Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

"interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of text in any web page using GnuPG.
Adds some features to the Gmail1 interface, to let you use GPG's features directly in your webmail.
More webmails will probably be supported in the future."

"there’s something else behind all this that I think is super important to realize… and that’s that our fundamental notions and expectations of privacy on the web have to change or will be changed for us. Either we do without tools that augment our cognitive faculties or we embrace them, and in so doing, shim open a window on our behaviors and our habits so that computers, computing environments and web service agents can become more predictive and responsive to them, and in so doing, serve us better. So it goes [...] Each of us will eventually need to choose a data brokers or two in the future and agree to similar terms and conditions, just like we’ve done with banks and credit card providers; and if we haven’t already, just as we have as we’ve done in embracing webmail."