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You would be well-advised to read this company's Privacy Policy, especially sections 6-9. It is a wonder they can use the term "Complete privacy" in their website copy without any …

Have you considered rysnc? Dropbox uses it. So lots of people who don't even know what rsync is are now using it. We could all be using it for much more than just Dropbox. And if y…

Interesting how "private" is in quotes. Maybe tech journalists, perhaps even their readers, are getting smarter. So with this app you are letting one company, Everyme, collect and …

4. Provide a compressed archive of the data the scrapers want and make it available. No one should have to scrape in the first place. It's not 1993 anymore. Sites want Google and o…

Are they blocking by IP or just DNS? Are you guys typing just domain names, or are you trying the IP addresses too? Add a line to your HOSTS file and see what happens: 74.113.233.1…

If you want some interesting precedent, do some research on "Internet2" and the testimony of the RIAA to legislators. Do you know what a LAN is? It is an evil invention to share co…

"I think the main technical issue is probably the fact that most people are NATed." It's really not much of an issue as long as at least one peer has a reachable IP. I sometimes wo…

Isn't this the crux of infamous "ad hominem" argument: attacking the person instead of their reasoning? Even smart people sometimes make stupid arguments. And good arguments can be…

All due respect to Google, but I give primary credit for this to Danny Hillis. He was gathering and processing the data for this project years before going public with it and befor…

The answer is yes. There are multiple (non-VPN) ways to do it, all variations on a common theme. It's been done, multiple times over the past 10 years. But not much effort has gone…

lol. I hear ya. (But I think Google and Facebook's data are qualitatively a bit different.) It's anyone's guess whether this online privacy stuff really means anything to most peop…

Right. But if you only ever write and rarely ever read your writing will not be as good. Reading is essential to good writing. The quote you use is encouraging the reader to write,…

"Facebook can now use data on users to serve them ads when they are not on the Facebook website." "This could generate billions." Or it could prime even more users for a privacy-re…

This seems easily doable without involving a third party that needs to keep a record of every file sent, the time and the sender and recipient. But at least this is a step in the r…

23andMe has some very close connections to Google. An affinity for collecting personal information on others runs in the family. ;)

It just goes to show that you do not need great knowledge of programming to launch a business that relies on it. The founders of Bloomberg LP all had very good knowledge of the fin…

The way you learn to write well is by reading. And of course it makes a difference what you read. Learning how to do anything well takes practice. But you will not become a good wr…

Maybe the thought of people who do know how to communicate, such as Mayor Bloomberg, learning to code is bothersome to Jeff Atwood. If so, consider why. My concern is that Bloomber…