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Warning about "trigger warnings" used to censor university curriculum
Started by Mark A. McCutcheon in the group Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA) March 7, 2014 - 9:19am Replies (10) Last reply by Mark A. McCutcheon May 29, 2014 - 4:28pmPosted to group: Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA)CAUT has alerted Canadian university faculty associations to an emerging concern about the use of "trigger warnings" in university curriculum, use with serious implications for quality of teaching and academic freedom: "Trigger warnings," are...How open source delivers for government
By Viorel Tabara 3 October 2016 @ 6:14pmPosted to group: Open Source Softwareinfo.crunchydata.com - Note that in their view, proprietary solutions are "legacy". A simple example of how the move toward OSS can improve IT architecture is by thinking about database backups. In the legacy regime of licensed closed source software, each license of...Microsoft under GDPR microscope for Office 365 and OneDrive | Alphr
By Jon Dron 15 November 2018 @ 12:04pm Comments (4)www.alphr.com - No big surprises here to anyone that has ever so much as glanced at Microsoft's business model and historical abuse of its customers, but definitely a matter of concern for organizations (like Athabasca University) that rent their services from...Open Whisper Systems
By Jon Dron 20 November 2016 @ 1:08pm Comments (2)whispersystems.org - The Signal protocol is designed for secure, private, encrypted messaging and real-time calling. The protocol, designed by Open Whisper Systems, is used in an increasingly large range of tools (including by Facebook and Google), but their own app is...- By Terry Anderson February 14, 2015 - 8:49amAt last, our Open Praxis article about Landing, Elgg system used in unpaced undergrad course. important insights? http:/
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By Dmitry Makovey 27 February 2015 @ 1:46pm Comments (3)Posted to group: Open Source SoftwareJuniper's products are still insecure; more evidence that the company was complicit / Boing...
By Jon Dron 10 January 2016 @ 11:51am Comments (1)Posted to group: Open Source Softwareboingboing.net - So it looks like the backdoor into Juniper firewalls that lets anyone invisibly observe encrypted traffic persists, and it looks more and more like it was an intentional policy. It is hard to fathom why anyone would trust a closed-source product...Response to Open U
By Steve Swettenham November 14, 2012 - 10:12am Comments (8)learning at a distance
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