Upon2020 (archive)
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Local network services for IoT devices could be a game changer
Peter Hoddie, principal and prime mover at Internet of Things startup Moddable picked up my recent piece on why we need an Indie IoT and expanded on it. Some choice quotes: Johannes describes an “Indie IoT.” His vision is appealing. He believes users should be in control of the devices … in control of the…
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Hedging the future by funding alternatives with some of our dollars
Peter Hoddie wrote a long piece in response to my recent Indie IoT post. I’ll have more to say, for now I just want to pick up one fascinating thought that Peter writes about (and attributes to Cory Doctorow): He encouraged us to “hedge,” not to completely stop purchasing products that disrespect our rights, but…
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We need to solve Credential Recovery once and for all
[Update: I now have a proposal for how to solve this: Paradux] First we picked a good password, which we reused for many sites all over the web. Some of those sites were broken into, so the bad guys got their hands on our passwords and promptly impersonated us all over the web. Reusing passwords…
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The Internet of Things could be great, if only we didn’t let the tech giants own it
Famous sci-fi author Bruce Sterling said it well in his non-fiction essay The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things: The internet of things … is neither about internet nor things, but a battle … for the control of property. Too dramatic for you? Well, it’s prime holiday shopping season, and so I went browsing…
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Own a Mac? Know Unix/Linux? Like to be baffled?
Then do this: find ~ -name DataVaults # Note what it says, then ls -al ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/DataVaults Mysterious, isn’t it? The explanation seems to be here.