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No Safe Harbor: how one court ruling has blown data protection apart

Will Europe now force the US to swallow its data protection laws? Look to Dickens for his opinion.

October 7, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

A lesson in control systems from the online social lab

Because social media only have tools of approval, these set up positive feedback loops, which amplify the bad.

August 13, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Let me in: authentication and authorisation

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Access controls require confirmation of who you are, and verification that you are permitted to use the system or services.

July 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

Thank and be RESTful: how Twitter, Facebook, and many other apps work

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Almost every app that you run – under OS X or iOS – which communicates with a remote web server will use RESTful APIs somewhere along the line.

June 19, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Bully Off

All too commonly those who should square up to bullies fail to do so.

June 17, 2015 General, Life, Macs

Going viral: fame or doom

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There is already a substantial queue of organisations waiting to know how to create intensely viral events, and how to control them.

June 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Popular vote or social engineering

Even the least money-motivated of us become tempted to play to the gallery, and their view statistics.

June 5, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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