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June 12, 2013
June 9, 2013
Why Metadata Matters
In response to the recent news reports about the National Security Agency’s surveillance program, President Barack Obama said today, “When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls.” Instead, the government was just “sifting through this so-called metadata.” The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made a similar
June 7, 2013
npr:
Isn’t being stuck on the tarmac a drag? Not when you have the Philadelphia Orchestra on board with you. Read more at NPR’s The Two-Way.
June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013
The government has all your info
Just in case you weren’t clear on this. Here’s why nothing will be done about it
The CIA does the sexy evil stuff — assassination attempts, regime change, torture, air strikes against crowds of people totally unknown to us — but the scariest domestic intelligence agency for your average American, at little risk of dying in a drone strike or being deposed in by a military junta, has always been the National Security Agency. Last night, The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Spencer Ackerman reported that the NSA ordered Verizon to provide them with information on every call made in the United States for a three-month period ending in July. Yes, every call.
The NSA got a FISA judge to order Verizon to turn over “all call detail records or ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications between the United States and abroad” or “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls.” The records include “metadata,” meaning the records show the phone numbers, call length and possibly location the calls were made, among lots of other helpful identifying information…”
June 3, 2013
June 3, 2013
The Scale of the Universe 2
Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn about everything in between.
June 2, 2013
Protestors offer börek to police, they return the favor by offering water - lots of it.
(via jitterbug-nocturne)
June 1, 2013
June 1, 2013
What Pangea would look like mapped with modern political borders – a modern mashup reflecting cartography’s long history as power, propaganda, and art.
(Source: , via bury-yourhead)
May 31, 2013
Disruptions: At Odds Over Privacy Challenges of Wearable Computing
By NICK BILTON
“Perhaps the best way to predict how society will react to so-called wearable computing devices is to read the Dr. Seuss children’s story “The Butter Battle Book.”
The book, which was published in 1984, is about two cultures at odds. On one side are the Zooks, who eat their bread with the buttered side down. In opposition are the Yooks, who eat their bread with the buttered side up. As the story progresses, their different views lead to an arms race and potentially an all-out war.
Well, the Zooks and the Yooks may have nothing on wearable computing fans, who are starting to sport devices that can record everything going on around them with a wink or subtle click, and the people who promise to confront violently anyone wearing one of these devices…”
May 27, 2013
How Your Digital Footprint Can Hurt You
I’ve seen business owners and personal contacts tarnish their reputations with a few words or a few clicks, not fully realizing the power of the digital world we now live in. Every picture you post, every status or page you like, and every update you share is essentially announcing to the world who you are, permanently.
May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013
Beyond Sexting: We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication
The Internet wasn’t built with security in mind, and we’re still dealing with the consequences of that. The next generations are going to be the ones who pay the true cost of the design decisions we make today.
May 27, 2013
Why Google's Idea to Get Technology 'Out of the Way' Is Short-Sighted
Today, the popular idea that our devices should fade into the background — exemplified by Google’s aim to get technology ‘out of the way’ via its Google Glass — is alarming. If technology becomes invisible to us, we risk losing sight of how it shapes us, for good and for ill.
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