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Matthew Green
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Really obvious but remarkable observation: this whole messaging space that Facebook is eating (and making a fortune on) could have been owned by the telcos, but they just wanted to charge people per text.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m sure the telcos were also happy to mine those messages for data. They just wanted to charge for it first, and in the process lost the business.
Also, it’s only a matter of time before some bright spark begins mining the telco datafeeds to extract the same transaction graphs that Facebook plans to monetize, HTTPS or no. Unless it’s explicitly illegal to do that.
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There seem to be a bunch of projects where researchers solved the problem of “make a working software exploit that satisfies these specific constraints.” Seems like it would be more valuable to solve this problem more generally. wired.com/story/malware-…
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If you didn’t have a problem with Apple’s walled garden yesterday, you probably shouldn’t be worried about it today.
Which is to say: I’m not going to defend Apple’s closed system on principle. But I question the notion that *the time to get really upset about it* is after they use their power to drop a house on top of the wicked witch.
With apologies to all witches for comparing you to Facebook.
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I’m shocked, *shocked* to find out that gambling has been happening here. rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
Remember when we had that big national conversation in which we all agreed that the consequence for expressing interest in your genealogy was to have yourself and all your relatives entered into a national police DNA database? I don’t either.
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