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State of the art, 2006:

February 4, 2006 by Michael Boyle

State of the art, 2006:

Matt Haughey describes the difficulties he encountered when trying to give himself the ability to encrypt email: It’s the user experience, stupid. Very early on in my internet life I started using PGP and, as Haughey does, I periodically revisit the subject and assess how far things have progressed. As he reports, however, things haven’t progressed very far.

My most recent foray into encryption and such occurred a few weeks ago when I downloaded and tried the free GPG system. I found that not only could I not use my old key pair (though I still know my old password) but I couldn’t easily find out why, nor could I figure out a way to address the issue. So now there is a public key out there in the wild – a key of long standing and signed by several other people – with my name on it but with totally out-of-date email addresses attached to it and nothing I can do about that.

Tags: Encryption, Haughey, Usability

Matt Haughey:

August 31, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Matt Haughey:

UnFriendster. There are lots of reasons to quit Friendster, this latest one is simply the most recent good excuse to even take the time to bother.

Tags: Haughey, Social Networks

If you liked the plaintext

June 21, 2004 by Michael Boyle

If you liked the plaintext

version, you’re going to love it in hypertext: Cory Doctorow’s Microsoft Research DRM talk. Courtesy of Anil Dash, and Haughey did yet another version based on Dash’s, but even easier to read.

If you’ve noticed any critiques of this talk on the net, please let me know!

Tags: Anil Dash, DRM, Haughey, Microsoft

Matt Haughey

October 11, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Matt Haughey

: Copyright and the Commons. “If I die on my 75th birthday, you’ll be free to reuse the above image or this text in 2117.”

Tags: Haughey

Matt Haughey

August 19, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Matt Haughey

has written a nice up-to-the-moment summary of wireless local network security issues. The basic conclusion: there are security issues all over the pace, but there is no simple way to give yourself a truly secure net at this time.

Tags: Haughey, Security, Wireless

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