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I've finally managed to finish reading Code v2.0, by Lawrence Lessig. It took me quite longer since this summer i didn't have the possibility (and maybe the mood) of reading as much and as good as i wanted.
Anyway, since i particularly liked the book and found it really enlighten; firstly, i will write down some [...]

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The new EDRI-gram is out and, as usual, there's quite a bit of material that would be worth considering.Anyway, just to follow up on my previous post about anonymity and data-mining, the annual report from EDPS comes as quite representative of my concerns.
The EDPS is the European Data Protection Supervisors, which tries monitoring how national [...]

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As Lessig would put it "you can't regulate unless you don't know who is doing what and where".
That's why people loved the Internet since its early stages, and why governments somehow always watched its developments with suspicious. The main purpose of the Internet was to communicate with distant machine and thus its design was functional [...]

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Yesterday i went out for a beer with my girlfriend and some friends of her. At the Kaiserhalle pub we should have found other 2 guys, but by the time we arrived there, they weren't at the pub yet.
So we enjoyed the first drink talking and listening to noisy-not-so-nice-music, the time passed, and the [...]

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Yes! here is another post about Gutmann’s A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection review. After nearly one week this article got published on the ointernet you can see thousands of threads, forum diuscussion, online magazine reviews and lot more about it. This became a ‘Best-seller’ in pretty much short time sin’t it?
Well! I [...]

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