The following is an email I sent to my father who recently read this piece at The Atlantic (The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC’s New Approach to Privacy), which is all about Professor Helen Nissenbaum’s idea that the privacy of information is all a matter of context and breaches of privacy are [...]
Since the beginning of this Freedom Box series back in March, I’ve talked a lot about infrastructure and very little about what the interface is actually going to look like. I saved this portion for last because Interfaces can be very complicated and hard to get right but also because this is one of the [...]
My new Guruplug, the second generation of that plug computer Eben and I keep talking about, just made it to me. Here are the two of them side by side. The guru plug is the smaller black one. The Guruplug is an upgrade from the original Sheevaplug development kit in pretty much all respects. It [...]
I had planned to spend this post performing an impossible task; I was going to tell you how to put together the freedom box out of existing parts. As recent discussions have shown, there are as many ways of building these tools as there are people who want to build them. Instead of trying to [...]
In response to Luis’s post from yesterday. Suggestions for the diaspora developers. Build less. What we need is a tool for making connections with other people and a social firewall to manage what parts of the information you put in the system get sent to which people you know. These are the pieces that hold [...]