Tag Archives: privacy

Eben Moglen’s Freedom in the Cloud Talk

Posted on 18 February, 2010 by Stef

I watched Eben’s speech but now I can quote it too thanks to the transcript done by the friends at Software Freedom Law Center. Talking about the problems of the cloud services, Eben hits Facebook hard with his rhetoric: The … Continue reading →

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Will Nokia become FLOSS best friend?

Posted on 17 March, 2009 by Stef

Google’s power is making more people concerned that their motto ‘do no evil’ is not reassuring enough. Fabrizio Capobianco’s blog post summarizes the concerns of the Winston Smith Project. Google is scary because it controls the access point to the … Continue reading →

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Freedom and privacy in hosted applications

Posted on 5 June, 2008 by Stef

I’m not a big believer of hosted applications mainly because they fail to deliver the ‘run everywhere there is a connection to the internet’ promise. Nonetheless, I’m using hosted apps very often, especially for school papers where I have to … Continue reading →

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Whitfield Diffie, genio della crittografia a chiave pubblica, a Roma

Posted on 23 January, 2008 by Stef

Flavia mi segnala un evento importante: giovedì 31 gennaio a Roma presso il Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università  La Sapienza parlerà  Whitfield Diffie, “padre” della crittografia a chiave pubblica insieme a Martin Hellman e Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems.’  Sarà ’  … Continue reading →

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Facebook admits mistake and changes policy

Posted on 10 December, 2007 by Stef

The protest of people on Facebook made the difference.’  Mark Zuckerberg wrote on FB’s blog We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them. We simply did a bad job … Continue reading →

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On social networks and human interactions

Posted on 3 December, 2007 by Stef

I have received recently half dozen invitations to join social web2.0 services: Roberto pointed me to twitter during a real life chat in Firenze, other invitations came via email to services like Plaxo pulse, Naymz, hi5, Spook and others. Many … Continue reading →

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Facebook: with great power comes great responsibility

Posted on 23 November, 2007 by Stef

I have been playing with Facebook lately to check its potential. Everything started when William Ward invited me there in a moment when I was vulnerable (it was before I started the MBA: a few weeks later and I would … Continue reading →

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