Comments on: Microsoft’s Competitive Advantage: Privacy

By: Benlog » Putting the “End” in EndNote.

Benlog » Putting the “End” in EndNote. — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:02:36 +0000

[...] apparently that’s not okay with Thomson Reuters, the makers of EndNote. Danny Weitzner explains: The latest beta release of Zotero will read and write EndNote’s proprietary metadata format. In [...]

By: Rhys Paul Hovey

Rhys Paul Hovey — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:54:50 +0000

Hello, my name is Rhys Paul Hovey, computer scientist. I was living in Hollywood california, working in the games industry, studying to be an actor, and I called the FBI looking for information on scientology. Since then, I have fallen victim to a high tech mafia, that uses satalite technologies to torture their victims with SOUND,. queit but audible sound. These criminals also are capable of decoding “subvocal” speech directly from neural tissues, from long distances. This text drives a computer AI which tortures the victim. You (Ben Adida)are in an assocation list that is being sent to the FBI in the best interests of national security and the saftey of America and Canada, please be forwarned. MIT is also being investigated by me (an applicant to cybercrime divisions) Joseph Pomepi, Collin Phillips, David Poepeil and several others. Joseph Pompei has been caught lying about this sound technology as well. The ACLU is also a suspect. You all may be related to a 9-11 terrorist cover. Please feel free to visit me at 1949 comox st, in Vancouver, Canada.

By: Rhys Paul Hovey

Rhys Paul Hovey — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:53:45 +0000

Hello, my name is Rhys Paul Hovey, computer scientists. I was living in Hollywood california, working in the games industry, studying to be an actor, and I called the FBI looking for information on scientology. Science then, I have fallen victim to a high tech mafia, that uses satalite technologies to torture their victims with SOUND,. queit but audible sound. These criminals also are capable of decoding “subvocal” speech directly from neural tissues, from long distances. This text drives a computer AI which tortures the victim. You (Ben Adida)are in an assocation list that is being sent to the FBI in the best interests of national security and the saftey of America and Canada, please be forwarned. MIT is also being investigated by me (an applicant to cybercrime divisions) Joseph Pomepi, Collin Phillips, David Poepeil and several others. Joseph Pompei has been caught lying about this sound technology as well. The ACLU is also a suspect. You all may be related to a 9-11 terrorist cover. Please feel free to visit me at 1949 comox st, in Vancouver, Canada.

By: Benlog » Google, the Desktop, and Privacy

Benlog » Google, the Desktop, and Privacy — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:12:38 +0000

[...] Desktop for Mac, and that got me thinking again about the Google and Privacy issue I wrote about here and here. I said that Microsoft might have an interesting privacy advantage, because your data [...]

By: Benlog » Google & Privacy

Benlog » Google & Privacy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:51:05 +0000

[...] a notable improvement in their privacy practices, which reinforces the opinion I expressed in a post a few days ago. Could it be that Google is starting to feel consumer demand for privacy? I think it’s [...]

By: ben

ben — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:54:27 +0000

I think Google doesn’t provide much in terms of privacy assurances. Few people have been horribly burned so far, but that will likely change as businesses start using Google Apps, etc… There is certainly a lack of awareness of the privacy issues regarding storing your data at a service provider, you’re right. But that awareness may go up significantly as soon as there a few bad cases.

I’m less worried about data in transit than I am about data stored on hard drives, backups, etc…. But of course that doesn’t mean one should be careless about data in transit, you’re right.

By: Name

Name — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:15:41 +0000

I don’t see this as a significant advantage. The average consumer is not concerned by this (and rightly so). Why? Because Google hasn’t given them a reason not to trust them. Google provides various assurances (like no human reads your email - it’s only accessible to programs - or something like that.) Unless you think Google is lying about that, most people are happy enough with that. And if you think you can’t trust Google that much, you’ll be out of luck using the Internet given your lack of control over your data as it hops about once it is off your host, no?

By: John Palfrey » Blog Archive » Ira Rubinstein on Microsoft’s Corporate Privacy Guidelines

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:29:56 +0000

[...] of the conversation, prompted by JZ and Ben Adida, revolved around a lawyer’s problem: what happens after a subpoena arrives seeking personally [...]