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Fingertips
From today’s Austin American Statesman, this article discusses the fraud deterrent effect of fingerprinting applicants for food stamps, and if it is worth the delay it may be causing in processing (Department of Agriculture says it isn’t).There are lessons to … Continue reading
Releative Position and Privacy
Ed Felton recently wrote two posts on the failure of the marketability of privacy, and how corporations and consumers should respond. According to Felton: There’s an obvious market failure here. If we postulate that at least some customers want to … Continue reading
Confusion In My Eyes That Says It All
I figured I’d wait until after my paternity leave was over before I started thinking seriously about words like “control” and “compliance,” but I felt the need to say something after reading Bejtlich’s post “Controls are Not the Solution to … Continue reading
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Compliance for Road and Track
My Alfa, a 72 GTV coupe, like all GTVs of its approximate vintage, has a recessed panel in the headliner over the back seats. It has proven to be a mystery to passengers in the car, looking like the cruelest … Continue reading
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Half Baked
What follows are annoying thoughts that have been ground to meaningless gravel in my head for the past month or so. As soon as I think them through, and dismiss them, my brain belches them back up. Committing them to … Continue reading
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The Easy No
From Concurring Opinions, this commentary on a recent New York Times article on Hypercompliance on the HIPAA front. Health care folks have been intimidated into denying access to PHI to people who have legitimate inquiries and a legal right to … Continue reading
New Concepts in Data, Compliance and Marketing or The Overly Dramatic Truth
Like the rest of the world, I read J. Cline’s article on the upcoming data eclipse while listening to El P’s I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, which is the best way to read it. J. Cline is prophesyin’ the impending … Continue reading
Vulnerabilty v. Threat
Jeremiah Grossman’s analysis of the MSNBC stock contest cheat. It seems to me that this sort of flaw would rise to the surface quickly from a threat perspective, but slower from a vulnerability perspective. I’m not sure why though.
Everyday Privacy & Security Part 2: Fear Factor Authentication, or I Won’t Forget You Baby, Even Though I Should
If you are like me, or, if in fact, you are me, your online financial transacting experience has gone all Security 2.0 by the factor of WOW! Over the weekend, I had an unpleasant experience. The clerk at our local … Continue reading
Invincible
New York Magazine article “The Young Invincibles: A Generation Uninsured” discusses the way uninsured 20-30 year olds in New York deal with health risks (link and commentary from Concurring Opinions.) The article is interesting study of people who do not … Continue reading
The One In Five 