Cautionary thoughts in the Age of Open Data -- except in despotic or paranoid
regimes.
bp
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Kate Lance
> Subject: [Sdi-latinamericacaribbean] Nicaragua: company convicted of theft of
> restricted cadastral information
> Date: December 5, 2013 12:52:59 PM EST
>
Ringo
Funny you should ask it that way -- 1983 to 2013 there was a group copied after
PSR called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
One of the many spin-offs from that has been Mark Rotenberg's Electronic
Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
Read about it in Wikipedia.. . . or h
Maybe this would help --
On the Mac platform, Lemkesoft's GraphicConverter is one of the oldest and most
versatile graphic media format conversion programs (AND a good photo editor) --
it currently works with 60+ formats and explicitly allows removing OR modifying
METADATA in batch mode.
www.l
That and get everyone to salt every message with a random assortment of words
and phrases from "flag lists"
On Jun 21, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:
> The solution to this is to make encryption more and more widely used. By
> increasing the number of people with access to encryptio
Decoupling might have been a feasible option in Thomas Jefferson's time
(although they DID create the UNITED States after experimenting with the more
decoupled "Articles of Confederation), but somehow in a nation of 300 million,
and a global system heading for 10 billion, I don't see it. At lea
The other point worth keeping in mind is that NSA can keep this data forever
(hence the humoungous cyber farm NSA is building in Utah) --
So a decade from now they can check the metadata to see if it fits some theory
a paranoid analyst thinks might have happened half a lifetime ago.
bp
On Jun
I have a friend working in a politically volatile environment overseas
environment who's interested in taking over a public e-mail group/listserv as a
public participation service. The friend is based in the US, but the focus of
the listserv is in a country where courts have held group moderator
