Tag Archives: cell phones

The crypto triple threat club

posted on 11 June, 2012 also tagged , , , ,

My written one-to-one communication patterns can be grouped into three major categories: longform, synchronous shortform, and asynchronous shortform. For the most part I use email, IMs, and SMS, respectively, for those purposes. Each of those technologies has its own end-to-end encryption protocol.1 Email has the venerable OpenPGP protocol and the GnuPG suite of programs; IM [...]

Conversation’s just fine, thanks: a response to Sherry Turkle

posted on 29 April, 2012 also tagged , , , , ,

Every once in a while, my Iron Blogger group decides to take on a common topic. At our meet-up this week, a handful of us agreed to take on last week’s Sherry Turkle op-ed in the New York Times. It’s called "The Flight from Conversation," and it seems to cover some of the same territory [...]

Voluntary obsolescence: checking out of the upgrade cycle

posted on 15 January, 2012 also tagged , , , ,

This week I purchased a new cell phone. I’ve been using my current phone, an HTC Desire Z (dubbed the G2 by T-Mobile in the US), for a little over a year and it’s time for an upgrade. Or maybe it’s a sidegrade. Instead of buying the newest model on the market (or waiting for [...]