An excellent University of North Carolina video where Fred Stutzman discusses Facebook, Myspace, and social networks in general. The concepts of Social surveilance, weak vs. strong ties, and the effect of the “invisible audience”. The differences between social networks, and the effects of social networks on society in terms of privacy implications are discussed. Note: [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Video: Surveillance Privacy Protection
May 15th, 2009
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Computer scientist Samson Cheung of the University of Kentucky creates programs that can manipulate video surveillance all the way down to the pixel level. You can watch in this video how the technology exists to avoid intrusive CCTV from recording people who do not wish to be on camera. The only problem I see with [...]
Video: Off-the-Record Messaging, privacy for IM
May 8th, 2009
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Off-the-Record is an open source plugin to use with Pidgin, an instant messenger software compatible with IRC, MSN, SILC, ICQ, Yahoo! and lots of other chat software that come with no privacy measures whatsoever. Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing encryption, authentication, deniability and perfect forward secrecy. [...]
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