Fantastic, intricate values-in-design study of cookie development
Since cookies have been kind of a theme recently, it seems appropriate to post this long essay on the history of cookie development (which includes a link to a contrarian…
Firesheep
Short and sweet: a Firefox extension that exposes the fact that login cookies are transacted unencrypted for a lot of the biggest social networking sites -- meaning that you can…
Smart grid technology and privacy
Smart grid technology offers major improvements and efficiencies for our power system, creating a dynamically responsive grid that can do things like manage peak load energy consumption, optimize transmission routes,…
A proof-of-concept nearly irrevocable cookie
The always-fascinating Samy Kamkar has produced a super-tenacious cookie designed to "identify a client even after they've removed standard cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others." Indeed:…