#security

http://themha.com/airlock/

Mac App that allows locking/unlocking and other actions based on proximity of iphone. There's a pot...

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/facebooks-new...

Essentially: whenever any of your friends posts an app, the developer of that app get all the data a...

http://www.bogost.com/blog/cascading_failure.shtml

Interesting article about the knock on effects of Google's increasing level of control over the web....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/16/police-de...

I'm going to want this to refer to at some point in the next while. Also: for fucks sake! Inster st...

http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorten...

I've been saying that using URL shorteners is a bad idea for for a while, so I thought I'd link to J...

http://www.bratton.info/emergency.html

Highlight " Because as software becomes a medium through which the city is accessed and made social,...

http://antimega.textdriven.com/antimega/2009/03/15...

Insight into why password security may be a flawed model for websites.

http://www.hungry-hackers.com/2008/08/gmail-accoun...

Well worth reading if you *ever* access your gmail via public wifi. It's a simple fix that will mak...

http://db.tidbits.com/article/9665

Yes, apparently there's a fairly dangerous OSX exploit in the wild. But look: a couple of paragraphs...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305...

I need to sort this out for my iphone, just so the wifi's a bit more secure when I'm out and about.

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/weblogs/pmeunier/poli...

Simple, clear demonstration of how arse-backwards authorities are in dealing with people who report...

http://www.siteadvisor.com/preview/

At a glance ratings for general site safety, including level of spam generation, whether the downloa...