As we continue our discussions on Privacy i’m drawn more and more to thinking about the core problem. Colloquially you’d hear this expressed as either the 800LB Gorilla or the Elephant… in the room. First lets start with a simple and elegant definition of Privacy. Selmer and Blekeli in 1977: Privacy is the legitimate […]
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Privacy: Making SSL faster, and why Do Not Track is NOT using it
In my last post: Privacy: What “Do Not Track” really needs to make it enforceable (and verifiable) – HTTPS I finished up asking what would could be done to speed up encryption and SSL. Before we answer the question lets chat a moment about what SSL or TLS (Transaction Layer Security) is. Here’s the definition from […]
Privacy: What “Do Not Track” really needs to make it enforceable (and verifiable) – HTTPS
In an earlier post – Privacy: X marks the spot where… I wrote about one of the problems with enforcing the Do Not Track header (the issue with caching servers and how do you enforce and verify the Do Not Track header was really sent?). So I thought I should offer a suggestion to improve […]
Privacy: X marks the spot where…
In the beginning there was the Internet… and the Internet was HTTP The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, […]
Privacy on the Internet is NOT binary – But what if it was?
Back at the end of October last year I wrote a blog post on why Privacy on the Internet is NOT “binary”. So I thought I would follow up with another blog post discussing the alternative viewpoint – What if it was binary? Well first we need a little context about the Internet and how […]