Comment Re:You surrendered. (Score 1) 521
It is supposed to be a public unique identifier, nothing more, but it is being routinely (mis-)used as a secret piece of information, for instance, to authenticate people.
Comment Re:DNN? (Score 1) 294
If there is a big enough market for domain name news, it might be interesting to try and steal that domain name!
Comment Re:Draconian Laws (Score 1) 179
One thing to keep in mind is that once people are on FB, private information about them can be posted by other people and linked to them via tagging and linking. Because of most default settings in FB, people can't easily control who sees what their friends and families post about them.
Also, the recent article on privacy salience on Bruce Schneier's blog explains why some people put private information on such sites: FB and similar sites have an agressive marketing strategy that emphasizes the benefits of posting such information, while burying privacy concerns deep in hard-to-find pages.
Submission + - BoycottNovell under DDOS attack (computerworld.com)
David Gerard writes: "Website and blog BoycottNovell is stridently against Microsoft and Novell's dubious works, with opinionated and vituperative posts backed with details. Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols details how BN's been under a DDOS attack. The source is unknown, but as editor Roy Schestowitz says, "I guess the most reassuring way to look at it is as a sign of success. If they try to shut us up so miserably by resorting to crime, then it means our writings have great impact.""
Comment Re:Current users? (Score 5, Interesting) 426
You will have to log in first in order to delete your account. So either log in now, which constitutes use of Facebook after the TOS have been published, and FB will keep the content you're about to delete, or never log in again and leave your content online for FB to do whatever it wants with it.
Facebook: helping you give away your privacy since 2003!
Submission + - The Equationater (equationater.com)
JohnGrahamCumming writes: "I had an itch that needed scratching... I needed to render equations on the web and I didn't want to rely on something like MathML because of poor browser coverage.
So, I created The Equationater. Type in an equation in LaTeX format and it is instantly turned into a PNG file that you can download or link to."
Comment Re:Who uses their real name? (Score 2, Funny) 931
If we are no longer allowed to use pseudonyms on the Internet without getting sued, I'm getting my name legally changed to "Anonymous Coward."
Submission + - Detecting copy/paste and clone stamp image forgery (jgc.org)
JohnGrahamCumming writes: "Photoshop's clone tool provides a powerful way of covering up areas of an image. Uncovering those touched up areas can be done automatically using a recently published algorithm. This blog post describes the algorithm, with examples, and provides GPL licensed source code to image forgery detection."
Comment Re:Hm (Score 1) 206
Sounds just like tumbler.
Submission + - Cryptographically hiding TCP ports (sf.net)
JohnGrahamCumming writes: "The shimmer project implements a cryptographically-based system for hiding important (e.g. SSH) open ports in plain sight. By automatically forwarding from a range of ports all but one of which are honeypots and by changing the ports every minute only a user knowing a shared secret can determine the location of the real SSH server."
Submission + - 'Wildfire' brings social news to Facebook
JohnGrahamCumming writes: "My newly released Wildfire application brings social news to Facebook by exploiting Facebook's social graph. Instead of "digging" stories, or "voting up/down", stories gain credibility only if you deem them worthy of being passed onto your friends. Wildfire offers users three views of the news: the news you and your friends deem interesting, the news that the great unwashed deem interesting and a random view. Randomness means that the Wisdom of Crowds is harnessed without succumbing to mob rule. And RSS integration means you can automatically bring your feeds to Facebook and pass on a subset of the stories. Personally, I started with the Slashdot feed."
Submission + - The Long Tail of Facebook Applications
JohnGrahamCumming writes: "1,225 Facebook applications. 73,109,074 installed in profiles. Hence, the average application has 59,700 users. The problem with the average is that it hides a savage reality of Facebook applications: some have many users, most have almost none. 86% of applications on Facebook have less than 10,000 users, with 62% having less than 1,000."
Submission + - Generating a CAPTCHA of your email address (jgc.org)
JohnGrahamCumming writes: "Web crawlers that search for email addresses on web sites are a big problem. My simple and free email image generator service generates a randomized image containing your email adddress. Simply copy and paste the relevant HTML to your web site to get a human-readable image that contains your email address but hides it from web crawlers."
Submission + - 10 Procrastination Avoidance Tips for Techies
kierny writes: Dice.com runs an article on 10 tips for avoiding procrastination. According to researchers, almost everyone procrastinates, and up to 20% of people do so chronically. Overcoming the tendency to procrastinate is especially difficult for techies, give that technology — while boosting productivity — also leads us to distraction, and distractions — Flickr, Skype, IM'ing, BlackBerries — stoke our desire to procrastinate. To help, a leading industrial psychologist recommends a number of techniques to avoid honing your art of delay, from deactivating email notification and killing short-cut buttons, to banishing the Dew and getting separate PCs for work and home.
Submission + - Interview with a social networking phisher
An anonymous reader writes: RSnake over at ha.ckers.org posted an interview with a social networking phisher. The phisher claims to have stolen over 20 million accounts, and makes thousands of dollars a day. The phisher talks about how he does it. It's amazing how social networking is the new conduit for identity theft.
