Your hard drive on Google's servers. Google Desktop is now storing your hard drive data on Google's servers. LiB's recommendation? Use Copernic instead if you're dying for a good desktop search. It works better, is easier to use, and doesn't harvest the ba-jeebers out of your data. [LibrarianInBlack]

The Use and Abuse of Secrecy Here's a great example from a lecture by a former agent (this is real life experience as opposed to the crap spin you get on so many political blogs): The Administration’s ignoring of the law in the case of wiretapping is but one part of what I see as… Continue reading The Use and Abuse of Secrecy

Windows Access Control. I just found an interesting paper: “Windows Access Control Demystified,” by Sudhakar Govindavajhala and Andrew W. Appel. Basically, they show that companies like Adobe, Macromedia, etc., have mistakes in their Access Control Programming that open security holes in Windows XP. Abstract In the Secure Internet Programming laboratory at Princeton University, we have… Continue reading Windows Access Control

Categories and the short head. Zipf's Law tells us that something that ranks #1 in a category often sells 100 times as well as the item ranked #100. Human nature makes that likely–we want to read the most popular book, hire the most successful… [Seth's Blog]

Adam & Eve. Adam & Eve: I'm linking to some Adobe tech you may not know about, at opensource.adobe.com… “Eve” is a layout engine used within Adobe application development, and “Adam” is an interactivity engine to make things happen when you press buttons. … [JD on EP]

The voices of a failed government Meet the Press discusses the NSA program to spy on Americans. How overweening pretensions of the value of secrecy undermined protection of the Constitution. Listen to the entire thing, it's very depressing…. We are ruled by a bunch of idiots.  [John Robb's Weblog]

Notes and Tips: iMac Core Duo Tests. “I never expected the increase in speed to be so substantial.” [MacInTouch]

Big Snowstorm Sets Record in New York and Disrupts Travel. The storm dropped a record amount of snow in Central Park, closing the region's three major airports and paralyzing traffic. By CHRISTINE HAUSER. [NYT > Home Page]

Digital Domain: Trying to Get a Read on Amazon's Books. Talk to analysts who cover the Internet, and one company stands out as the least forthcoming, most furtive, least transparent and most difficult to work with — and it isn't Google. By RANDALL STROSS. [NYT > Technology]

The Buzz on DNSSECbis. In a recent posting, I considered the prospects for DNSSEC's adoption. Well, instead of just thinking about what might happen, I figured I should take a look at the current situation. I had the pleasure of spending several days with the new DNSSECbis command-line tools in BIND 9.3.2 a couple of… Continue reading The Buzz on DNSSECbis