22sep2013
September 22, 2013
- N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web
- We should assume SSL and TLS traffic can be broken by organizations with power.
- Our Newfound Fear of Risk
- Here's the dilemma: individuals are terrible at assessing risk because we are human. On the other hand, organizations can't assess risks well either but for sociological reasons.
- Open Wide
- Private capital damages open commons, and online, it destroys the communities enabled by Web 2.0 platforms. If we are going to take back the Internet, is a Web 3.0 with decentralized communities a part of that?
- Tahoe-LAFS
- A decentralized store resistant to compromised nodes. It leaves the privacy to the application layer, and there is no story for anonymous read/write.
- The Infrastructure Engineers Guide to Entrepreneurship
- The premise is that infrastructure engineers can build companies offering platform infrastructure, but this presupposes that customers will know they need it before they've build a pile of code on top of quicksand. Still interesting for some of the advice.