Privacy through obscurity
It’s been a while since I posted a good ol’ “doom and gloom facebook is the death of privacy and it’s going to be a painful transition to the new world” kind of post. Here’s one. With the rise of … Continue reading
Tag Archives: privacy
Something completely different
A somewhat frightening BBC story from my link archives: It turns out that if you’re clever with a webpage, you can pretend to be a visitor’s PC for the purpose of finding out the ID number of their router. Well, … Continue reading
Posted in technical, thehumancondition
Tagged failure, google, internet, mac address, privacy, router, security
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It was only a matter of time
…before someone did this: Please rob me searches twitter for tweets that indicate someone is not at home. It’s made the news; a lot of the news. You’ve probably already read about it before you read this post. My first … Continue reading
Friday log is up
Nothing too special about it. A. Lurkar rightly raised the issue that I haven’t yet protected my schedule from being indexed by the search engines and other web-crawlers. It’s possible that my week of Feb 01-07 will live on the … Continue reading
Posted in personalinthepubliceye
Tagged accountability, log, privacy, schedule, time, time log
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Danah Boyd says good things.
Like this: “People still care about privacy because they care about control. Sure, many teens repeatedly tell me “public by default, private when necessary” but this doesn’t suggest that privacy is declining; it suggests that publicity has value and, more … Continue reading
It’s now official
Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law. I’ve written about this before, back when it was just a complaint to the Commissioner. You bet that Facebook’s information about privacy practices is “confusing and incomplete.” Moreover, it’s confusing and incomplete by design, and … Continue reading
Playing hookey – Part I
From the BBC – a woman fired because she was caught facebooking while claiming to be too sick for work. Playing hookey is not a new thing; it’s just easier to get caught. But there is a new thing at … Continue reading
Schneier on audit
I like to read Bruce Schneier’s stuff; he writes in English. He has a gift for making technical material non-technical. This little piece gives me hope. We’re familiar with social audit; we call it “manners”. Break a taboo, and prepare … Continue reading
An unfortunate accident.
… suffered by a BBC blogger. (A web application showed someone else’s photo on his post, not the one he posted. ) But yet again I’m putting my trust in a social web application, which is obviously a risky thing … Continue reading
Yikes! The inevitable is happening!
Facebook is becoming a target for the unscrupulous. I almost feel bad posting this because it’s nearly a non-story. Bad guys follow where good guys go. Thieves follow money. It is inevitable that data thieves will come to Facebook, because … Continue reading