Tiffany B. Brown

A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff.

Posts tagged: trust

What I’m reading: Privacy, security, pervasive technology and society
I’ve been thinking about pervasive technology, society, macroeconomics, the Internet, control, our environment, our mass delusions surrounding privacy, and the efficacy of voting this morning. They’re seemingly unconnected, and yet very connected. I like to think that I am an above-average user of technology by American standards. And yet, if I am overwhelmed by the [...] [1 Aug 2008]
Who do you trust more: Corporations or Government?
This post takes the long road. If you don’t want to take the long road, skip the train of thought and get to the point. In one of my moments of Random Thoughtitude, I was thinking about what my ideal country would look like. My first thought was infrastructure. I want a government that adequately funds [...] [28 Apr 2008]
Trusting Anil Dash not to f*ck up my site with evil JavaScript
Below is a snippet of an entry from Anil Dash’s blog on the possibilities of using embed, object and JavaScript for serving all kinds of content — not just movies. The obvious question is ‘How much should you trust code from strangers?’ And can this be done in a safe(-ish), secure(-ish) way? Possibly related: Cross-domain [...] [14 Mar 2008]