Upon2020 (archive)
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“World After Capital” Summary
When a Venture Capitalist writes a book “World after Capital“, it might be worth paying attention. If he happens to be a partner at Union Square Ventures in New York, you know it’s going to be good. Here are my notes about his draft book which is available for under a Creative Commons License in…
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The wars between tech firms and governments are beginning
First there was Apple vs. the FBI about decrypting iPhone data. As Snowden put it: The @FBI is creating a world where citizens rely on #Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around. https://t.co/vdjB6CuB7k — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February 17, 2016 Now Microsoft is suing the US Justice department over secrecy orders…
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Good Bye, Uncle Paul
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Spam or not spam — I cannot tell, dear United Healthcare
Occasionally I get e-mail that looks like this. I cannot tell whether this is spam or a just very badly made actual e-mail from United Health, my health insurer: Here’s the evidence: Sender: uhcenews@unitedhealthcare-hmhb.com. Looks very suspicious, as anybody can register a domain like that. Googling the e-mail address produces 18 hits, on mostly strange…
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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…