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Pseudonymous data should not be exempted from data protection
Whether a data record refers to me by name, or by email address, or by a strong pseudonym that cryptographically prevents the pseudonym to be linked to me does not really matter. The data refers to me, and the data will be used, within that context, to judge me, make decisions about me, etc. via […]
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Project Byzantium
For the moment, we’ve won the battle against normal workaday life and fixed the final bug preventing us from publishing the latest release of Byzantium Linux, which we codenamed Beach Cat after our time in New York City late last year. v0.3a is now available via BitTorrent and direct download on our distribution page. Please […]
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What’s wrong with the kids these days? | PUSCII blog
A lot has changed since the days when the people around Hacktic set up and defined the Dutch hacker scene. The Hang Out made way for a variety of hackerspaces; Hacktic itself is long dead (who needs dead trees to communicate nowadays anyway?) and the crew organizing OHM2013 is a completely different one from the […]
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Phones as swords, lovers, robots and spies
Highlighting the diversity of perception and perspective when it comes to mobile media, Freitas first spoke of the phone as a sword, with users now gaining great potential to change, damage and restrict existing structures every time they take hold of these ostensibly innocuous devices. Then there is the idea of the mobile as something […]
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unCloud
unCloud is an application that enables anyone with a laptop to create an open wireless network and distribute their own information. Once it is launched, a passerby using a mobile internet device can connect to this open wireless network. The person running the application can decide what information is shown in any web address. Users […]
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Conversation with Eleanor Saitta
On this week’s show James Butler is joined by Eleanor Saita (@Dymaxion) as they discuss networks, technology, undead institutions, the state-form and the ‘coming crisis’. Listen on Soundcloud #dymaxion #lawandpolitics #lookingforsolutions #networkpolitics
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RSS – Selfhosted
So. In case you missed it. Google Reader is Dead. Time to fullfill an old lived dream: having my self-hosted RSS reader. At first glance there seems to be only one viable option: FeedaFever: it is the only other service that will sync with my beloved Reeder. But it costs $30,-. Looks promising tough. But […]
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ownCloud 5 released: a vision realized, a vision expanded
Today we are deciding how the world will look like in the future. We, the IT community, set the course of the train that is called “open society” now and we can decide into which station the train will roll into in 5-10 years. Is it the one where all the people still control their […]
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Drie overgebleven dataweigeraars – Datadagboek #5
Amsterdam, 15 maart 2013Verdrietig wellicht, ontgoocheld ook. Maar niet boos. Nooit boos. Je moet overtuigd zijn van kwade bedoelingen voordat je echt boos kan zijn. Zoals een wijs man ooit eens zei: wijt niet aan slechte intenties wat je ook met domheid kan verklaren. Vandaar dat ik probeer XS4ALL, de ANWB en T-Mobile het voordeel […]
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How Facebook could get you arrested
While Facebook might be more effective than police in predicting crime, it cannot be allowed to take on these policing functions without also adhering to the same rules and regulations that spell out what police can and cannot do in a democracy. We cannot circumvent legal procedures and subvert democratic norms in the name of […]
The collapse is already here. It is just not evenly distributed.