Category: usability
Jun
11
So what if you don't want the NSA to see a particular file or email? If they're really wiretapping the whole goddamn internet, how can you keep secrets?
Well, you have to encrypt them. And the standard for strong encryption is PGP -- [Pretty Good Pri… more »
Aug
21
A researcher at NIST recently gave me a rather unique business card, with Braille text embossed on the card!
Cool! This would be a great thing for those of us that work with people with visual disabilities.
One catch, though: OCR-reading softw… more »
Aug
01
The NTIA today [released notes from the first MSH meeting](http://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2012/homework-assignment-privacy-stakeholders) on consumer privacy today. However, I couldn't easily understand the format they reported [their data (PDF)](http://ww… more »
Jul
30
This is a rant; you may want to move on.
As part of my work, I interact regularly with a piece of software, ATLAS.ti, that permits various forms of qualitative data analysis. Think of a project where we may have 30 or so interview transcripts and we… more »
Jul
07
Stanford's crypto group has just released a neat piece of research: [Flash Proxies](https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/).
The idea is very cool: create a ton of censorship-circumvention nodes directly in web browsers and then coordinate traffic b… more »