Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg@mastodon.xyz

This week's net.wars, "Antepenultimate", carps about the choices forced on us by the way UK banks are implementing 2FA under PSD2: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/08/antepenultimate.html

This week's net.wars, "The law of the camera", is dismayed by the privatization of public space that facial recognition at Kings Cross represents: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/08/the_law_of_the_camera.html

This week's net.wars, "Collision course", considers the mismatch between growing mass surveillance systems and concerns about our democratic future: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/08/collision_course.html

This week's net.wars, "Obsession", attends the Royal Institution's (@ri_science) event on the history of perpetual motion, part of celebrating Leonardo da Vinci's quincentenary, and finds science moved on but the dream never died: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/02/obsession.html

This week's net.wars, "Pushy algorithms", frets about the results of the online harms consultation: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/02/pushy_algorithms.html

This week's net.wars, "Mission creep", reviews THE HAYSTACK, in production at the Hampstead Theatre, London (@Hamps_Theatre) until March 7: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/02/mission_creep.html

This week's net.wars, "Dirty networks", finds that 5G networks will be insecure whoever supplies them...and suggests that Boris Johnson has just made the case for ubiquitous strong, uncrackable encryption: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/01/dirty_networks.html

This week's net.wars, "The inevitability narrative", is @cpdpconferences, where AI has colonized every panel and @hartzog demands an outright ban on facial recognition: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/01/the_inevitability_narrative.html

This week's net.wars, "Software inside", encounters programmable, software-defined networks for the first time @cyberwinterschool and wonders what risks they pose to Internet freedoms: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/01/software_inside.html

This week's net.wars, "The forever bug", notes the revival of the Y2K "Millennium" bug, which was and is a real thing: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/01/the_forever_bug.html

This week's net.wars, "Chronocentric circles", wraps up the Internet of 2019, a year that looks better than it did only a few days ago: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2020/01/chronocentric_circles.html

This week's net.wars, "Runaway", gets scared by Vitaly Shmatikov's presentation on "overlearning", the problem that computer models learn more than their makers intend: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/12/runaway.html

This week's net.wars, "Humans in, bugs out", takes issue with John
Naughton (@jjn1), who wonders @guardian why we hold AI to a higher
standard than ourselves:
https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/12/humans_in_bugs_out.html

This week's net.wars, "Becoming a science writer", summarizes recent talks as @absw member for scientist PhDs, including Wednesday's event organized by @jackgenewheeler: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/12/becoming_a_science_writer.html

This week's net.wars, "The dot-org of our discontents", believes the sale of the dot-org registry exposes yet again the fact that we do not know what the domain name system is for: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/12/the_dot-org_of_our_discontents.html
(with thanks to @kierenmccarthy for his reporting in this area)

This week's net.wars, "Open season", finds digital rights under threat in the leaked US-UK free trade negotiation documents: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/11/open_season_1.html

In this week's net.wars, "The choices of others", my neighbor makes himself into a data controller by purchasing an Amazon Ring doorbell: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/11/the_choices_of_others.html

This week's net.wars, "A short history of the future", looks back at the predictive power of Frances Cairncross's 1998 book The Death of Distance: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/11/a_short_history_of_the_future.html

This week's net.wars, "Burn rate", rather gloomily notes that we are burning through every kind of capital at an unsustainable rate:
https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/11/burn_rate.html

This week's net.wars, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" argues that it's time to lose the fantasy that personal data can be anonymized (with thanks to @einsteinsattic for the inspiration): https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/11/nobody_expects_the_spanish_inq.html

This week's net.wars, "When we were", attends the 50th reunion of
CompuServe. "Established 1969 - Impact Forever", the event's banner
read: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/10/when_we_were.html

This week's net.wars, "I never paid for it in my life", takes issue with Jaron Lanier's notion that the companies should pay us for our data: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/10/i_never_paid_for_it_in_my_life.html

This week's net.wars, "The China Syndrome", watches the Hong Kong protests become the vector for exporting censorship: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2019/10/the_china_syndrome.html