Category: Link posts

This week I highly recommend reading the piece by danah boyd about the nature of information in the current era..

• 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook by Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein
• The Fragmentation of Truth by danah boyd
• Defending Democracies Against Information Attacks by Bruce Schneier and Henry Farrell
• The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities by Kelsey Ables

This week, I recommend reading the Galaxy S10+ review by Ron Amadeo to get an idea of what these expensive smartphones actually offer to their customers vs. what they purport to offer via their advertising/marketing campaigns.

• Galaxy S10+ review: Too many compromises for the sky-high price by Ron Amadeo
• ‘Exhibit C’ Is Almost 10 Years Old. Jay Electronica Has Completely Squandered His Career by Dustin J. Seibert
• Improving the availability and resilience of the root zone in the DNS by Geoff Huston
• The Incredible, Intoxicating Potential of Star Trek: Discovery’s Third Season by James Whitbrook

This week I recommend the NYT piece about Google tracking phones.

• Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords by Dan Goodin
  • [PDF] Dragonblood: A Security Analysis of WPA3’s SAE Handshake
• Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
• All EFF’d Up by Yasha Levine
• Review: Beyoncé Is Bigger Than Coachella by Jon Caramanica

 

This week I recommend the piece about VPNs by Dennis Schubert.

• VPN – a Very Precarious Narrative by Dennis Schubert
• How Does Spotify Know You So Well? by Sophia Ciocca
• YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant by Mark Bergen
• What Toronto Learned By Giving Its Streetcar Its Own Lane by Angie Schmitt

This week we got a lot of very good articles for reading. If you had to pick one to read it would be the piece about the 737 MAX flight control system by Dominic Gates.

• The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives by Miriam Posner
• Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system by Dominic Gates
• Weapons of War: The Defiant class by Starship Critic
• Texting Means Never Having to Say Goodbye by Jane C. Hu
• On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness by Soraya Roberts
• How BioWare’s Anthem Went Wrong by Jason Schreier