In March of this year Apple applied for a patent on technology that enables or disables features of a phone via a config file. The tech is already in use: it’s the carrier profiles we’ve been downloading recently. On the one hand this is just an extension of the parental controls that Apple has included [...]

Posted October 13, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology, Uncategorized. Tags: control, iphone, trusted computing, vendor vs. consumer. Be the first one.

Simon Mahler did the audio for Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel’s Trusted Computing movie. The movie is good, but I realized I was letting it play in the background just to hear the soundtrack, so I finally looked up Mahler’s fotone.net and found the three free song downloads.
It’s good stuff, but I’m wondering where [...]

Posted December 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: anti tcpa movie, audio, audioproduktion, free download, mp3, music, Simon Mahler, trusted computing. Be the first one.

Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel at Lafkon bring us this wonderfully engaging animated story of Trusted Computing. There’s lots more to the story at AgainstTCPA.com, and I need to thank David Rothman at TeleRead for alerting me to both the video and the site.
I haven’t had much to say about TCPA, but I think of [...]

Posted September 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: against tcpa, againsttcpa, animated story, anti tcpa, antitcpa, lafkon, problem, problems, problems with tcpa, risk, risks, risks of tcpa, tc video, tcpa, trusted computing, video. 4 Comments.