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Who Would Have Thought?

Posted on 2016-12-29 by jcs

Via Matthew Green about this story: Who could have foreseen the always-on home microphone might be of interest to the cops? — Pinboard (@Pinboard) December 27, 2016 Who indeed? It’s almost like they’ve never heard of the iron law of … Continue reading →

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The Ultimate Privacy Guide

Posted on 2014-04-25 by jcs

From time to time I’ve mentioned articles that help you maintain your privacy. Some of us grumpy and misanthropic types have nothing to hide but do everything we can to maintain our privacy out of orneriness. If that sounds like … Continue reading →

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Sauce for the Gander

Posted on 2014-03-08 by jcs

I don’t understand why they’re so upset. After all, if they have nothing to hide…

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Keeping Your Data Safe From the NSA

Posted on 2013-06-24 by jcs

After another week of seemingly never ending revelations about government snooping into our phone calls and Web activities—you guys in Europe can stop snickering; you aren’t immune either—many of us are wondering how we can regain a modicum of privacy. … Continue reading →

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Email and Encryption

Posted on 2013-06-16 by jcs

In view of the NSA brouhaha, I’ve been thinking about encrypted email as a first step in keeping my private business private. Like most of you, I’m the proverbial “nothing to hide” netizen but I also have an instinctive dislike … Continue reading →

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Hiding Dired Details

Posted on 2024-10-24 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has another tweak to his Dired display environment. This time it’s a patch to hide the absolute path of the current directory in Dired listings. Ramírez likes to display minimal information in his Dired listings because, as he … Continue reading →

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Washington State Sues a Patent Troll

Posted on 2021-05-27 by jcs

As you all know, Irreal doesn’t think very highly of patent trolls. Of course, nobody (except patent trolls) thinks very highly of them. Some organisms that might be characterized as parasitical actually enjoy a symbiotic relationship with their hosts. Patent … Continue reading →

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Collapsing Empty Dired Paths

Posted on 2017-07-17 by jcs

One annoying feature of many modern development systems and sometimes even single programs is that they hide files or directories in a long, nested series of otherwise empty directories. That is, each directory other than the last contains only a … Continue reading →

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Reporters and Encryption

Posted on 2015-12-11 by jcs

Speaking of journalists, the Columbia Journalism Review gives them a good spanking for the terrible job they’re doing in covering the encryption wars. In How not to report on the encryption ‘debate’, the CJR takes reporters to task for swallowing … Continue reading →

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Metadata and You

Posted on 2014-03-27 by jcs

I know it’s preaching to the choir and even to me it seems like the gazillionith time I’ve written about it but we really must convince our friends and neighbors that metadata isn’t some harmless bit of information that’s on … Continue reading →

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