Bruce Schneier makes a solid point in his recent post entitled “Home Users: A Public Health Problem?”, where he states that computers and computer security are much too complicated for the regular home user. That’s most certainly true. No matter how much you “educate” the average user, they’re still going to mess up big time. [...]
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This article by Anne Broach of CNET News sheds light on what’s going to be a big problem in the near future, for privacy reasons: storing of user traffic data by ISPs, in data warehouses available for government queries. The government wants to mandate this through law.
Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the [...]
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Download ComeAcross Podcast 8
Summary: America is swimming in debt, chicken grow teeth, Monty Python is back, RIAA says ripping your own CDs is illegal, Iraq war now Long War, forget Jobs - look at Woz, Mac hacks run OS X on PCs, new eye test for Alzheimer’s, hackers rebel against spy cams, creating [...]
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