Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

‘Think Before You Post’

I'm usually not a fan of PR attempts to scare kids about the Internet, as I think the dangers are usually over-hyped. But this think before you post PSA from cybertipline.com seems to me to get the pitch (in both senses of the word) just about right:

Spotted via Smashed Frog

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Help Is On the Way

recovery.gov logo

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Here’s Your Chance to Stuff the Ballot Box

South Florida Daily Blog: SFDB February Post Of The Month: The Nominees lists something I wrote as one of the choices.

In all honesty, I wouldn't have said Eleventh Circuit Says Miami-Dade Schools May Pull ¡Vamos a Cuba! from the Library Shelves was actually one of the Discourse.net Greatest Hits, but hey, I'll take what's on offer.

If you liked the post, or if you have heard of the post, or if you're breathing, why not vote. Or, while you're there you could read the three other posts and vote for the one that's really the best….

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More on the Joys of Weak Passphrases

Emergent Chaos: This Data Will Self-Destruct in 5 Seconds is a fine chaser to Pentagon Media Strategy Document Decrypted Due to Weak Passphrase.

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99 Things

Thanks to Dan Burk, Greg Rutter's Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You're a Loser or Old or Something.

I'm guessing from the titles that I've seen maybe a quarter of them. I guess I'm something, huh?

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We’d Like to Know

Emptywheel asks, Who Watched the Torture Tapes?

And since the CIA now admits it destroyed scads of them, that's the question to ask.

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