A good article reviewing the history of the Tivo’s decision to use hardware to prevent users modifying the installed OSS. And the GPL’s response with the GPL v3.

A new generation of inexpensive disk drive enclosures using hardware encryption and RFID keys do not fulfil the promises of their publicity. The adverts claim 128-bit AES hardware encryption, but they don’t tell us how it is used.

You can also control the “friction” and “elasticity” settings, to change up the results.Interesting yes; useful no probably not.

A “web of data” is where data sources and services are the centre of the Web, rather than pages or put another way “your site is not your product”. The ghost of Tom still guides much of what we are doing in the A&M bit of the BBC on /programmes and /music