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" Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Way
Write
iPhone
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" Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable. "
Jonathan Zittrain
iPhone
Predictable
Reliable
" Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Customer
Feel
Personal
" We face paired dangers. The first is that our networks are successfully attacked. The second is that our fear of attack will cause us to destroy what makes the Internet special. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Internet
Special
Us
" Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Time
Pretty
Historical
" The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Flame
Freedom
Constitution
" I don't know how much thought is behind it, but it seems to me highly effective the way that Facebook will let somebody tag a photo with a friend's name, then others who are a friend of that friend can perhaps immediately see the photo, and the friend, in the meantime, has a chance to wander back and un-tag it. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Name
Me
Know
" Attacks on Internet sites and infrastructure, and the compromise of secure information, pose a particularly tricky problem because it is usually impossible to trace an attack back to its instigator. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Back
Information
Impossible
" Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Other
Digital
Control
" The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Desire
iPhone
Apple
" Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Time
Information
Past
" Thanks to iCloud and other services, the choice of a phone or tablet today may lock a consumer into a branded silo, making it hard for him or her to do what Apple long importuned potential customers to do: switch. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Today
Apple
Long
" The Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new Internet service providers or new forms of expanding access. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Connections
Service
Internet
" People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Process
See
People
" The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Enough
Old
Work
" With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed. "
Jonathan Zittrain
New
Company
Writing
" The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Best
Humanity
Collective
" Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Mobile
Travel
Standard
" When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Worry
Three
Ready
" If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you. "
Jonathan Zittrain
You
Your
Betray
" Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Details
Tell
You
" Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Digital
Contract
Work
" Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Search
Treat
Data
" The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Easy
Internet
Freedom
" The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Difficult
Need
Pressure
" Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our lives in ways not always captured or best shaped by the typical template of consumer and seller. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Facebook
New
Step
" The crucial legacy of the personal computer is that anyone can write code for it and give or sell that code to you - and the vendors of the PC and its operating system have no more to say about it than your phone company does about which answering machine you decide to buy. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Say
More
You
" The problem is, we're moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Moment
Problem
Moving
" Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Book
Protect
Purchasing
" When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Media
Social Media
Think
" Facebook allows outsiders to add functionality to the site but reserves the right to change that policy at any time, to charge a fee for applications, or to de-emphasize or eliminate apps that court controversy or that they simply don't like. "
Jonathan Zittrain
Change
Right
Policy