have good reasons for collecting the location information, […]

Will the U.S. get an Internet “Kill Switch”?

March 4th, 2011  |  by mollysauter  |  published in cybersecurity, news  |  5 Comments

In the past month we’ve seen two countries try to “turn off” the Internet. On January 27, in Egypt, which had previously known few restrictions on Internet access (though, to be sure, intimidation of bloggers and activists was common), nearly all ISPs stopped delivering bits to their subscribers, even though data transiting Egypt from the […]

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

October 18th, 2010  |  by jennifer  |  published in Android, blackberry, censorship, cybersecurity, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone  |  1 Comment

T-Mobile gives its G2 Droid amnesia. The G2s appearing on T-Mobile shelves this week come with an extra piece of hardware, and it’s not a free car charger. If G2 owners teach their Droids (either by coding or downloading software) to do something that interferes with T-Mobile’s business model, the company-installed rootkit will induce short-term […]

Shouting fire in a crowded Twitter

September 22nd, 2010  |  by zittrain  |  published in cybersecurity, Future of the Internet  |  3 Comments

Tweeting has become a foundational Internet technology.  It’s not even dependent on the World Wide Web — people can send and receive tweets without having to visit twitter.com.  And the act of tweeting isn’t even unique to Twitter — many other Internet platforms are seeking to compete by allowing people to “emote” an update to […]

Has the Future of the Internet come about?

September 7th, 2010  |  by zittrain  |  published in cybersecurity, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Generativity, Web 2.0 platforms, wikipedia  |  2 Comments

This week there’s an online symposium at Concurring Opinions about the Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It. I’ll be blogging there; in the meantime here’s my opening entry.

FOI Topics and Links of the Week

August 10th, 2010  |  by jennifer  |  published in Android, cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, Generativity, privacy, wikipedia  |  2 Comments

Game on. A featureless update released recently by TI blocks a hack that allowed owners to write their own programs for the company’s Nspire calculator. It’s not immediately obvious what rationale TI used to justify the block. It isn’t under pressure to protect the commercial interests of a partner service provider. And worst case, a […]

Blackberry-22

August 3rd, 2010  |  by zittrain  |  published in blackberry, cloud, cybersecurity, filtering, Future of the Internet  |  8 Comments

“Why did you walk around all day with rubber balls in your hands?” Orr sniggered again. “I did it to protect my good reputation in case anyone ever caught me walking around with crab apples in my cheeks. With rubber balls in my hands I could deny there were crab apples in my cheeks. Every […]

Facebook’s ocean of names becomes a torrent

July 28th, 2010  |  by zittrain  |  published in cybersecurity, Future of the Internet, privacy  |  3 Comments

Nick Bilton over at the NYT Bits Blog has the story of Internet security consultant Ronald Bowes’s recent Facebook caper.  Ron noticed that Facebook has a directory of its users, just like the old Bell Telephone White Pages.  I agree with Ron’s assessment that this is a very little-noticed feature: normally one searches on Facebook […]

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