In honor of Julys resolution, “Focus on security,” Ive prepared this article on the basics of using encryption.
Encryption makes privacy a right that can be claimed rather than granted.
This article is a quick summary of basic encryption tools for protecting your data and your privacy. The goal is to raise awareness of these tools.
The dramatic nylon sculptures by Dutch artist Rosa Verloop are eerie and distorted representations of human heads and bodies. These three-dimensional bodies are held together by a series of pins and threads. The flesh tones of the nylons add a disturbing level of realism to these dysmorphic objects. Verloop is an artist based out of the Netherlands where she continues to create works that are both intriguing and at the same time grotesque.
via -| Foto-Jenn¡c |- – hifructosemag: Grotesque Nylon Sculptures by….
An estimated 10 million Britons still suck down cigarettes faster than a troupe of aging rockers in rehab straining to cough out another hit tune. In the UK, cigarette butts sully streets and parks everywhere. What if this nasty habit could contribute to, rather than subtract from, the beauty of outdoor spaces? Cigg Seeds aim to do precisely that. A variety of smokes outfitted with biodegradable filters that contain wild flower seeds, they sprout and blossom into wildflower meadows when finished and flicked, or deposited on the ground. Butts into blooms. Cigarettes into snowdrops—the floral not frozen variety, to be sure.
via -| Foto-Jenn¡c |- – sketchlynx: moshita: Cigg Seeds An estimated….
Until very recently the country’s incarcerated were still living in a world of Walkmans, radios, and cassette tapes. But finally, things are changing. SPIN goes behind bars to investigate how music makes its way inside prisons, who puts it there, and what it means to inmates.
via Captive Audience: The Music Business in America’s Prisons | SPIN.
Jake Evill is hoping that someday 3D printed casts will replace the bulky, stinky plaster casts we are all familiar with. De Zeen shares the story…
A patient would have the bones x-rayed and the outside of the limb 3D-scanned. Computer software would then determine the optimum bespoke shape, with denser support focussed around the fracture itself.
Below, you can find a list of some of the key revelations along with an analysis of the current status of each—including claims, counterclaims, and everything in between. We will update this page with the latest in order to keep as comprehensive a record as possible. If there are any particular details we’ve missed that you think are worth inclusion, please add suggestions in the comments.
via Edward Snowden fact-checking: Which surveillance claims were right?.
[Because SCIENCE. -egg]
[More unsettling NSA leaks.]
The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
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“The calls you make can reveal a lot, but now that so much of our lives are mediated by the internet, your IP [internet protocol] logs are really a real-time map of your brain: what are you reading about, what are you curious about, what personal ad are you responding to (with a dedicated email linked to that specific ad), what online discussions are you participating in, and how often?” said Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute.
“Seeing your IP logs – and especially feeding them through sophisticated analytic tools – is a way of getting inside your head that’s in many ways on par with reading your diary,” Sanchez added.
via NSA collected Americans’ email records in bulk for two years under Obama.
Jace Clayton (aka DJ/Rupture) talking about “inexpensive time-travel devices and how the future might not exist.”
[There’s stuff I disagree with here, and a certain amount of weaseling, but it’s a really interesting read, especially the final section. -egg]
In virtually every realm of human existence, we turn to technology to help us solve our problems. But even in Silicon Valley, when it comes to food and obesity, technology—or at least food-processing technology—is widely treated as if it is the problem. The solution, from this viewpoint, necessarily involves turning our back on it.
If the most-influential voices in our food culture today get their way, we will achieve a genuine food revolution. Too bad it would be one tailored to the dubious health fantasies of a small, elite minority. And too bad it would largely exclude the obese masses, who would continue to sicken and die early. Despite the best efforts of a small army of wholesome-food heroes, there is no reasonable scenario under which these foods could become cheap and plentiful enough to serve as the core diet for most of the obese population—even in the unlikely case that your typical junk-food eater would be willing and able to break lifelong habits to embrace kale and yellow beets. And many of the dishes glorified by the wholesome-food movement are, in any case, as caloric and obesogenic as anything served in a Burger King.
via How Junk Food Can End Obesity – David H. Freedman – The Atlantic.