post-security: public
Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1GZTK42 at November 02, 2015 at 11:46AM

Last week I reblogged a NY Times article about internet shaming:  How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

It referenced a book called “So, You’ve Been Shamed on the Internet”. The book discusses many topics, but the one that stands out was how we ( Read more... )

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.....

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"Today's privacy debate will bemuse the denizens of 2025, contended Hal Varian, Google's chief economist.
"By 2025, the current debate about privacy will seem quaint and old-fashioned," he wrote in his survey comments.

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Fandom usually jumps into technologies, uses them, and then acts surprised when we realize that we have no clue what we're doing or how the use of the new tech has changed an aspect of our fandom culture. Right now a few authors are posting notices that you need permission to link to their fanworks in "public spaces". Or that they'd prefer ( Read more... )

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URGENT: Call the FCC every day from now until they make their decision on net neutralityboingboing.net

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, “Hey Internet, this is it. We are going to win or lose the fight for net neutrality and online free speech in the next few weeks.


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 You're the United States, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see an Africa. It's infected with Ebola. You reach down and flip the Africa over on its back. It lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, using third-rate medical systems trying to fend off the Ebola. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're ( Read more... )

 Digital Amnesia, a Dutch documentary on archives....
About the film:

Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts because we assume that everything can be ( Read more... )

 "Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93. The day’s fourth hijacked airliner seemed to be hurtling toward Washington. Penney, one of the ( Read more... )

 The info you submit will be public

1. Go to http://www.fcc.gov/comments 
2. Click on 14-28
3. Comment "I want internet service providers classified as common carriers."
4. Hit Confirm on the next page
5. Done [A Dreamwidth post with
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