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In this excerpt from his memoir, the NSA whistleblower describes his realization that no one should have to "pretend to be perfect."
Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones.
Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones.
Zelfs de kalmste mensen kunnen in opgefokte monsters veranderen zodra ze de weg op gaan. Waar komt die road rage vandaan en vooral: wat kun je eraan doen? Ik stapte in de auto met een super-ervaren rij-instructeur en leerde: kijk door het glas, rubber en blik en zie de mens.
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.
Het meewerken aan het inbrengen van het Stuxnet-virus door de AIVD in nucleaire systemen in Iran vindt geen rechtvaardiging in de toen bekende feiten.
For the last few months I’ve been organizing my days—but more importantly setting my expectations of a day—differently. It’s based on a few articles I’ve read over the years and s…
Eleanor Saitta’s (previously) 2016 essay “Coercion-Resistant Design” (which is new to me) is an excellent introduction to the technical countermeasures that systems designers can …
Early this month, Google’s Project Zero revealed a breathtaking attack on multiple OSes, including Apple’s Ios, in which a website that served Uyghur people was found to be hosting at l…
Early this month, Google’s Project Zero revealed a breathtaking attack on multiple OSes, including Apple’s Ios, in which a website that served Uyghur people was found to be hosting at l…
Indymedia defined an early era of networked protest — and showed us another way the web could work. The streets that night were carless. They were...
It didn’t go well.
Purism — Private and Secure Hardware, Software, and Services
Econoom Bryan Caplan stelt dat onderwijs een verspilling is van tijd en geld. Misschien een nogal extreme stelling. Maar wél eentje die aan het denken zet over het nut van de 43 miljard euro die in Nederland jaarlijks naar onderwijs gaat.
Kevin Werbach considers the pitfalls and the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain, explored in three recent publications.
The MIT-Epstein debacle shows ‘the prostitution of intellectual activity’. Time for a radical agenda: close the Media Lab, disband Ted Talks and refuse tech billionaires money
After the death of Zoë Quinn's alleged abuser, the trolls have escalated their racket, raising the question of whose mental health society tries to protect.
“Differential privacy” (previously) is a promising, complicated statistical method for analyzing data while preventing reidentification attacks that de-anonymize people in aggregated da…
I once found myself staying in a small hotel with a “State Department” family whose members clearly all worked for some kind of three letter agency (the family patriarch had been with U…
If your crush isn’t on Dating, doesn’t create a Secret Crush list, or doesn’t put you on their list — then no one will know that you’ve entered their name.
Yesterday Facebook announced it was changing its settings for face recognition, which it has used since 2010 to match known faces in user profile pictures and other photos to unknown faces in newly uploaded photos. This leads to two questions:What exactly has Facebook changed?How many Facebook...
Op pagina twee van NRC las ik vorige week een angstaanjagend bericht. Er is een nieuw tijdperk aangebroken,
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You know what’s great about putting wifi-enabled, Turing-complete computers into things like lightbulbs? Not. A. Single. Fucking. Thing.
Our face recognition setting provides an easy on or off switch.
New records obtained by the Appeal show the account seems to have been monitoring Black Lives Matter activists for years.
De zomer is voorbij en er moet weer gewerkt worden. Daarom bezoek ik borrels en recepties waar mensen samenkomen in het voornemen fris aan de slag te gaan. Nog een laatste bitterbal, daarna wordt het ernst. En omdat ik schrijver ben, leggen de receptiegangers me uit hoe corruptie in hun kringen werkt, dan ben ik ook weer bijgepraat. „Jij weet het natuurlijk niet, want jij leeft in je eigen veilige…
Staten hacken elkaar en infiltreren elkaars netwerken. Nederland is zeker niet alleen slachtoffer van deze internationale digitale wapenwedloop. Sterker: de Nederlandse geheime diensten lopen daarin voorop. Dit laat het onthullende boek van Volkskrant-journalist Huib Modderkolk zien.
China is intercepting texts from WeChat users living outside of the country, mostly from the U.S. Taiwan, South Korea, and Australia. NPR reports:
The popular Chinese messaging app WeChat is Zhou Fengsuo's most reliable communication link to China. That's because he hasn't been back in over two dec...
The popular Chinese messaging app WeChat is Zhou Fengsuo's most reliable communication link to China. That's because he hasn't been back in over two dec...
A year ago I wrote a blog post about living with an open-source phone. A commenter on Reddit described this as “tech veganism,” and I thought it was a great metaphor. For the past few y…
Created by Richard Vijgen, 'WiFi Impressionist' is a field installation inspired by the cityscapes of William Turner that imagines the city as an electromagnetic landscape.
Ruim twee maanden geleden kondigde Facebook aan een mondiale digitale munt te lanceren. De kritiek op deze plannen groeit. Terecht, want er zijn zeker vier heel grote problemen die eerst opgelost moeten worden.
They work because machine vision and human vision are different
De mondige moeder Perle Miangue uit Eindhoven kwam vorig jaar als zwarte vrouw terecht in een intimiderende menigte van pro-Zwarte Piet-demonstranten. Ze besloot tegen hen in te gaan en kwam in een filmpje van Vice dat miljoenen keren werd bekeken. Haar verzet maakte indruk op me, dus besloot ik haar te traceren.
First detailed look at Poland's challenge to the EU Copyright Directive
Image taken from Roche et al 2014 A lot of the contemporary debate around digital surveillance and data-mining focuses on privacy. Thi...
Fotograaf Thijs Heslenfeld heeft aangifte gedaan tegen Facebook bij het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) in Amsterdam, schrijft De Volkskrant . ...
The absurd and remarkable story of Sealand, a “micronation” on an eerie metal platform, tells us plenty about libertarianism, national sovereignty, and the lawlessness of the ocean.
The powerful lesson of a 5-year-old harassment campaign: How to wage a post-truth information war.
Hoeveel pogingen heeft Serena nodig om een drone uit de lucht te slaan?
Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored
Wat ik hier interessant aan vond is dat ze het niet alleen hebben over het regularen van de makers van IoT, maar dat ze ook verkennen of de kopers van IoT te reguleren zijn. En dat doen ze met een data-driven approach.
One in four firms holding a test subject's data released it to her partner without her permission.
Security researcher Joseph Tartaro thought NULL would make a fun license plate. He's never been more wrong.
Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.
Apologies to anyone who shares the name, but two designers in Chicago are taking on electoral gerrymandering in a new font called Gerry. The font, created by Ben Doessel and James Lee, is composed of 26 districts whose absurd boundaries resemble alphabet letters much more than they resemble logical,
Een mooi artikel over hoe problematisch het is als winkels geen cash accepteren (onder meer slecht voor de ‘undocumented’) met een mooie tip voor wat wij elke dag in het Vlaamsch Broodhuys zouden moeten zeggen.
Al meer dan een jaar schrijf ik vanuit Nigeria over migratie. Een aantal misverstanden blijf ik tegenkomen. Aan de hand van de levens van Nigerianen die ik ontmoette, zet ik de zes hardnekkigste op een rij.
Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Hi! My name is Michael W. Twitty and I’m one of those interpreters who has watched you squirm or run away. I’m not a reenactor, because G-d f…
Dit is heel nice. Kijk er even vijf minuten naar.