Tolle Sendung des philosophischen Radios über Themen wie “Die Glücksmaschine”, “Das Gehirn im Glas” oder “Der Geist im Smartphone”.
Die Drecks-Nordkoreaner!
Durfte letztens Hagen Rether auch live bewundern. Einfach gut der Mann!
Schweig, Verräter! | ARTE
Sehr empfehlenswerte Doku:
Whistleblower packen aus. Nicht über die brisanten Geheimdienstinformationen, die sie öffentlich machten, sondern über ihr Schicksal als “Verräter” und angeklagte Straftäter. Weil sie die Wahrheit sagten, stehen sie nun am Pranger. In ihrer Geschichte spiegelt sich das Bild einer panischen politischen Praxis der USA im Kampf gegen den internationalen Terror.
Paul Bostaph has a pretty nice YouTube channel. Well, if you’re into drumming and/or Slayer, anyway.
This is “Alter of Sacrifice” and “Jesus Saves”.
martingommel.tumblr.com
Today I left my film cameras at home, grabbed my 5D and went to a refugee camp in my home town.
I’ve been chewing on this topic for a long time, but I never had the guts to do it. But today I made a choice.
My hero!
Vienna | A Photomag by Severin Koller
Very interesting…
Sascha Lobo verdammt Angela Merkels Digitalpolitik - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Man sollte grundsätzlich Sascha Lobos Kolumne auf SPON lesen, und diese hier war mal wieder besonders gut.
Wir lieben Überwachung.
Alexander Lehmann:
Der größte Überwachungsskandal der Geschichte: Neben jedem Bürger, dessen Daten irgendwann einmal durchs Netz geschickt werden, sind selbst Regierungen und ehemals mächtige Politiker Opfer der illegalen menschenrechtsbrechenden Sammelwut der Geheimdienste.
Questions I ask when reviewing a design by Jason Fried of Basecamp
Jason Fried:
I’ve been thinking more about how I review a design – both my own and someone else’s. So over the past couple days I’ve been writing down every question I’ve been asking when I look at a design-in-progress. Some of these I say out loud, some just go through my head, some are in person, others are posted to Basecamp or Campfire. These are in no particular order, and I don’t ask all of them every time.
3 Reasons to Travel While You're Young
Never were more fatal words spoken:
- Yeah, but… what about debt?
- Yeah, but… what about my job?
- Yeah, but… what about my boyfriend (or dog or car or whatever)?
“Yeah, but…” is pernicious. Because it makes it sound like we have the best of intentions when really we are just too scared to do what we should. It allows us to be cowards, while sounding noble.
OR Books Birthday Sale
OR Books currently has all e-books on sale for $1 (and the paperbacks are on sale, too). I just bought a few.
Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day? - Scientific American
In today’s world, the most widely used numeral system is decimal (base 10), a system that probably originated because it made it easy for humans to count using their fingers.
I knew it!
The coming digital anarchy - Telegraph
Bitcoin is giving banks a run for their money. Now the same technology threatens to eradicate social networks, stock markets, even national governments. Are we heading towards an anarchic future where centralised power of any kind will dissolve?
Totally worth your time.
Signing and encrypting my emails with S/MIME
There are basically two popular ways to sign and encrypt one’s email messages: S/MIME and PGP. I had a look at both and decided to start with S/MIME. But I may use PGP in the future, too, and use it alongside.
Using S/MIME (or PGP) gives me these two benefits:
- I can sign all my emails, verifying that I am indeed the owner of the email address in the “From:” field.
- I can encrypt my messages for the recipient, if I have stored his or her S/MIME certificate (once you receive a S/MIME-signed email, you have also obtained the correspondent’s certificate).
I chose S/MIME first, because it is way easier to use: it’s integrated into all or most popular email clients and so there’s no need to install any additional software. And you can continue to use your email clients of choice, even for encrypted messages.
Here are the few things I needed to do, in order to sign and encrypt my email messages on my Mac and my iPhone using S/MIME:
- Obtaining a S/MIME email certificate. I got my class 1 certificate for free at Comodo.
- Opening and storing the certificate with my Mac’s Keychain Access. (At this point, my Mac was completely configured. From then on, Mail offered me to sign and encrypt my messages).
- Exporting it from there as a password-protected .p12 file.
- Copying it to the iPhone and installing it.
- In the iPhone preferences under Mail > (Email Account) > Account > Advanced, I turned on “S/MIME” plus “Sign” and “Encrypt”.
While this only took me 15 minutes, I wish this process was more straightforward, so this would be more easily accessible to less computer-savvy people, too. But it’s definitely easier than setting up PGP.
A more detailed description on how to set up S/MIME on a Mac and iOS device can be found in the article “How to secure your e-mail under Mac OS X and iOS 5 with S/MIME” on ars technica.
At last, here are some more links on the topic, that I find useful:
- http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/7874/how-does-pgp-differ-from-s-mime
- https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/
- http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/email-encryption-using-pgp-and-s-mime/
- http://www.justinrummel.com/acquiring-a-smime-certificate-for-free/
- http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/smime-in-os-x-isnt-just-for-tin-hat-wearing-nerds-anymore/
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_an_SMIME_certificate
- http://securitymusings.com/article/2808/using-smime-on-ios-5-beta
- http://www.thunderbird-mail.de/wiki/Mailverschlüsselung_mit_S/MIME (German)
- https://prism-break.org/en/categories/os-x/#email-encryption
- https://gpgtools.org/
- http://notes.jerzygangi.com/the-best-pgp-tutorial-for-mac-os-x-ever/
Free Vector Maps
Royalty-free vector maps.
Nice.