Posts Tagged ‘amsterdam’
GOTO Amsterdam 2012 organizer Trifork violating @Eventbrite TOS #fraud [UPDATED]
I believe that violations of terms of services can occur for many different reasons, usually this comes from not reading them. I am the first to complain about unfair terms, or the faulty application of terms to non-violators. Some violations are so blatant that they should be mentioned. And that’s where this tale starts:
Mobile Monday #19 – Mobile Stories (cont.) #MoMoAms
Part 1 of Mobile Monday can be found here.
Initially Ben van der Burg‘s presentation using DiskSlideJockey failed, so Ville Versterinen presented ShadowCities, which I discuss here. Ben’s discussion centered on the disappearance of Story Telling, and the creation of Emotelling and the pornofication of the story. Lastly Ben Scott-Robinson of We Love Mobile proposed the exact opposite and discussed how important story and narrative are to getting your message accross.
Proof of Concept: Simple Authenticated Internet Access
Sitting in the train at Amsterdam’s “Centraal Station” I was considering what the simplest method would be to provide public authenticated internet access – such as the one I was using in the train – with a payment/self-service to track the users. I’m not saying that this is possible to do with low end systems such as your provider gives away as part of the DSL subscription.
I’m into quick paper prototypes, so there could be an even simpler way in practice, and I think I mostly covered it in the diagram.
- Firstly the client must be able to connect, which is symbolized by this arrow. I don’t want the user to be redirected to the internet immediately so I have the “proxy” redirect the user, this could be based on the MAC address that the user’s computer broadcasts to the Access Point, IP allocated in the DHCP lease, or both. The risk here is that the IP and MAC can both be spoofed. In a system for which payment is needed the risk is theft of the connection from the real customer or a DoS due to the IP address collision. The choice here is to accept and budget for it, making all the honest customers pay for the crimes perpetrated against them, or reduce this by using the Access Manager (AM) to ensure that the current user is the user who authenticated by using some browser magic.
- The user goes to the Self Service and either creates and pays for an account, or requests some type of (limited/trial) access. There is a risk here that identity theft can take place, as the network is not secured with a password, and this risk can be reduced by using SSL to encrypt the session.
- The user then uses the created data to authenticate, again this risk can be reduced by using a SSL connection.
- After authentication the user session is passed on to the AM.
- The AM checks the access rights for the user/session and passes this data on to the Self Service so the user can see the current status of the account.
- The “proxy” is also updated at the same time as the Self Service, this to ensure that the user can make use of the service that has been acquired.
- The user starts to use the service which has been acquired. To avoid the theft of the user’s information due to an insecure wifi network the choice can be made to tunnel the connection to the internet over SSL, the issue is naturally that each page or item will get a SSL security warning. And this may give issues with sites which do use SSL. The simplest strategy is to warn the customers of the risk during the Self Service in a EULA that they will never read, although the nicest way would be to warn them in a more prominent way – still the treatment of this risk is to not become involved in any resolution.
Any comments?
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This year’s book reviews #2010
As always I read far more in 2010 than I blogged about, and most of the books I did blog about were treasures. I hope I inspired you to read at least one of them. And you have certainly noticed that I have added them all to the bookstore to make it easier for you to find out more about them.
Twipping Point #twitter
I’ve had this title in my head for about a week now, the title is natur…
Just Finished Reading: “Islands in the Net” #wikileaks #books #datahaven
I’m reading Bruce Sterling‘s Islands in the Net – Amazon de…
xkcd: Online Communities
As followers of mine will know I love xkcd, and he has some gems such as this…
Just Finished Reading “Amsterdam: The Brief Life of a City” #books
I read Amsterdam: The Brief Life of a City by Geert Mak in English rather tha…
Just Finished Reading “Star Wars” #books
I’ve seen the film more than a dozen times, but I had yet to read Star …
Just Finished Reading “Redwall: Outcast of Redwall”
Brian Jacques‘s book Outcast of Redwallfollows Veil the ferret who is r…
Just Finished Reading “The Odessa File” #books
The Odessa File, by Frederick Forsyth, is another of the books I am keeping s…
Just Finished Reading “Redwall: Martin the Warrior” #books
Brian Jacques‘s book Martin the Warrior is another book from the Redwal…
Just Finished Reading “The Moon’s a Balloon” #books
I found The Moon’s a Balloon, by David Niven, in a box of old books. I …
Just Finished Reading “Redwall: Mossflower” #books
Mossflower by Brian Jacques is probably my favourite of the Redwall series, t…
Turn on, tune in, drop out: Personalised Online Education – Introduction #school #education
Timothy Leary once told us to “Turn on, tune in, drop out“, and a…
Just Finished Reading “Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA” #books
For some reason I had the book Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, by Br…
Just Finished Reading “Hitler: The Last Ten Days” #books
After having seen many films and read many books I expected that Hitler: The …
Thor the #Movie
One of my first real American comics was Thor, I really liked it. Sadly it re…
Just Finished Reading: “Wikinomics” #books #ontogenesis
I like Ontologies, Taxonomies and Folksonomies. I’m currently reading W…
Just Finished Reading “The Godfather” #books
I read Mario Puzo famed book The Godfather after having seen the movie a numb…
Just Finished Reading “Anathem” #books
As I previously said I bought Anathem at the same time I bought Cryptonomicon…
Just Finished Reading “Young Winston” #books
I borrowed a number of books from an aunt of mine, who reviewed these books f…
Just Finished Reading “The Big Yin” #books
I was standing in a secondhand book store with my father, and we wandered rou…
Just Finished Reading “Cryptonomicon” #books
As an early Christmas gift my father gave me vouchers he didn’t want to…
Just Finished Reading “The Snake”
The Snake is the first book I have read by John Godey, it was recommended to …
Just Finished Reading “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” #scrum #xp
In the company I work for they are introducing the Agile FrameWork, in the fo…
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Just Finished Reading “Amsterdam: The Brief Life of a City” #books
I read Amsterdam: The Brief Life of a City
As an Amsterdammer living in the centre I know much about my city, but like many I don’t know the history of the all the great and less great people the streets in my city are named after. The mayors, the rich, the famous, less famous and the infamous are all discussed in this book, and their relationships to each other. Like one of the characters drawn by Rembrandt, Elsje Christiaens – an émigré having spend only 14 days in the city, who after possibly working as a prostitute was executed when one of her clients accused her of theft, and was left hanging on the banks of the IJ canal.
Filled with wonderful stories of Amsterdam this is a great read for visitors and natives.
Amsterdam Local Authority Promotes LinkedIn #linkedin
I was send this by a public official in the Amsterdam Local Authority, a brilliant example of how LinkedIn is being integrated into businesses and local government. The Dutch government is already pretty LinkedIn, just like the US government. What is funny are the statistics, over 70% of the reactions to the poll were negative.
Amsterdam Local Authority Promotes their Ambtenaar 2.0 LinkedIn Group
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Realtime Surveying Amsterdam Central Station #technology #amsterdam
I wondered if this device is being used to check the subsidence at Amsterdam CS during the building of the Noord-Zuid lijn.
technorati tags: amsterdam, survey, technology
9 Streets of Street Fair
This Sunday – September 7th – in the Jordaan in Amsterdam there is a braderie, street fair from 11:00 until 19:00. I love the area round the 9 streets, 9 straatjes, and if the weather stays good it should be a nice day wondering.
Here’s a map if you need it:
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Write down what made you happy today
I get messages every couple of days from 43things telling me to write down what made me happy today and read more books.
What made me happy today was the beautiful weather and a nice cup of coffee in my friend’s shop.
Are the 80s back?
I don’t know what it is. And I’ve been noticing it more and more even in the music. I think the 80s are coming back. A friend of mine tells me this is because of the cancerous spread of American Apparel, but it can’t just be that.
We have something like 4 stores in Amsterdam, which all sell 80s reject clothing. Friends of mine ranging between 20 and 25 are doing it, some more unsuccessful than others. Last week I even started to see the huge shoulder pads. Tomorrow is the start of Amsterdam Fashion Week, I’ll try to get my father to photo document what I mean.
Thank God the bouffant hair style hasn’t come back yet.
technorati tags: amsterdam, hair, clothes, fashion, week, 80s
General Musing 