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Deploying surveillance countermeasures on the web?

The open web depends on my ability to have a permanent address. However, my privacy depends on my ability to hide who I am. At least sometimes.

Margaret Lord: “Oh, dear. Is there no such thing as privacy any more?” Tracy Lord: “Only in bed, mother, and not always there.” The Philadelphia Story, 1940 Over the summer I wrote a post lamenting IPv4 address scarcity and how it contributed to a deformed and centralized web, one that is substantially less open than the one we started with….
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RIM pursues consumers and "web harmony"

RIM pursues consumers and "web harmony"

Jim Balsillie on Research In Motion's app and tablet strategy, and why a mobile OS isn't a selling point.

Times are changing for Research in Motion as mobile competitors make headway in the enterprise and RIM expands with consumer and tablet offerings. Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM and a speaker at Web 2.0 Summit, discusses RIM's strategies for the shifting mobile world in this Q&A.

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