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Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com
These days, it seems that most Americans carry three things in their pockets or purses at all times: keys, a wallet and a phone.
OneSwarm: Privacy preserving P2P
OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer tool that provides users with explicit control over their privacy by letting them determine how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing.
Malevolent voices that despise our freedoms | Philip Pullman - Times Online
We do not know what is happening to us. In the world outside, great events take place, great figures move and act, great matters unfold, and this nation of Albion murmurs and stirs while malevolent voices whisper in the darkness - the voices of the new laws that are silently strangling the old freedoms the nation still dreams it enjoys.
How to Friend Mom, Dad, and the Boss on Facebook...Safely - ReadWriteWeb
A little over a year ago, Facebook launched a new feature called "Friend Lists." With lists, you can create groups of friends on Facebook, separating work from family and close friends. It's simple to use, but it's definitely an underutilized feature. In fact, most of the people who spend their days "Facebooking," never seem to take the time to worry about who's seeing what...until it's too late.
How to set up an intruder alarm on your email account : Gina Hughes : Yahoo! Tech
I've gotten several emails from readers asking me how they can find out if someone has accessed their personal email account, so I thought I'd point you to an excellent post written by PCWorld's Erik Larkin on how to set a hacker alarm on your web mail bo
Your right to take photographs - OCAU Wiki
The following article by Andrew Nemeth BSc (Hons) LLB, is a detailed analysis of the legal issues surrounding street photography in NSW Australia. It addresses matters like "privacy", "rights", "consent", "offensive behaviour", and even the attempt by som
Explore Your Interactions with Google Reader
Here are some addresses where you can find historical data about the items you've subscribed to (click on "View all items" to see all the posts).
Computer Unblock | Your computer just got 10 times cooler...
Computer Unblock is... a special kind of website that unblocks websites. You can use it to unblock any website... To unblock a site, all you have to do is visit this website while you're at school or work, type in its address, and press "Go!"
p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site
"I recently came across this letter in my mailbox," posts Ray Beckerman on Recording Industry vs The People. "It was written by California attorney Merl Ledford III, of Visalia, California, to the RIAA's lawyer. Thought my readers might enjoy it."
The Straight Dope Mailbag: Should you sign the back of your credit cards?<BR>
Here's our official advice on signing the strip on the back: Don't sign it... However, do not leave the white strip blank. In that space, write: "Ask For Picture ID,"...
hymn -- decrypt iTunes and iPod music / unprotect AAC files (m4p --> m4a)
The purpose of the Hymn Project is to allow you to exercise your fair-use rights under copyright law. The various software provided on this web site allows you to free your iTunes Music Store purchases (protected AAC / .m4p) from their DRM restrictions wi
EFF: Frequently Awkward Questions for the Entertainment Industry
EFF has prepared a sample list of tough questions for times when you hear entertainment industry representatives speaking and want to challenge their positions. Asking hard questions is a way of "keeping honest people honest" and revealing when they're ac
Wired News: What If They Gave a War...?
The real voices of dissent and engagement are found on the internet these days, but the internet is simply too diffuse to effectively galvanize a revolution.
Traveling Forever - How to Protect Yourself From Big Brother
However, when we have millions of people encrypting their every transmission, our chances for privacy go up exponentially, and we have one up on the people who abuse their power. So enough of the chit-chat, let's go about encrypting our every move, and en
jesus is a pervert: Protecting yourself against the BitTorrent bandits!
But there is a way to fight back! If you are using the latest µTorrent (1.5), you can employ a little known feature called IP filtering. The author of µTorrent has gone out of his way to hide it, but it's there nonetheless. But before we can activate th
Wired 14.04: Global Gaming Crackdown
Last fall, a group of World of Warcraft players in China committed mass suicide. They wanted to draw attention to the latest restriction on their liberty: The same government agency that censors newspapers and bans books had just mandated a system of disi
TechCrunch » AllPeers Is The FireFox “Killer App”
AllPeers is a simple, persistent buddy list in the browser... They will be able to see what files you choose to share (even getting an RSS feed of new files you include), and with a single click download it to their own hard drive.
Geek to Live: Firewall your attention at the office - Lifehacker
Many modern office spaces today are “open” and “promote interaction between departments” - which means they’re set up to interrupt and distract you, all day long.
Let’s see some ID, please - The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com
The chip permanently assigns a unique and permanent identifier to every computer before it leaves the factory and that identifier can’t subsequently be changed. It also checks the software running on the computer to make sure it hasn’t been altered to
The Freenet Project - index - beginner
Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous. Without anonymity
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