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One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen
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Lauren Weinstein
In 1951 the great science-fiction author Ray Bradbury published a short story called “The Pedestrian”. It told of a robotic police car roaming a future city looking for so-called “unusual” behaviors — in this case walking alone at night. And a pedestrian in the story was arrested by the car and driven off to be…
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As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
With further confirmation of the longstanding rumor that the U.S. government (and, we can safely assume, other governments around the world) have been pressuring major Internet firms to provide their "master" SSL keys for government surveillance purposes, we are rapidly approaching a critical technological crossroad.
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The death of Google
Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com/the-death-of-google PDF: https://lauren.vortex.com/google-death.pdf Google Docs: https://lauren.vortex.com/google-death.gdoc
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An Example of a Sad Google Account Recovery Failure and Its Effects
UPDATE: 24 May 2023: A Proposal for “Enhanced Recovery Services” for Locked Out Google Accounts
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New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous "Comment Nazis"
"You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly � Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity."
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Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
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