Fascinating take on the history and expletive-ridden-ness of Diamonds on Priceonomics:
So here is a modest proposal: Let’s agree that diamonds are bullshit and reject their role in the marriage process. Let’s admit that as a society we got tricked for about century into coveting sparkling pieces of carbon, but it’s time to end the nonsense.
Yes.
Brian Donohue on threatpost reports:
“We believe that people shouldn’t have to make a trade-off between security and ease of use. This is why we’re happy to support Simply Secure, a new organization dedicated to improving the usability and safety of open-source tools that help people secure their online lives,” Meredith Whittaker and Ben Laurie of Google said.
As great as these initiatives sounds, it somehow still feels like the two companies are only there so then they would be able to say, “we do care about user security! See? We have this initiative”. It feels like PR speaks to me.
What i would appreciate as a user of their service is more transparency regarding their usage of user data and their communication with government agency. Also, how about not having people associated with the issue as one of your board member? That would be helpful.
Alex Hern on The Guardian wrote:
According to figures from LONAP, the internet exchange point that provides the physical infrastructure for much of England’s internet service providers, downloads peaked at more than 70 gigabits a second at 8pm Wednesday – a 60% increase on the same time the day before.
Amazing. And while i’m on this topic, I can’t imagine being the CEO of an ISP who sees these kinds of traffic uptakes without looking at the possibilites of selling some kinds of “value added” products1. Let’s hope net neutrality win and we can still see these headlines without the word “profit” in them.