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TCLP 2012-05-14 How This Hacker Sees Public Policy

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

I will not be headed to OSCon in July after all but will be keeping my other event and travel commitments for the rest of this month, and June.

The hacker word of the week this week is fork.

The feature this week is another monologue trying to bring to the surface my hackish assumptions, this time on how I see public policy, especially my own experiences in cultivating a second career recently in this space.

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By Thomas Gideon – May 14, 2012

Following Up for the Week Ending 5/13/2012

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By Thomas Gideon – May 14, 2012

Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 5/13/2012

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By Thomas Gideon – May 14, 2012

feeds | grep links > Simple Privacy Icons, Meta-analysis of File Sharing Studies, Twitter Fights Subpoenaes of OWS Info, and More

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By Thomas Gideon – May 8, 2012

feeds | grep links > 3D Printed Circuit Boards, Magnetic Bacteria Building Bio-computers, National Experiment in Digital Currency, and More

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By Thomas Gideon – May 8, 2012

TCLP 2012-05-07 News

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.

I will be at Freedom to Connect later this month, then at Balticon. In June, I will be in London from the 7th to the morning of the 19th. I will be taking a brief side trip to Paris the 10th through the 12th. In July, I will be at OSCon. Come and find me at any of these events or places or feel free to send a note if you are interested in a meet up.

This week’s security alerts are a proof of concept Android trojan that uses motion sensors to capture sensitive data and one of the first responses to the recent string of SSL concerns spins up.

In this week’s news, millions of Harvard library catalog records made openly available, first legal focus hackathon, single layer silicon compound could beat graphene to market, and 1Gbps wireless network made with plain old red and green laser pointers.

Following up this week CISPA veto recommended by White House and mainstream media ponders how The Pirate Party may be changing politics itself.

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By Thomas Gideon – May 7, 2012

Following Up for the Week Ending 5/7/2012

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By Thomas Gideon – May 6, 2012

Quick Security Alerts for the Week Ending 5/6/2012

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By Thomas Gideon – May 6, 2012

feeds | grep links > DuckDuckGo CrowdSources Plugins, History of Key Design, Judge Rules IP Address is Not a Person, and More

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By Thomas Gideon – May 3, 2012

feeds | grep links > Stock Exchange for Personal Data, 3D Printed Electromechanical Computer, Intel Response to Raspberry Pi, and More

  • A Stock Exchange for Your Personal Data
    Technology Review describes what I think superficially is an intriguing idea, of enabling truster operators, brokers, to help those more or less concerned about privacy negotiate prices for their data appropriate to their respective stances. The problem is I don’t think it takes into account longitudinal affects, that is how data may get shared and re-shared well beyond the initial point of exchange. I am concerned at trying to solve issues around controlling data using a market mechanism, especially given how easily a lot of seemingly rational models in the lab are entirely overturned by actual behavior in the real world.
  • 3D Printed Electromechanical Computer
    There is something immensely delightful about the use of bleeding edge home 3D printing that MAKE points out in its use to resurrect an earlier form of computing. Since we don’t yet have personal scale printers that can printer mixed materials with the sophistication of electronic circuitry, this can also be thought of as a clever hack, to still produce an object capable of at least rudimentary computation.
  • Intel bakes palm-sized Core i5 NUC to rival Raspberry Pi • The Register
    While the Intel Next Unit of Computing detailed in this article on The Register isn’t directly comparable to the Pi in either its form factor or intended market, I do think it is a pretty strong signal that the Pi is yet another category creating innovation, like the OLPC for netbooks and the iPhone for the modern smart phone. I am excited to see what competition for this new class of computer does in terms of enabling more widespread, accessible and bottom up innovation.
  • Event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the mysterious Voynich manuscript, Boing Boing
  • Mozilla Opens Doors on New $3 Million Data Center, Wired Enterprise at Wired.com
  • Study explains how retailers stop Linux from entering the market, The H Open Source: News and Features

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By Thomas Gideon – May 1, 2012

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