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This reminds me of "the most popular reddit ad ever" the "Magic Internet Money" MS Paint wizard. https://medium.com/@paulbars/magic-internet-money-how-a-redd...

Does this dispute imply that Apple backdoors its own iMessage end-to-end encryption on states' request?

College is running an ad campaign, one of your co-workers saw it (consciously or unconsciously) earlier in the day, and that is what lead to the college coming up in conversation?

Are the founders hoping for additional kitten games? It seems that the game art is protected by copyright and trademark. And the breeding game itself is possibly covered by a paten…

This is a cool scheme to address the problem of URL-impermanance due to the fact that DNS name ownership/control can change over time. It allows you to specify a URL plus a date. I…

I thought this was an excellent reading of Tim Cook's letter: "Apple is signaling to us that the real problem here is the use of the All Writs Act."

Interesting to think about for sure. Facebook's algorithmic solution seems to be that to the extent that any post is a true draw to Facebook, that post will get more likes and ther…

Yeah, getting the main feed right is a general issue for Facebook. If someone really wants to know about a few bands in particular, liking some of their posts will cause more of th…

"Then you suddenly changed the way Posts are seen by people who have already followed a musician’s page to the net effect that an average post is seen by a tiny fraction of the peo…

And it's pants all the way down! Can we even trust our chips? But we stagger on.

This song made its biggest splash three years ago on Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2009/12/17/gibberish-rock-song.html (Google trends graph http://www.google.com/trends/explor…

I would think it's that SMS and telephone features don't map well to multiple users. Would you share them across accounts or block them for all but one user? It's just weird.

"Of course, it's not handcrafted" LOL

Textie Messaging on iOS and Android is all SSL and doesn't scrape your address book. It can also text with people that don't have Textie by sending free SMS or email.

Unfortunately, there's no way to differentiate between an app using the address book locally and an app uploading the address book to its servers. Both actions require the same per…

Is this an argument that future web services may depend more heavily on identity/reputation services?

It would be sweet for trusted computing if developers were able to submit source directly to an app store for the app store to compile, sign, and make available along with the bina…

While the security of the hash itself can be a concern, the technique is always valuable: 1. In particular, the domain of email addresses is less vulnerable to rainbow tables than …

I would recommend sending hashed canonical values like we do in Textie. I posted this explanation for our users and anyone interested: http://blog.textie.me/post/17261989750/keepin…

I agree that some prominent privacy statements would be very helpful given that the target audience hates being targeted for junk mail.

I wrote this post. We have opt-in, hash-based address book comparison working in a fairly popular consumer app, if anyone is interested in sharing experiences. I recommend it as th…

Phone numbers are easy to canonicalize: convert to international form. Email addresses can be effectively canonicalized by lower casing. Not many mail servers are case sensitive th…