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Help Doctorow and the EFF lobby the W3C to permit security research
You know times are bad if security researchers are being threatened with legal action. That’s something the DMCA actually does: if you investigate whether DRM works or not, you might be breaking the law, and big companies can sue you. You know times are worse, when the pre-eminent web standards body, the W3C, is working […]
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Privacy is the new Green
About forty years ago, something remarkable happened: people across the western world began to realize that just because something has always been done, sometimes it may be better not to do it any more. Just because we’ve always drilled for any oil in the ground that we could find, sometimes it may be better to […]
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An e/immigrant’s reflections on Memorial Day
If you grew up in one country, and live in another, both of which repeatedly went to war against each other, Memorial Day is even more depressing. Every country has its own version of why its young and most promising had to die, or were maimed for their lifetimes. Americans have a noble narrative: “to […]
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Good Bye, Uncle Paul
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Breaking into that iPhone seems easy, for somebody with some money
(Money like the #FBI clearly has, as evidenced by the fact that they can afford a lenghty lawsuit over the issue) All you do is teardown the phone, unsolder the flash memory (see picture below from iFixIt), make 100,000 copies of the flash, resolder them into 100,000 iPhones, and assign 10 attempts each to 100,000 […]