29sep2013
- How Your Free Labor Lets Tech Giants Grow the Wealth Gap
- Flawed. Web 2.0 is a replacement for television, and the money in
that market is coming from traditional advertising. It’s a mistake
to call the time people spend on these websites "labor" any more
than sitting on the couch watching TV is "labor." There is no new
wealth being created, and it’s dangerous to think there is.
- Metadata Equals Surveillance
- Metadata can be used for 1) traffic analysis, and 2) coalescing
multiple online identities into one actual profile. It’s all NSA
needs to tell the UK’s
GCHQ
to tell the FBI where to raid.
- Usability in Free Software
- How to conduct usability testing on the cheap and with distributed
teams. Love the tip of doing testing at shopping malls.
- Factoring RSA Keys from Certified Smart Cards
- There are weak keys being using with SSH, mostly because of problems
in random-number generators. Also provides a service to check your
own SSH public keys.
- Decyphering the Business Card Raytracer
- Complete raytracer that fits on the back of a business card.
- 8 Steps for Engineering Leaders to Keep the Peace
- Dealing with the reality of resource and time constraints in product
development.
