The Five Most Endangered Words on the Internet
The five most endangered words of the realtime internet era are: Let me think about that. Shirley Sherrod, the former rural development director for the Agriculture Department in Georgia found that out the hard way when she was fired by the Obama administration for her delivery of a supposedly racist speech. The speech was creatively…
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Dave Pell
Forget Walmart. Hackers Conference Badges Show The Future of RFID Tracking
When it comes to tracking people’s every movement—or “location-aware applications” if you’re trying to sound less creepy—nothing beats the badges at hacker conferences. This year, HOPE’s Attendee Meta-Data or AMD badge reached new heights, and suggested more about what you could do with RFID attached to people—both good and bad. “This badge knows what talks…
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Quinn Norton