There is a larger point here about leaks. First of all the HP reaction to the leak was all out of proportion to what happened. Their reaction was about control, not about protecting the company.
Secondly, leaks are about showing off and are corrosive to building trust. When you leak you are working for the reporter and their publication, not your company or your company's customers. That is what my blog post was about.
the more companies that make money by abusing our privacy, the more demand there is for privacy tools. The company which solves this problem will make a boat load of money.
Resistance to change by itself is not a good reason. But I have seen enough of the installations from hell to know that when end users do not adopt a proposed changed they often have very good reasons for staying with the old system. We are not there, we don't know their reasoning.
No one trusts their technology, yet not only are the machines still in place, they have exported them to Ireland, England, France, India and other countries.
I was referring to coldwetdog's comment, not the verdict. It is possible to think that you should pay for music and still think that the RIAA is out of control.
Slashdot Mirror
Reporters carry laptops. We will here about anything that inconveniences reporters.
has run a lot of dubious programming. This was one of the things they were actually pushing.
They can also be bogus, as in where a reporter just makes stuff up, but not in the case of the article cited above.
There is a larger point here about leaks. First of all the HP reaction to the leak was all out of proportion to what happened. Their reaction was about control, not about protecting the company. Secondly, leaks are about showing off and are corrosive to building trust. When you leak you are working for the reporter and their publication, not your company or your company's customers. That is what my blog post was about.
leaks are about showing off.
but what if you could make it convenient to protect your privacy? People might even pay money for that.
the Microsoft leaks were a calculated way to build public interest in new products. But what do I know.
the more companies that make money by abusing our privacy, the more demand there is for privacy tools. The company which solves this problem will make a boat load of money.
The company who figures out how to protect our privacy while using all the cool gadgets and online tools is going to make a boat load of money.
that was my reaction. What ever choice the White House made, it would still be a target for malicious hackers.
dunno about that the politics of this may not sort itself out along conventional lines.
I seem to recall there is some federal law about protecting children's online privacy; but presumably the makers of this software anticipated that.
Resistance to change by itself is not a good reason. But I have seen enough of the installations from hell to know that when end users do not adopt a proposed changed they often have very good reasons for staying with the old system. We are not there, we don't know their reasoning.
maybe, just maybe, DC civil servants have a good reason for not using Google aps.
No one trusts their technology, yet not only are the machines still in place, they have exported them to Ireland, England, France, India and other countries.
Privacy by design
just plain cool.
I wondered the same thing.
are going to be hearing a lot more about this.
There is a movement in the PR Industry to end astroturfing.
I assumed it was a way of shutting down TPB by buying it.
Didn't it not work out very well?
Perl is for formal occassions, like when you wear hat and gloves.
I was referring to coldwetdog's comment, not the verdict. It is possible to think that you should pay for music and still think that the RIAA is out of control.
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