And how is it that you think this can be implemented? The only way to allow wiretaps on an individual is to allow wiretaps on every line they might use.
I'm sure that won't lead to any abuses by the authorities...
I agree that a password store/person profile store is very useful... but why does it have to be online?
Why couldn't you store the required info in an (encrypted) store on your machine and use that to answer the types of requests you are talking about. Same result to the end user without having all this information in some remote store.
You could go further and set the system to autmoatically answer requests in some cases (perhaps in cases where the site has a P3P policy meeting certain conditions, etc.) and you could have every response be part of a digitally signed package that provided a "paper-trail" of exactly what you shared with that site and what purpose they claimed they would use it for.
Much better solution, without MS holding all my data.
Regardless of what you think before reading American Gods, after you've read it you are going to think of Gaiman as someone who writes damn good novels.
I suspect that this time next year you won't hear of Neil as "Sandman creator Neil Gaiman", but rather as "Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods".
The novel takes advantage of Neil's strength in the short form, since viewed from one vantage it is a series of smaller stories that happen on a mad road-trip through America. However, these smaller stories are part of a bigger picture that has all of the overtones and resonances that can happen when someone who knows what they are doing works at novel length.
Trust me. Buy this book and read it and you won't think of Neil as someone who is a novelist second to anything else.
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"in the marionette's eyes
glimpse the nature of the wire"
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And how is it that you think this can be implemented? The only way to allow wiretaps on an individual is to allow wiretaps on every line they might use.
I'm sure that won't lead to any abuses by the authorities...
I agree that a password store/person profile store is very useful... but why does it have to be online?
Why couldn't you store the required info in an (encrypted) store on your machine and use that to answer the types of requests you are talking about. Same result to the end user without having all this information in some remote store.
You could go further and set the system to autmoatically answer requests in some cases (perhaps in cases where the site has a P3P policy meeting certain conditions, etc.) and you could have every response be part of a digitally signed package that provided a "paper-trail" of exactly what you shared with that site and what purpose they claimed they would use it for.
Much better solution, without MS holding all my data.
Regardless of what you think before reading American Gods, after you've read it you are going to think of Gaiman as someone who writes damn good novels.
I suspect that this time next year you won't hear of Neil as "Sandman creator Neil Gaiman", but rather as "Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods".
The novel takes advantage of Neil's strength in the short form, since viewed from one vantage it is a series of smaller stories that happen on a mad road-trip through America. However, these smaller stories are part of a bigger picture that has all of the overtones and resonances that can happen when someone who knows what they are doing works at novel length.
Trust me. Buy this book and read it and you won't think of Neil as someone who is a novelist second to anything else.
--
"in the marionette's eyes
glimpse the nature of the wire"
Read 'Distraction', not for the cognition/biotech bits, but for the incisive look at the political process in a wired and image-spun world.
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"in the marionette's eyes
glimpse the nature of the wire"