technology
Control of your personal identity isn’t something the Internet is known for. It’s more famous for taking away control of your information and giving it to big companies can monetize it. Bitcoin blockchain technology promises to change that. Those that know me know I’m a huge fan
nametiles
I’m very excited to tell you about Nametiles, a way to add beautiful embedded profiles and tagging to blogs and websites. Nametiles lets you embed profile information from Passcard, a digital passport secured by Bitcoin, and tag people using their Passcard +passname on your site. End broken links If
technology
Just finished day #4 with the Apple Watch. I keep getting asked what I think about it so I'm collecting my impressions here. Some background: I'm not a watch guy. I have little interest in expensive mechanical watches and haven't worn a watch since
privacy
Update: They have removed the tracking. Impressive responsiveness! Friend +liongrass pointed me to an organization called the "Global Commission on Internet Governance" that released a statement calling privacy "fundamental human right" on their open source website. Lofty goals and admirable words. If only their actions and
apple
Like many globe-traveling entrepreneurs, I use a lot of mobile data. In Hong Kong, my carrier slows down my data when I hit 6 gigabytes every month, so I hook up to public wifi whenever possible. While there are tens of thousands of wifi hotspots across the city, public wifi
china
Baidu's content data network (CDN), the computers that serve Baidu analytics and Baidu ads has been hijacked and is being used to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on popular developer tool Github. The China Twitterverse has been buzzing today with reports of weird javascript errors
infosec
I joined Leonhard Weese and Fabian Lischka in leading a 60 minute workshop on information security and encryption for journalists at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Central, Hong Kong. Our goal was to give journalists some basic steps they could take to improve the security of the information the collect
china
Great post about in ChinaLawBlog about how China is putting an end to so-called variable interest entities (VIEs) that most of China's large internet companies, including Tencent, Sina and Baidu, used to IPO overseas and raise funds from foreign investors. Yet, the remarkable fact is that these highly
china
Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the death of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The BBC reported on those mourning the anniversary of his death in Beijing: Mourners have gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of China's purged former leader, Zhao Ziyang. More than 100
identity
Came across this video where a number of students in a British Chinese language school are asked whether they consider themselves British or Chinese or something else. I tweeted the link without comment intentionally hoping no one would notice and a Twitter follower called me out on it. Some thoughts:
politics
Many have asked why there has been so much more attention to the Charlie Hebdo attacks compared to Nigeria's Baga Massacre. Here are my thoughts: I've been to Paris multiple times. I've studied French. I've read French cartoons. I've read
bitcoin
Update: Bitstamp CEO Nejc Kodrič issued a comment via Twitter an hour or so after this post went live Bitcoin had a rough year in 2014, losing much of its value. The first few days of 2015 aren't looking much better. Since January 3rd, we've watched
