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  • ANONYMITY AS THE DEFAULT

    “Anonymity should be the default” doesn’t say what I mean. Sorry to have put it badly. “Defaults” come to us from the software world where shipping software with the right options turned on can make or break a product. It may be that anonymity is the right default option for digital ID management software, but…

  • Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites

    http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19025556.200 “I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves.” So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software. He is far from alone in noticing that fast-growing social networking websites such as MySpace and Friendster are a snoop’s dream. New Scientist…