There’s a screenshot that’s been sitting on my desktop for a rather long time now, and it’s as scary as it is interesting.
Facebook recently conducted a poll which showed up on the homepage newsfeed, and asked Facebook members just how exactly did they think Facebook’s “friend finder” worked when it prompted them for their email [...]
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Disturbing Stats About Facebook Users & Security
Published by August 13th, 2008 in Blogosphere, Hacking, Privacy, Programming, Security 11 CommentsPossible Severe Gmail Security Vulnerability (Updated)
Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Google, Hacking, Privacy, Security 14 CommentsGmail may have a serious security vulnerability that can result in the leaking of sensitive private information randomly to people you don’t know, haven’t contacted, and have nothing to do with.
It would seem that between the way Gmail saves and retrieves sessions, existing sessions are authenticated, and views are cached there are one or more [...]
Mapping Computer Techniques to the Real World
Published by May 18th, 2008 in Corporate Talk, Hardware, Privacy 3 CommentsAs a recent Times article describes, shopping plazas are now using cell-phone tracking technology to map shoppers’ activities and movement patterns. The "Path Intelligence" hardware used to track the movements works like this:
A cell-phone-wielding shopper enters the shopping plaza.
Path Intelligence monitors mounted throughout the plaza detect that a new mobile phone is in the vicinity [...]
Family Misunderstands Open Source, Panics, & Sues the Wrong Person…
Published by September 22nd, 2007 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Privacy 1 CommentOpen source is supposed to be a way of simplifying licensing issues and sharing your software/music/video/other content with the masses — freely and magnanimously. Problem is, what happens when something open source is found to be a (possible) violation of some else’s rights? What happens to its derivatives? Do they just pack up shop and [...]
Does Net-non-Neutrality Already Exist?
Published by December 8th, 2006 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Google, Privacy, SEO, Yahoo! 5 CommentsNet-Neutrality is without a doubt the biggest techno-political debate of the year. The entire issue has spun out of control since mid-2006, and here on the eve of 2007 it has yet to be resolved. The only question is, has net-neutrality already been destroyed and hacked-to-pieces to a greater extent than anyone thought already existed?
Earlier [...]
National Online “Meth-Makers” Registry
Published by December 6th, 2006 in Corporate Talk, Privacy, Reviews 3 CommentsAccording to an MSNBC article published earlier today, many States are considering the creation of another type of Online Offenders Registry – one for anyone involved in the “cooking” or dealing of methamphetamine. Online Offenders Registries in the United States were previously restricted to sex offenders, namely, rapists and pedophiles. The question is, “What’s the [...]
Zune, Microsoft, & DRM: What’s all the Fuss About?
Published by October 9th, 2006 in Corporate Talk, Hacking, Hardware, Privacy, Security 29 CommentsSomeone help us out here. Since when does a bit of news about ‘crippled’ wi-fi activity and slightly-restricted file-sharing on a device make us lose all self-respect and denounce the product as hopeless?
Are we the only ones that how that every single MP3/Audio player to date has been successfully stripped of its firmware, souped-up, [...]
An Argument for Full Disclosure
Published by October 8th, 2006 in Corporate Talk, Hacking, Privacy, Programming, Security, Software 4 CommentsNeoSmart Technologies is a big proponent of Full Disclosure when dealing with security vulnerabilities. Many coders and general online denizens think that’s not a very nice thing to do – that it creates more harm than it helps; but if you look at the alternatives it becomes obvious that not only is Full Disclosure not [...]
The Law of the Jungle
Published by September 2nd, 2006 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Privacy 0 CommentsCopyright rules don’t apply online. Well, technically speaking, they apply just the same as anywhere else, but the way the internet is ‘organized’ and how information and content is not limited to a particular location or country has raised a lot of issues on international copyright violations and have more than their share of lawsuits. That’s [...]
The Other Great Firewall
Published by August 28th, 2006 in Corporate Talk, Privacy, Security 12 CommentsEveryone’s heard of The Great Firewall of China and it’s international eyebrow-raising responses from the internet community. China’s Firewall has come into the spotlight with criticism from all around the world. But China isn’t the only one, and it isn’t even necessarily the biggest — it’s just the one people talk about most. There is [...]
