Cory Doctorow stopped by the UW to talk about tech policy issues this afternoon. Promoted us to develop new takes on opportunistic encryption to improve privacy, and on the need for privacy as a differentiator for applications.
He feels, I think rightly, that there is a distinct lack of code being written solving privacy problems. His take is that people have given up trying, but that there are still easy ways to change norms. He pushed on changing browsers to not accept 3rd party cookies by default as a way to change norms. (I have a chrome patch sitting around somewhere that goes further, but never figured out how to surface an appropriate UI.)
