Negative Space: privacy
- Apple’s spinning mirror: exploiting children for dictatorships
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Apple has decided on “child porn” as the root password to disable privacy on their phones. But the system they’re using appears to be mostly worthless at detecting the exploitation of children, and very useful for detecting dissent from authoritarian governments.
- Cooky Controversy
- You may have heard about the controversy over letting web sites store “cookies” in your web browser. There are privacy and security concerns over these cookies. These concerns are not as major as the detractors claim, but neither are they as minor as the boosters claim.
- How does Apple’s supposed anti-conservative bias matter?
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If you think Apple has a bias against conservatives or Christians, you definitely don’t want Apple to build a tool its employees can use to help guess an iPhone’s password.
- The last four digits of your social security number
- The last four digits of your social security number are the least guessable part of your SSN.
- Netscape is On Your Trail
- Some new browsers have an ESP feature turned on by default: they send the page you’re currently visiting off to a central database to find “related” pages similar to this one.
- Taking control of the vertical
- Take control of your browser windows, colors, and cache. Privacy and security are important on the web, and so is avoiding annoying and stressful pages.
- Tumbling to SSN privacy
- Guessing social security numbers based on the statistical analysis I talked about in “The last four digits of your social security number” now has a name: “tumbling”.
More Information
- Privacy on iPhone—Private Side
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This is the best Apple ad I’ve seen in a long time. It rivals their rip-mix-burn ad from the music encryption wars. (For extra credit, count the number of walls in this video.)
