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Frustration.

February 26, 2000 by Michael Boyle

OK. I’m a bit frustrated with my ISP. They added a PPPoE thingie (aka Access Manager) as a requirement for Sympatico ADSL users. And the damn thing won’t let me submit forms if they contain more than a certain amount of text. Which means it doesn’t work well for editing this very site.

Tags: Bell

Heh!

February 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

I want a menu like this on my machine!
menu: I wish!

Tags: Personal

Privacy and pseudonymity

February 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Ian Goldberg published this paper in 1997. Fascinating – it lays the direction that ZKS has gone, up to and including the agreement with Brands this week.

Freedom:

February 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Freedom: Zero Knowledge Systems – I mentioned them earlier in the week – they are shipping software that pseudonymizes your travels online. Good idea. The real, “sticky” traffic on the web is social traffic, which can’t be pseudo. Hmmm.

Tags: Data Privacy

The trial:

February 25, 2000 by Michael Boyle

My old friend Dahlia’s been sitting in Washington covering the Microsoft Trial. That is, when she’s not sitting behind a post at the Supreme Court. Her latest dispatch about the MS Trial was published today.

Tags: Media

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