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Spying the Google Store View

By Gordon Davidescu on February 8, 2010 7:37 AM | 2 Comments

We already know that Google is a master at peeping at us. I'm not all that bothered about Google having their street teams out and about if it means that it will be easier for me to find my way to the Nederlander theater. I feel a little odd, if it is a true report, about the idea of Google entering stores and allowing people to virtually walk around them.

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I Am Not Who You Think I Am

By Gordon Davidescu on February 1, 2010 8:36 AM | 4 Comments

I have had my Gmail account for nearly six years now -- thanks to an early invitation from master publisher David Boles. I chose the username "gordond" because I wanted to see if it was available. For many years I only chose the username 'gdavides' based on the assigned username I got at Peddie -- it was based on the first letter of my first name and the following seven letters of my last name.

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The Innocent Intended: Violating Your Email Address

By David W. Boles on January 27, 2010 9:14 AM | 6 Comments

Every single day someone somewhere is violating your email privacy. The violators might not even intend on penetrating your cone of silence, but their carelessness can lead to no other end than virtually bleeding you out. You might think your email address is secure, but if someone has access to your private information and then includes those personal markers in a misdirected email intended for you, but sent to someone else -- any sense of security you have worked to protect is inherently broken.

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Peeping by Business Card

By Gordon Davidescu on January 14, 2010 9:40 AM | 2 Comments

We already know that there are cameras all around us. You are hardly ever private when you use social networking sites. You know about how your criminal past may easily come back to haunt you. But did you know that dropping a seemingly harmless slip of paper could also open a door to destroy your privacy?

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Memory Runoff Review

By David W. Boles on December 9, 2009 8:40 AM | 4 Comments

To live is to remember; and how we choose to consecrate our memories is what gives texture and context to our lives as the Panopticon becomes public. Google is good at creating the instant now for future recall, but The Wayback Machine is the granddaddy of soliciting who used to be. Today we have -- Memento -- a new contender for scrapbooking our online lives. So who is the king of our remembering? Wayback or Memento?

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The War Prezzy

By David W. Boles on December 2, 2009 9:14 AM | 4 Comments

Last night, President Obama told the world he was taking over where Dubya left off and was becoming the new War Prezzy.

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Defrauding the Federal Video Relay Service

By David W. Boles on November 20, 2009 2:03 PM | 6 Comments

The disabled are always ripe for the raping and the ripping off and when the news hit the street today in New York City that big players at DHIS -- Deaf and Hearing Impaired Services -- were under Federal indictment for defrauding the FCC's Video Relay Service Program, hands and heads were shaking everywhere as the Panopticonic Gaze of the Federal government rightly blinked to stop a taxpayer rip off.

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Watching Those Watching Us

Spying the Google Store View

I Am Not Who You Think I Am

The Innocent Intended: Violating Your Email Address

Peeping by Business Card

Memory Runoff Review

The War Prezzy

Defrauding the Federal Video Relay Service

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