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Facebook security exposes all your pictures. - 28 Nov 2007
Recently a particular nasty feature of the new Facebook advertising model allowed certain advertising partners to post your purchases to your news feed showing everyone what you had recently bought. The nastiness of this feature – and it is a feature since it was deliberate by Facebook – was the automatic opt in of [...]
Read Full Post »Facebook security in question? - 31 Jul 2007
Earlier today Facebook went down for what was reported as an upgrade. For about an hour or so the site showed a “We’re upgrading” message to all the users who attempted to access the main site. If you attempted to access your schools site (for example mun.facebook.com) then you would have eventually timed [...]
Read Full Post »09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 - 02 May 2007
Quietly over night, a revolt happened. It was not on the morning news, it was not covered by CNN, and no shots were fired, but it happened. In the over night hours Digg.com (a popular user submitted news site) received a torrent of postings about one thing and one thing only.
The thing they [...]
The events at VT got me thinking. - 18 Apr 2007
Originally, I was going to write a piece on intellectual property in my university but during a chat over coffee with my good friend Dennis Rice I have something else one my mind.
With the tragic events that have unfolded this week at Virginia Tech a lot of schools will be looking at their emergency readiness [...]