I follow John Chow, in part because he's a funny, smart guy and in part because I generally bump into him once a week at least at some Social Media Gabfest. Whatever else he is, he's a brilliant man.
He is absolutely the most unabashed capitalist you will ever meet, and that includes the entire staff and management of Haliburton. His "Black Hat Tips for Making Money Online" talk last year at WordCamp Fraser Valley was jaw-dropping. The tagline of his blog is "I make money online teaching people to make money online." And it's true.
It's kind of like watching Conrad Black...you can't help but be fascinated, even if you hate yourself for watching.
I'm surprised, actually, he put the (ad) on there. Most of the ads I get are either DM spam from people who are too dim to realize their accounts are compromised because they gave their password to "get your blog's birth sign" apps OR they're not identified as ads. Kudos to him for doing it, and no, it's not going to cost him any followers. His crowd just wants to know how they get that deal (kinda like Gawker reporting on Emily's book).
The NSA has a long history in advising to non-government security standards. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" notes that several of the fundamental constants of the DES algorithm were contributed by the NSA; they were viewed with some suspicion until many years later, when it was discovered that they made the algorithm suspiciously resilient in the face of a cryptanalytic attack that was not publicly known at the time of the standard's creation.
apart from the privacy aspects - and I have no doubt the collaboration did not enhance privacy - why does the government cooperate with some companies and not others? Why does the NSA get to choose which ventures to provide its expertise to? This is just the powerful helping the powerful, on our dime and at our expense.
Based on the 'takes one to know one' principle, I reckon the NSA should have had some important insight on maintaining privacy. Maybe they also collaborated with Microsoft in planting a few 'backdoors' for national security purposes...
If the `spawn of a former Yahoo CEO' demands of a bouncer "just fucking Google me, you dumb fuck" then the search wars are already lost, and Microsoft is like yesterday's cavalry.
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He is absolutely the most unabashed capitalist you will ever meet, and that includes the entire staff and management of Haliburton. His "Black Hat Tips for Making Money Online" talk last year at WordCamp Fraser Valley was jaw-dropping. The tagline of his blog is "I make money online teaching people to make money online." And it's true.
It's kind of like watching Conrad Black...you can't help but be fascinated, even if you hate yourself for watching.
I'm surprised, actually, he put the (ad) on there. Most of the ads I get are either DM spam from people who are too dim to realize their accounts are compromised because they gave their password to "get your blog's birth sign" apps OR they're not identified as ads. Kudos to him for doing it, and no, it's not going to cost him any followers. His crowd just wants to know how they get that deal (kinda like Gawker reporting on Emily's book).
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And the cycle continues...
11/22/09
Cognitive dissonance, ladies and gents!
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2. profts!!!!!
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#tips
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[johnchow.com]
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More recently, there was this: [en.wikipedia.org]
The purpose of this collaboration is unknown, but it is not new news.
11/20/09
Corps and end users really don't care where their data will end up -- at least our wonderful government *does*.
This evolutionary move just warms my blackened heart.
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[gawker.com]
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#BookDealsWeCanGetBehind
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