Geek Drivel

I’m usually an all-out pro-technology guy, but I agree with this completely: no e-voting until it’s provably (and checkably!) secure against fraud. There are too many people who would see the ends (the election of their chosen candidates) as justifying the means (tampering with the voting system) — you’ve got to make it as hard [...]

I’m very security- and privacy-conscious, so it came as something of a shock to read (on LifeHacker) about a kind of cookie file that I didn’t know existed. I picked up the Objection extension and took a look… there were files from all sorts of places, going back years. I am not happy about this, [...]