“The announcement that they are able to decrypt the files on behalf of the government contradicts their prior public statements. They claim that Dropbox employees aren’t able to access user files.

This announcement means that Dropbox never had any mechanism to prevent employees from accessing your files, and it means that Dropbox never had the crypto smarts to ensure the privacy of your files and never had the smarts to only decrypt the files for you. It turns out, they keep their keys on their servers, and anyone with clearance at Dropbox or anyone that manages to hack into their servers would be able to get access to your files.”

via Dropbox Lack of Security – Miguel de Icaza.

“Why Apple won’t make a cell phone”

via Saying Apple Will Never Do Something: Always Dangerous.

via Graphemica – For people who ♥ letters, numbers, punctuation, &c.

World’s Biggest PAC-MAN.

via Retractable dog snap leash Povodokus.

Kingdom Tower will make the Burj Khalifa look short, reach one mile up | DVICE.

The Tragic Death of the Flip – NYTimes.com.

Prompt is a clean, crisp, and cheerful SSH client

via Panic Blog » Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS..

via Welcome :: Indexhibit.

An Interview With Twitter’s Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass

via Twitter’s Forgotten Cofounder, Noah Glass.

Mainly, the official version leaves out the role of a major cofounder. Some early Twitter investors also wonder if it also leaves out a scandal.

via How Twitter Was Founded.

Lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen.

via Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey.

Overshadowed by news elsewhere in recent weeks, China has been rounding up writers, lawyers, and activists since mid-February, when calls began to circulate for protests inspired by those in the Middle East and North Africa. By now the contours are clear: according to a count by Chinese Human Rights Defenders, an advocacy group, the government has “criminally detained 26 individuals, disappeared more than 30, and put more than 200 under soft detention.”

via Letter from China: China: The Big Chill : The New Yorker.

via Webstock ’11: John Gruber – The Gap Theory of UI Design on Vimeo.

Well-designed systems NEVER store passwords.

via France to require cleartext password storage – Boing Boing and Net giants challenge French data law