Luckily the AT interface is well documented, so it was just a matter of writing a teensy sketch that could read the open-collector clocked data and turn it into USB HID messages. The commands to the keyboard to set the LEDs work, but seem slightly flaky.

This specification describes how DNS SRV records, DNS TXT records, and well-known URIs can be used together or separately to locate CalDAV (Calendaring Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)) or CardDAV (vCard Extensions to WebDAV) services.

This page is the authorative specification of the config file that the Mozilla ISPDB and config services at ISPs return.

It is XML, with a clearly defined format, to be stable and usable by other mail clients, too. Update Aug 2010: In fact, Evolution and KMail and Kontact now use it, too.

Please do not submit or serve any configurations without SSL! There's no reason in 2010 why users still need to read mail entirely unprotected.
If you are an ISP and think the server load is too high, try adding an SSL accelerator. They are cheap and widely used. In fact, even most freemail (!) providers these days support SSL, so if users pay you money for ISP service, that's all the more reason to give them proper service. But first simply try to enable software SSL - small servers may be fine with SSL and without any additional installations.

Thunderbird 3.1 and later (and 3.0 to some degree) includes mail account autoconfiguration functionality. The goal of autoconfiguration is to make it very easy for users to configure the connection of Thunderbird to their email servers. In many cases, people should be able to download and install Thunderbird, enter their real name, email address and password in the Account Setup Wizard and have a fully functioning mail client and get and send their mail as securely as possible.

The constant recombination of worn-out elements. Companies that make useless products to help other companies make useless products that help other companies make useless products. There are start-ups that spend tens of thousands on names and branding before they even come up with a product or see if anyone might want it. This is called innovation, but what it actually represents is a culture that piles up the garbled detritus of the old in lieu of creating anything new, and a morbid economic order drowning in its own surplus liquidity and willing to invest in any bubble that comes along….

Publicly accessible databases are an indispensable resource for retrieving up to date infor- mation. But they also pose a significant risk to the privacy of the user, since a curious database operator can follow the user’s queries and infer what the user is after. Indeed, in cases where the users’ intentions are to be kept secret, users are often cautious about accessing the database. It can be shown that when accessing a single database, to completely guarantee the privacy of the user, the whole database should be down-loaded; namely n bits should be communicated (where n is the number of bits in the database). In this work, we investigate whether by replicating the database, more efficient solutions to the private retrieval problem can be obtained. We describe schemes that enable a user to access k replicated copies of a database ( k ≥ 2) and privately retrieve information stored in the database. This means that each individual server (holding a replicated copy of the database) gets no information on the identity of the item retrieved by the user. Our schemes use the replication to gain substantial saving. In particular, we present a two-server scheme with communication complexity O ( n 1 / 3).

This paper provides a short survey on transparency tools for
privacy purposes. It defines the term transparency tools, argues why they
are important and gives examples for transparency tools. A classification
of transparency tools is suggested and some example tools are analyzed
with the help of the classification

Die Arbeit mit Schutzzielen hat sich grundsätzlich bewährt. Sie sind so formuliert, dass sie
die Anforderungen an technische und organisatorische Systeme sowohl abstrakt über

blickbar als auch in Form von Maßnahmen hinreichend konkret faßbar machen. Der
Beitrag empfiehlt, sie in Datenschutzgesetze und Verträge aufzunehmen, als Leitlinien für
den Entwurf und Betrieb von IT-Infrastrukturen heranzuziehen und in Mechanismen
transformiert als WebService-Policies auszudrücken – und unterbreitet einen
Strukturierungsvorschlag.

Kontrolle durch die Nutzenden beim Verwalten ihrer
digitalen Identitäten
Die Nutzenden sollen so detailliert wie möglich ste
uern können, wem sie welche Daten
unter welchen Bedingungen herausgeben. Das kann je
nach Kommunikationspartner
völlig unterschiedlich sein. Im Arbeitskontext verh
alten sich Nutzende beispielsweise
meist anders als in ihrer Freizeit. Bedingung ist e
in hohes Maß an Transparenz in Bezug
auf die personenbezogenen Daten und ihre Verarbeitu
ng. Wenn Nutzende keine
Wahlmöglichkeiten haben (z.B. in vielen E-Governmen
t-Prozessen, in denen gesetzlich
vorgegeben ist, welche Daten zu nennen sind), solle
n sie zumindest wissen können, was
mit ihren Daten geschieht. Einige nutzergesteuerte
Identitätsmanagementansätze
unterstützen die nötige Transparenz wesentlich, ind
em transaktionsbezogen protokolliert
wird, welche Daten herausgegeben wurden. Diese Prot
okollierung ermöglicht den
Nutzenden ein späteres Nachvollziehen, wem sie was
unter welchen Bedingungen
offenbart haben. Auch Datenschutzerklärungen einer
datenverarbeitenden Stelle lassen
sich hier mitspeichern.
Separierung unterschiedlicher Bereiche
Die Datensparsamkeit wird auch unterstützt durch di
e Separierung von Kontexten, d.h.
die Trennung von Daten in verschiedenen Domänen. Zi
el ist die Kontrolle einer
möglichen Verkettung von Informationen über verschi
edene Bereiche hinweg. Das
Grundkonzept wurde bereits Mitte der 1990er Jahre v
on John Borking im Rahmen des
von ihn skizzierten
„Identity Protectors“ vorgeschlagen (Borking, 1996;
Hes/Borking, 1998): Logisch
trennbare Bereiche werden auch technisch separiert,
z.B. indem Kennungen und
Identifikatoren nicht mit globaler Gültigkeit (und
globaler Verkettbarkeit) verwendet
werden, sondern unterschiedliche Bezeichner pro Ber
eich eingesetzt werden. Diese
Bereiche kann man als verschiedene „Pseudonym Domai
ns“ (ULD/SNG, 2003)
verstehen, in denen Bezeichner („Pseudonyme“ im all
gemeinen Sinn) lokale Gültigkeit
haben. Sie können Schnittstellen zueinander haben,
an denen in vordefinierten Fällen
Bezeichner durch technische oder organisatorische M
aßnahmen umgerechnet werden
können. Auf diese Weise lassen sich Workflows gener
ell daraufhin analysieren, wo sich
Aufgabenbereiche und zugehörige personenbezogene Da
ten voneinander abgrenzen
lassen.

At the present time, an individual is required to reveal his identity when engaging in a wide range
of activities. Every time he uses a credit card, makes a telephone call, pays his taxes, subscribes to a
magazine, or buys something at the grocery store using a credit or debit card, an identifiable record
of each transaction is created and recorded in a computer database somewhere. In order to obtain a
service or make a purchase (using something other than cash), organizations require that you
identify yourself. This practice is so strong that it is simply treated as a given, an individual’s
identity must be collected and recorded in association with services rendered or purchases made.
But must this always be the case? Are there no situations where transactions may be conducted
anonymously, yet securely? We believe that there are, and will outline a number of methods and
technologies by which anonymous yet authentic transactions may be conducted.

The open-source Shibboleth System extends Web-based applications and identity
management for secure access to resources among multiple organizations

As a legal concept, privacy is defined rather vaguely. That vagueness, some argue, is part of its protective function. The open-ended definition allows people to invoke privacy as a category to protect their personal lives and autonomy from intrusions by others—including the state that endows them with citizenship rights and runs surveillance programs. European Data Protection Directive (DPD) or Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs) on the other hand are procedural measures, such as notice and choice, data retention limitation, and subject access rights. These principles are seen to be instrumental to making the collection and processing activities of organizations transparent. Although less ambiguous, data protection principles still need to be translated into technical requirements and are vulnerable to narrow interpretations. Moreover, FIPPs fall short of mitigating all the privacy concerns of users toward a given organization. They also do not address privacy concerns users may have with respect to other users, with people in their social environments, and toward a greater public.

Neal Stephenson – legendary author of speculative fiction – on Elon Musk and geek culture, the NSA revelations of Edward Snowden, how negative cultural narratives are killing big science – and the upbringing that made him the writer he is.

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