bosson’s Comments

• Sep 7th, 2017 @ 12:21am

  Thank You!

  on Case Dismissed: Judge Throws Out Shiva Ayyadurai's Defamation Lawsuit Against Techdirt
  Its wonderful that you got trough this b.s., so that we can continue to read your awesome reporting on things that really matter. You deserve the best.
• Mar 30th, 2017 @ 3:03am

  Tracking on swedish government offices and browsing

  on No, You Can't Buy Congress's Internet Data, Or Anyone Else's
  Well, tracking can be a lot more personal.
  
  Look at Creeper, it was created in the wake of the EU Data retention directive. It tracks IP's of Swedish government offices using images for tracking on several sites as to remind government about the effects of data-retention. This could of course be combined with cookies to gather several locations of government employees and target groups specifically. Any US projects like this?
  
  http://www.gnuheter.com/creeper/senaste
  
  There are several data hoarders that work in a similar fashion to source tracking and they profile employees combined with home, airport, and library IPs or other stops as daily routines. Telcos would do well here in tracking companies for direct marketing.
  
  Google masks the last byte of the client IP in its Ad-exchange but others don't. Even without exact IPs, the Ad-tech cookie can be bound to the ad-exchange-cookie to get direct hits by way of redirecting the tracking-image one more step once a new targeting pixel is triggered and source-matched.
  
  Senators must be seeing this already.
• Dec 31st, 2015 @ 4:42am

  Its not atomized thats the problem, its abstraction

  on If Microsoft Wins Its 'Stupid Patent Of The Month' Lawsuit, Expect A Plague Of Trolls To Move Into Design Patents
  The trouble in software patents is spelled Abstract matters that cover things beyond real world application with information models - no matter scale or composition.
  
  Combining stuff "atoms" is often inventive and should be protected IMHO. Atoms would in real world terms combine in chemistry...