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 7 CommentsPossible Severe Gmail Security Vulnerability (Updated)
Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Google, Hacking, Privacy, Security 8 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 2 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 [...]
