My article on Skype exposing address books to the world has gone mini-viral. Written in 2017, it's gotten dozens of citations in early 2019. A reporter approached me, asking if the problem still exists. After doing some research, here's what I've found. Microsoft’s...
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The ongoing joke that is Silicon Valley Privacy
SnapChat just revised their privacy policy. I decided to read it. It looked pretty good. Then I got to the section How We Use Your Information. How does SnapChat use the information? To provide services. To communicate with me. To monitor trends. And so on. The final...
Betrayal of Users. Market forces just don’t work.
Chuckle. I deleted WHISPER because it was vapid beyond all belief, and not particularly interesting. It turns out that the stuff people say if they're anonymous is droll, predictable, and mainly drivel. Except ... it turns out that Whisper was tracking people after...
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Having a single login mechanism, Google, Facebook, or Yahoo, starts to create what I think is a dangerous concentration of information about people and their activities.