So you live in Washington and your starting to see these things show up all over the place on poles. You don't think much about them until you realize they are everywhere.
What are they for you wonder to yourself. They are there to track you and everyone else around you.
"With the advent of national security letters and all the NSA issues
of late perhaps the web needs to implement a warrant 'warrant canary'
metatag. Something like this: .
With this it would be possible to build into browsers or browser
extensions a means of alerting users when a company has in fact received
such a secret warrant. (Similar to the actions taken by Apple recently.)
The
advantage the metatag approach would have its that it would not require
the user to search out a report by the company in question but would
show the information upon loading of the page. Once the canary metatag
was not found or when the date of the canary grows older than a given
date a warning could be raised. Several others have proposed similar
approaches including Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic and Cory Doctorow's Dead Man's Switch."
"Buried underneath the ever-growing pile of information about the mass surveillance methods of the NSA is a small but significant undercurrent of change
that's being driven by the anger and resentment of the large tech
companies that the agency has used as tools in its collection programs.
The changes have been happening since almost the minute the first
documents began leaking out of Fort Meade in June. When the NSA's PRISM
program was revealed this summer, it implicated some of the larger
companies in the industry as apparently willing partners in a system
that gave the agency 'direct access' to their servers. Officials at
Google, Yahoo and others quickly denied that this was the case, saying
they knew of no such program and didn't provide access to their servers
to anyone and only complied with court orders. More recent revelations
have shown that the NSA has been tapping the links between the data
centers run by Google and Yahoo, links that were unencrypted. That
revelation led a pair of Google security engineers to post some rather emphatic thoughts
on the NSA's infiltration of their networks. It also spurred Google to
accelerate projects to encrypt the data flowing between its data
centers. These are some of the clearer signs yet that these companies
have reached a point where they're no longer willing to be participants,
witting or otherwise, in the NSA's surveillance programs."
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Love Music?
A real~time Radio Search Engine
"From the guy who brought you CD syncing and the original music locker
(both of which saw lawsuits from record labels) comes the latest
invention to rock the music world: a real-time radio search engine.
1000s of worldwide stations are indexed in real-time and users can
search and play most any popular artist — even the digital holdouts
(Tool, Led Zeppelin,
etc) that are unavailable on paid services like Spotify. (Kinda wonder
why Google hasn't done this.) Link on main page points to an API for
those who want to build mobile and web services."
I tried it and found some great music to listen to. Bookmarked it.
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