Category: Big Picture
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My WiFi scale messages me: “we machines are ready to take over”
Got this e-mail yesterday: Hi Johannes.Ernst, Your Aria battery level is low. Replace your batteries as soon as possible. Your Aria scale is powered by 4 standard 1.5V AA batteries. This type of battery can be found wherever batteries are sold. To replace the batteries in your Aria… It took me a little while to…
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Happy to be on high-powered law school panel on internet privacy
When deciding to become an engineer, I’d never have thought just how broadly one can get involved in things beside making cool new stuff: I’ll be one of the panelists in a high-powered debate organized by Concord Law School at Quadrus in Palo Alto, on Saturday, June 8th. The debate is on “Balance of Public…
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Intro to Personal Clouds at IIW
This week, I had the honor to give the intro presentation on Personal Clouds at the Internet Identity Workshop. Dan Blum, previously Distinguished Analyst at Gartner and now with Respect Network, joined me in the second part. We had a packed room, and the audience reception was incredibly positive. It seemed the entire IIW has…
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Idea for how to secure my digital assets
Here’s an outline for how this problem could be solved. Note that this is only about “archived”, “backed-up” versions of the data, not production use. E.g. to edit my family pictures, I continue to have them on my PC. And to log into a website, I continue to use a local password manager. This is…
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Further thoughts on how to secure my digital assets
Further thoughts on this problem. It appears that my different digital assets should be managed using different protection levels. Examples: I don’t want my family photos to be publicly accessible. But if a few are, or even if all of them are, that’s a much smaller problem than if the login information for all of…