This Wired News article features a frightening interview with the owners of a privacy-threatening search engine Zaba Search [I'm not going to encourage its use by providing a link]. Zaba Search allows users to uncover an individual's personal information -…
Day: May 9, 2005
Schneier on Real ID
For those concerned or otherwise interested in the REAL ID Act, which establishes uniform standards for state driver's licenses, effectively creating a national ID card, you must read Bruce Schneier's thought-provoking analysis. Highlights include:It's a bad idea, and is going…
NYT on Grokker
Today's New York Times article "Your Internet Search Results, in the Round" features Grokker, the graphical search engine interface that presents results in a spatial map.Currently, the major search engines have all limited displays to ranked lists of sites. The…
Eliminating Folders: Progress or Hindrance?
Insdie Google points to Lee Gomes's article "Folders That Now Seem So Yesterday May Be Very Handy Tomorrow" in today's The Wall Street Journal arguing that Google and others, revolutionizing individual computing by eliminating folders, are actually making things less…
Google Web Accelerator Privacy Problem Confirmed
Brad Hill reports that Google has reportedly confirmed the privacy concern that GWA enables the displaying of private pages that were cached by another GWA user. This might also better explain why Google has stopped allowing users to download GWA.…
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