ChadKing.com Archives: May 2004
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21 May 2004
When the Web Bugs Bite
Remember back in 2000 when Web bugs were labeled as the next big threat to online privacy? After a brief media stampede covering the topic and the release of Web bug detecting software by a privacy group, the topic all but disappeared from the news.That is, until recently.
Today Jan Ireland published an article where [...]
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18 May 2004
Night of the Living RFID
RFID tags have been getting a bad rap recently because of the fear that they will be used by retailers to secretly track consumers. But it might not be the retailers doing the tracking.
The manufacturing and retail industries are evaluating several RFID technologies, including a zombie tag that can be turned on and off. It [...]
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17 May 2004
Safire on Privacy
For anyone interested in privacy, William Safire’s op-ed piece in the New York Times is worth reading.
Safire’s article addresses a report entitled “Safeguarding Privacy in the Fight Against Terrorism.” This report was created at Donald Rumsfeld’s request by a committee called TAPAC, comprised of Floyd Abrams, Zoe Baird, Griffin Bell, Gerhard Casper, William Coleman, [...]
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10 May 2004
Redacted Redux
The New York Times is reporting on new software that can be used to identify blacked-out words in confidential documents. The software takes the redacted document, realigns it, and then processes it through a series of filters based on, among other things, word size and semantics. The process works best with monospace fonts such as [...]
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3 May 2004
This Email is Confidential Communication . . .
Who controls an email after you send it to me?
(a) you (the sender)?
(b) me (the recipient)?
In most cases, the answer is (b) me (the recipient). If I receive an email, I can read it, delete it, forward it, or even quote it in a blog. I can print it and post it on [...]
