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Tue Jun 12 18:56:54 2007 GMT: Google's Response to The Article 29 Working Party Letter
Sun Jun 10 11:24:12 2007 GMT: New Intel and Sun C++ Compiler Versions
Mon May 28 21:43:07 2007 GMT: Google's misleading response to privacy concerns
Google's privacy counsel has responded to concerns over Google's ambitions to maximise the personal information it holds. Unfortunately, this response is quite misleading as it suggests that Google only collects personal information as part of its personalised search service. But this is definitely not the case as Google has recently clarified that they collect information about the search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. And there is no (easy) way to opt out of this data collection. But it gets even worse when you add Google's AdWords and Google Analytics to the equation as there are now lots of sites using at least one of these services. So you don't even have to use Google's search engine to have data about the sites visited sent to Google. And by the way, combining those logs doesn't look like rocket science to me...
Mon May 28 21:06:00 2007 GMT: greylstd 0.2
I am not sure if I have ever mentioned greylstd (a greylisting daemon for Exim), but I have now put together version 0.2 which improves whitelisting functionality (whitelisting by sender and by sender IP-subnet). BTW, there is now also a pre-compiled Ubuntu (dapper drake) package available.
Wed May 23 17:41:07 2007 GMT: Google's goal to organise your daily life
The Financial Times has a worrying article about "Google's ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users". One of the key statements is that "[...] gathering more personal data was a key way for Google to expand [...]"
Fri May 11 22:34:22 2007 GMT: Broken DNS Setup
Broken DNS setups are probably quite common and usually not worth mentioning, but it's kind of odd when a web site that describes itself as "the Leader in Network Knowledge" doesn't get its DNS setup right.
The domain networkworld.com has two nameservers listed at the registrar, but the authoritative nameservers only return a NS record for ns1.nww.com.
Wed May 09 17:41:19 2007 GMT: JabRSS User Accounts Cleanup
On Monday I cleaned up inactive user accounts for JabRSS (inactive means users that haven't received a single message from JabRSS in more than half a year). This brought down the number of registered users to just over 2000 (from around 3000).
Sat May 05 14:58:58 2007 GMT: Swindon Local Elections
Sun Apr 29 20:00:38 2007 GMT: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Tue Apr 24 20:23:23 2007 GMT: Salzburg Holiday
Mon Apr 09 11:01:38 2007 GMT: Easter Sunshine
Thu Mar 29 18:22:54 2007 GMT: Riots at Gare du Nord
