The digital Privacy debate continues and the W3C are defining Do Not Track (DNT) standards right now. The goal is good, but I fear they are making things more complicated than they need to be. In an ideal world, users would have a choice over everything that gets shared and with whom it is shared. […]
Posts Categorized: User Experience
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: 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, […]
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Today’s Internet “blackouts” of the pending US SOPA and PIPA regulation (see the CRN slideshow for more details) exemplifies the “all or nothing” approaches deployed by both regulators and internet companies when it comes to regulation of sensitive issues such as IP, digital rights management and digital privacy. The intent of the legislation is good: […]
The Real Mobile Performance Problem
This morning I ran a speed test using my iPhone tethered to my MacBook Air (via Bluetooth). I was not so much interested in the actual download speed (which I found to be pretty impressive using a 2 1/2 year old iPhone), but more in the latency numbers. Here are the results – the top […]