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Putting your kettle on the Internet of Things makes your wifi passwords an open secret
mostlysignssomeportents: The $150 Smarter Ikettle lets you start your water boiling from anywhere in the world over the Internet – and it also contains long-term serious security vulnerabilities that allow attackers to extract your wifi passwords from it. To connect to the Internet, the Ikettle needs to know your wifi password, which it stores in…
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I am clear about all of that … and yet I don’t care. I do not care if free college won’t solve inequality. As an isolated policy, I know that it won’t. I don’t care that it will likely only benefit the high achievers among the statistically unprivileged—those with above-average test scores, know-how, or financial…
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IoOOOT
IoOOOT IoOOOT the Internet of Object Oriented Ontology Things this is my fumbling misinterpretation of, mashup of, two ideas past their peak on the hype curve, trending toward the well of despair, it – the mashup – is a response to (@bruces) Bruce Sterling’s request for help in conceiving what has come to be known…
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Bruce Sterling’s design future manifesto: viva spime! #10yrsago
mostlysignssomeportents: Bruce Sterling has written a fantastic nonfiction book about the future of industrial design and society, and it’s the most thought-provoking thing I’ve read all year. Sterling is a brilliant science fiction writer. Virtuoso novels likeDistraction have earned him an indelible place in the field. But as good as his novels are, I like…
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Four principal wizards inhabited my childhood. These were, in order of discovery, TH White’s Merlin, JRR Tolkien’s Gandalf, Susan Cooper’s Merriman Lyon and Ursula K Le Guin’s Ged, more commonly known as Sparrowhawk, true names being a serious business in Earthsea. Other magicians and witches also lived on my boyhood bookshelf, but even at 10…
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code drawing catalog
I’ve spent the last ten days creating a comprehensive catalog of my code drawings. I’ve set up an infrastructure so that I can catalog my other projects as well. First the drawings from 2015. Then the posts for the drawings from 2013 and 2014 were backdated to the date of the creation of the respective…
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DoJ to Apple: your software is licensed, not sold, so we can force you to decrypt
mostlysignssomeportents: The DoJ is currently trying to force Apple to decrypt data stored on a defendant’s Iphone, and Apple, to its great credit, is fighting back, arguing that on the one hand, it doesn’t have the technical capability to do so; and on the other, should not be required to do so. A new filing…