Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist teaching at Princeton; spent three decades at Bell Labs in the group that produced Unix, C and C++, and co-authored The C Programming Language and The Practice of Programming.
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Their wordsBut it seems that the most common problem is using the same password for more than one site. If you do that, your security is no better than that provided by the site with the weakest controls
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 7th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsThere’s little doubt that people who play with their phones and computers while sporadically tuning in to the lecture do not learn as well as those who focus.
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 6th of 7 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsSocial networking sites are useful, but their business model is to sell detailed information about their users. As a result, our personal data spreads far and wide, our privacy is eroded and our risks increase.
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 5th of 7 in this piece
- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsAs an almost accidental byproduct of this progress, we have voluntarily given up an amazing amount of our personal privacy, to a degree that Orwell might well have found incredible.
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsExperience suggests that most people would be quite happy with such a trade - privacy is good but it is often given away or sold off quite cheaply.
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 4th of 7 in this piece
- 10 months earlier
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Their wordsWhy should one have to know any of this technical stuff? I think it matters if one is to be an educated citizen.
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 2nd of 7 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsAs I thought about the panel, it became clear that what we really need is not new technology, but simple old-fashioned technology that works.
↗Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetoniancs.princeton.edu 1st of 7 in this piece