Comments on: Enterprise amnesia and the thickness of people http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: W http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-40 W Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:30:05 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-40 Pre-emptive chaffing needs a pretty enlightened degree of awareness...forget silver spoons: is this part of what responsible future godparents will do for new-born babies? Pre-emptive chaffing needs a pretty enlightened degree of awareness…forget silver spoons: is this part of what responsible future godparents will do for new-born babies?

]]> By: W http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-39 W Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:29:40 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-39 I suppose there's a scale of technical protection for privacy - will the greater progress be made with personal tools and techniques (PETs, crypto, steganopgraphy, chaffing, whatever) or the corporate/gopvernment ones(surveillance, data retention, matching etc). At one end we're in control, and at the other end we're controlled and powerless. ...and a second scale of regulation: is this left to the market or is it regulated . At one end it's a free market beyond what the US is like today, at the other a regulated one beyond today's Eu model. This gives us four possible futures... I suppose there’s a scale of technical protection for privacy - will the greater progress be made with personal tools and techniques (PETs, crypto, steganopgraphy, chaffing, whatever) or the corporate/gopvernment ones(surveillance, data retention, matching etc). At one end we’re in control, and at the other end we’re controlled and powerless.

…and a second scale of regulation: is this left to the market or is it regulated . At one end it’s a free market beyond what the US is like today, at the other a regulated one beyond today’s Eu model.

This gives us four possible futures…

]]> By: James Cronin http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-28 James Cronin Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:21:12 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-28 What he was saing wat that you can buy a gene sequencer for $100,000 and download the pattern for smallpox from the net. What he was saing wat that you can buy a gene sequencer for $100,000 and download the pattern for smallpox from the net.

]]> By: wendyg http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-27 wendyg Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:03:51 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-27 He mentioned something complicated whose details I didn't quite catch involving dug-up Eskimo DNA, home printing, bacteria, and some other stuff that are becoming increasingly affordable. I think basically he was thinking of biological weapons. wg He mentioned something complicated whose details I didn’t quite catch involving dug-up Eskimo DNA, home printing, bacteria, and some other stuff that are becoming increasingly affordable. I think basically he was thinking of biological weapons.

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]]> By: James Cronin http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-26 James Cronin Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:51:10 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-26 Re thickness and thinness of people's identities and the clue that that might give you to whether or not they were fabricated. I found myself wondering the other day about techniques that might be used to re-gain aspects of anonymity in the context of the funamental change in the privacy environment that children growing up on myspace et al. will suffer and the perhaps currently unknown future macroscopic societal effects that this may cause. I wondered about chaffing (the release of even more perhaps contradictory information to obscure the original) but on the Internet a lot of information has time stamps so it's often possible to identify the first. So I wonder whether, in order to preserve privacy, you would have to release false information ahead of time, or in an identity environment to have a number of fabricated identies ready ahead of time. Does the witness protection programme and similar institutionalised identity changing processes only work because they manipulates databases which are closed or non timestamped? Re thickness and thinness of people’s identities and the clue that that might give you to whether or not they were fabricated.

I found myself wondering the other day about techniques that might be used to re-gain aspects of anonymity in the context of the funamental change in the privacy environment that children growing up on myspace et al. will suffer and the perhaps currently unknown future macroscopic societal effects that this may cause.

I wondered about chaffing (the release of even more perhaps contradictory information to obscure the original) but on the Internet a lot of information has time stamps so it’s often possible to identify the first.

So I wonder whether, in order to preserve privacy, you would have to release false information ahead of time, or in an identity environment to have a number of fabricated identies ready ahead of time.

Does the witness protection programme and similar institutionalised identity changing processes only work because they manipulates databases which are closed or non timestamped?

]]> By: James Cronin http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-25 James Cronin Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:36:27 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-25 Another point about subtle data corruptions, mis-spellings, etc is that it reveals infomation about the structure of data sharing network itself and the routes used to prolierate data. Another point about subtle data corruptions, mis-spellings, etc is that it reveals infomation about the structure of data sharing network itself and the routes used to prolierate data.

]]> By: William http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-24 William Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:31:33 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/03/26/enterprise-amnesia-and-the-thickness-of-people/#comment-24 What does he mean by cheap weapons that do more damage than nuclear weapons? He's a really original voice; someone needs to ask these questions such as where data sharing actually takes us. What does he mean by cheap weapons that do more damage than nuclear weapons? He’s a really original voice; someone needs to ask these questions such as where data sharing actually takes us.

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