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My friend Sean and his company, ChainMail, are in Wired today. They’ve launched their secure e-mail app, Mithril, and re-branded it as Antivore. (Get it? The antidote to the FBI’s Carnivore?) These guys been working for ages on Antivore, and I gather it’s pretty damned incredible. They’ve released it as an open-source program, which is …
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So I’m beta testing Digimarc‘s new MediaBridge software. They sent me a little 3Com camera and everything. The good news? Free camera. The bad news? MediaBridge is totally lame. The idea is that you hook this camera up to your USB port and put it on your monitor. Then, when you see an ad in …
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I spent yesterday in Richmond (motto: “Armpit of Virginia”) at the morning’s sessions for the COPA Commission. The hearings are actually still going on today, for a total of a day and a half of testimony and eight panels. Because I have to work, I could only go for the first two panels, "Client Side …
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Just for kicks, I took an extremist position and replied to “Pitch Your Tent and Log On" (yeah, half of you know where this is going, don’t you?) explaining that individuals that bring their own technology (GPS, laptop, whatever) into the great outdoors aren’t missing out on anything. They’re just people that treat technologically- advanced …
I don’t speak Estonian, but it’s clear that I’m somebody’s hero. The acceptance standards don’t look too tough, and I know that I’ve certainly done nothing heroic, but it’s still nice. I don’t think that I’ve ever been considered a hero by anybody.
There’s an essay up at Freshmeat by David Burley from Marblehorse that’s a result of a comment that I made in response to a previous essay, Jacob Moorman’s "The Importance of Non-Developer Supporters in Free Software." Burley’s essay, "Inroads to Free Software Development," is about the challenges of non-developers getting involved with free software. Although …
I’m leavin’ the afternoon of the 7th on a much-needed vacation to Paris. Yay. My flight leaves Dulles at 7ish, but I’ll be at the airport way early. I want one of those seats by the fire exit, or maybe the bulkhead. The one where you have lots of legroom and you’re all by yourself. …
How random is this? It’s a mention of me, as best I can tell, in the Romanian version of Computerworld. Anybody read Romanian? I’ve found some other randomish links. One about the Forbes interview, and that’s also in Romanian (Scroll down ’til you see my name, and continue to see my name appear in the …
Wow, it looks like I haven’t touched my site for a while, based on the dates on here. But, in reality, I’ve just been updating my cphack page. Anyhow, I’ve got a mention and a little quote in Wired. It’s in Elisa Batista’s 2nd-ever article for Wired, "Vendors Overwhelmed by ‘Love’." (Top of the 2nd …
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