Gordon's Notes

We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...

Yahoo! has been an excellent spam-mail service. I use my Yahoo email whenever I want to avoid spam — such as when I have to deal with Ticket...

Facebook Reasserts Posts Can Be Used to Advertise . So if I click "Like" on a new offering by Encyclopedia Britannica, my Facebook...

Evernote was hacked , and they mandated a global password reset. It's not surprising Evernote was hacked. As Schneier wrote a few days ...

Yes, it happens. We die . Short of death, we can be lost in the wilderness, imprisoned by whackos, captured by space aliens, comatose, or  g...

Mat Honan, who is making a career out of being hacked, has a solid profile of a juvenile delinquent hacker [1] -  "Derek", alias C...

Matt Honan was thoroughly hacked, including having his iCloud link computers obliterated [1], because our net security infrastructure is com...

I don't think we'll actually get to DRM  RetinaLock (retinal enhancements enforce video DRM), but we are pretty much at the "P...

Just three years ago Facebook's Gordon's Evil Score was 12, and Google was a mere 6. Today, 3 months after Google's day of infa...

FuturePundit: 2005 Seen As Oil Supply Tipping Point : Commentary in Nature: Can economy bear what oil prices have in store? Stop wranglin...

Memory is just a story we believe . I remember that when I was on a city bus, and so perhaps 8 years old, a friend showed me a "librar...

Setting aside the act of mass datacide that moved Google up my corporate evil scale , G+ suffers from a fundamental Circle problem. It may ...

Google is trying to enforce full transparency in their, large, corner of the web. I think they're making a terrible mistake. I can see ...

Google + requires us to use our "true name". In may case John F, not "John Gordon" or any of my other aliases. Charlie ...

With the help of a few friends, I somehow slipped through this narrow window into Google Plus ( my G+ profile , which has lost its vanity UR...

Places .app is one of Google's newer iPhone "social" apps. This is what you see if you try to sign in with a Google 2-step ver...

For a non-expert, I do a fair bit of ruminating about the relationships between identities , credentials , and avatars/facets . Today a  bug...

Yesterday we learned  Gawker was hacked . I got this message today ... We have recently disabled your account for security reasons. To res...

I got my email from Gawker today ... the user name and password associated with your comment account were released on the internet... Ga...

There's a rumor that Google is going to acquire  Groupon for a zillion dollars. I signed up to see what it was about. Naturally I used...