#privacy (53 links)
- Cloudflare on the Edge stratechery.com
It makes sense that Microsoft and Google (and presumably Amazon) would be very concerned about a world where individual countries make their own laws about what can be put on the Internet, or even seen. Theirs are services predicated on the superior economics that come from centralization; Cloudflare, on the other hand, is already doing all of its computing on the edge — data sovereignty rules are simply a variable. It’s “easy”.
How to opt-out of FLoC as a web user: Don’t use Google Chrome
- Where everybody knows your name - Messaging services are providing a more private internet | International | The Economist economist.com
Conversations which cause controversy in public can be carried out in private with more nuance and no trolling. A distinction can be made between performance and communication. In “The presentation of Self in Everyday Life” Erving Goffman, a 20th-century sociologist, distinguished between “front-stage” behaviour, which is observed by all and sundry, and the “back-stage” life of rehearsal and preparation in the company of others who are part of the same project. “For healthy psychology we need back and front stage,” says Carissa Véliz of Oxford University. “[Online] we have been pushing back stage more and more into oblivion. Having more private messaging brings the back stage back.”
I really like this analogy.
- Same-Site Cookies By Default | text/plain textslashplain.com
- Security Checklist securitycheckli.st
- How to Keep Messages Secure teenvogue.com
- DNS leak test dnsleaktest.com
- Sandstorm sandstorm.io
<blockquote>Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.</blockquote>
- Care.data is in chaos. It breaks my heart - Ben Goldacre theguardian.com
<blockquote>There are people in my profession who think they can ignore this problem. Some are murmuring that this mess is like MMR, a public misunderstanding to be corrected with better PR. They are wrong: it's like nuclear power. Medical data, rarefied and condensed, presents huge power to do good, but it also presents huge risks. When leaked, it cannot be unleaked; when lost, public trust will take decades to regain.</blockquote>
It gets worse.
- Is Gmail secure enough for my private emails? theguardian.com
<blockquote>At the moment, if you want an alternative to Gmail, your best bet is probably FastMail, which is owned by Opera Software (Opera is Norwegian), registered in Micronesia (.fm), and based in Australia. Unfortunately, according to Wikipedia: "Its servers are located in New York City with a backup in Norway."</blockquote>
- Thoreau 2.0 - XOXO Conference Talk static.pinboard.in
<blockquote>I've come to believe that it's time for us to take a stand, and refuse to cooperate with this apparatus of secrecy. We've already seen Lavabit, in an act of great moral courage, throw away ten years of hard work rather than acquiesce to blanket monitoring of its users. But the fact that Ladar Levinson wasn't even able to give the reasons for shutting his project down, that we had to infer them from his silence, demonstrates the problem.</blockquote>
- How to remain secure against NSA surveillance theguardian.com
<blockquote>The NSA has turned the fabric of the internet into a vast surveillance platform, but they are not magical. They're limited by the same economic realities as the rest of us, and our best defense is to make surveillance of us as expensive as possible. Trust the math. Encryption is your friend. Use it well, and do your best to ensure that nothing can compromise it.</blockquote>
- MyKolab.com mykolab.com
<blockquote>We offer secure email accounts including calenders and address books that synchronize to all your devices. </blockquote>
- al3x/sovereign · GitHub github.com
<blockquote>A set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain your own private cloud: email, calendar, contacts, file sync, IRC bouncer, VPN, and more.</blockquote>
- This Recycling Bin Is Stalking You - Siraj Datoo - The Atlantic Cities theatlanticcities.com
Nasty.
<blockquote>Disconnect, like similar software from Abine and Ghostery, aims to give consumers more control over the data they share. After the extension is installed, an icon in the browser lets users adjust which advertisers and tracking companies can access their data. Disconnect sorts the requests into categories like advertising, analytics, and social.</blockquote>
- Improving WordPress privacy | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Hadn't come across WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL before. Handy.
- The Real Life Social Network v2 slideshare.net
Massive, quite useful presentation from Paul Adams at Google
Here's how to make sure other people can't tag you on Places.
- Your PasswordCard passwordcard.org
Your PasswordCard has a unique grid of random letters and digits on it. The rows have different colors, and the columns different symbols. All you do is remember a combination of a symbol and a color, and then read the letters and digits from there.
- Facebook Allowed Automatic Data Sharing Last November | Social Hacking theharmonyguy.com
The current Facebook privacy policy already allows your “publicly available information,” which includes your name, gender, geographic region, friends list, fan pages, and your content marked “everyone,” to be automatically shared with external web sites when you visit them. The only thing apparently preventing this from happening right now is technology – Facebook has not yet rolled out an official means for Facebook Connect sites to automatically access such data. Apparently they soon plan on adding that technology for certain “pre-approved” sites, an update which the newer governing documents make more explicit.
- TOSBack | The Terms-Of-Service Tracker tosback.org
Keeps an eye on 44 website policies. Every time one of them changes, you'll see an update here.
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Web creator rejects net tracking news.bbc.co.uk
Sir Tim said his data and web history belonged to him. He said: "It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me."
- With friends like these ... guardian.co.uk
Facebook has 59 million users [but] you won't catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information - not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site
The big problem with Facebook is the plain fact that it’s an extremely annoying piece of software. I could go on for paragraphs and paragraphs about all the stupid, nasty, and sometimes scary things Facebook has done
- The Identity Corner » The problem(s) with OpenID idcorner.org
Comprehensive listing of problems with OpenID. FUD? Not FUD? Couldn't say myself but author competes in that space. OpenID + Passwordmaker.org is working well for me.
- Sam Ruby: OpenID for non-SuperUsers intertwingly.net
- O'Reilly Radar > Pros and Cons of OpenID radar.oreilly.com
What are the Pros and Cons of OpenID currently? Here's a crack at it (from the Radar Team)
- texturbation » Blog Archive » Privacy Policies Should Have RSS Feeds texturbation.com
"If there were RSS feeds, users could read a privacy policy when they first started using a service, then subscribe to the RSS feed using whatever feed service they use. They wouldn’t have to regularly check the web site for updates, and they wouldn’t
By encrypting messages before they leave your computer to the Internet, SimpLite-MSN prevents eavesdroppers from reading your MSN Messenger conversations.
- MPS online mpsonline.org.uk
Mailing Preference Service
- Wired News: The Eternal Value of Privacy wired.com
The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
- Bittorrent Masking: How to Avoid Getting Tracked as You Download. netforbeginners.about.com
- Secure File Storage and Sharing – Strongspace.com strongspace.com
A secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file with your co-workers, friends and family. You can upload, download and manage your files over SFTP (Secure FTP) or with any modern web browser.
- smo's Proxy BYPASSER thesmo.com