What If $AAPL Is Wrong?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601145/what-if-apple-is-wrong/ The risks of too much #privacy (ie of too strongly locking down our phones)
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What If Apple Is Wrong?
December 23, 2016The Moth | Stories | Data Mining for Dates
December 6, 2016Atlas Recall is a (mostly) photographic memory for your computing life
November 28, 2016Atlas Recall..a photographic memory for your computing life, by @Pogue http://finance.Yahoo.com/news/david-pogue-review-of-atlas-recall-160114345.html Captures all your screens. Pot. privacy issue
[]tags privacy,gadgets,x57s,pogue]
The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers – Medium
November 28, 2016The new MacBook Pro is…great for hackers
https://medium.com/@ageitgey/the-new-macbook-pro-is-kind-of-great-for-hackers-64c1c577a4d2#.o160nwo05 All open ports (#USBc) w. great potential for tricky charging combos
Data mining reveals that Pokemon Go players increased their activity levels by 25 percent on average
November 19, 2016Pokemon GO players increased their activity levels by 25%
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602706/pokemon-go-increased-us-activity-levels-by-144-billion-steps-in-just-30-days From doing query relating websearch terms w. band usage
Monitor and Find Everything from the Internet – Wireless Sensor Tags
November 19, 2016Monitor & Find Everything: Wireless #Sensor Tags
http://wirelesstag.net Useful for temp & motion. Can be combined w/ other stuff via @IFTTT
Now You Can See Everything Google Knows About You and Delete the Embarrassing Stuff
November 2, 2016See Everything #Google Knows About You (at MyActivity.Google.com) & Delete the Embarrassing Stuff
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/07/01/google_launches_my_activity_browsing_history_tool.html #privacy
15 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Dropbox
November 1, 2016Things…You Could Do with Dropbox
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/15-things-didnt-know-dropbox/ interesting bits about overlay photoshoot.io domain & 200Gb/day bandwidth limit
How Twitter Is Changing Modern Warfare – The Atlantic
October 24, 2016How Twitter Is Changing…#Warfare
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/war-goes-viral/501125/ Changing the traditional emphasis from information secrecy to wide broadcast
How Hackers Could Send Your Polling Station into Chaos
October 19, 2016How Hackers Could Send Your Polling Station into Chaos
https://www.TechnologyReview.com/s/602484/how-hackers-could-send-your-polling-station-into-chaos Corrupting voter registration DBs to affect #election turnout
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