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Comment There are already millions ... (Score 1) 338

by jabberwock (#37758390) Attached to: Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users
... more likely, tens of millions of fake profiles. People have multiple profiles to play games, for work and for play, for doing things on facebook or on the web that they don't want anyone who knows them to know about.

All it takes to get a Facebook account going is an email address.

If you think that a couple of dozen Facebook police are able to enforce using "real" information on 500 million accounts ...

Okay, good. Now you don't think that.

Comment EduHookUps IP for Sale (Score 1) 1

by jabberwock (#36190946) Attached to: EduHookUps.com Rebooting, Security an Issue
As of today, May 20: "The eduHookups source code, assets, and intellectual property (IP) are now available for sale. Please check the eBay listing for more details."

The eBay listing has a start bid at US $1,499.99 and a "Buy It Now" price of US $9,999.99. Gotta love the marketing: "Get an exclusive piece of a website that created an international news sensation!"

As defined here, site assets include:

* Source code * HTML/CSS layout * Logos, graphics, and branding * eduHookups Facebook Page and Twitter account credentials * Database contents and schema (does not include user data) * Various other files, including press releases, news clippings, promotional media, and letters

These materials are provided as-is without any warranty of merchantibility, functionality, or fitness for a particular purpose.

Following the auction, the winner will be sent a formal contract with terms detailing the transfer of the eduHookups site assets and IP. If the seller finds the terms unsatisfactory and does not agree, the seller's payment will be refunded and the items will be relisted.

Delivery of purchase will occur electronically via email.
Security

Submission + - EduHookUps.com Rebooting, Security an Issue (edenfantasys.com) 1

Submitted by
jabberwock
jabberwock writes: "EduHookUps.com, a sex-dating site started at the University of Chicago that has been spreading to campuses across the U.S. since March, is under new management and will effectively be starting over. News on the site indicates that the site, which has prided itself on providing anonymity, may not have been secure. “ all user data generated to date (posts, private messages, etc.) will be reset in the interest of privacy and security. The registration system will be re-enabled, and all current members will need to re-register.” SexIs magazine reports that the domain name was sold for $1,000."
Businesses

Submission + - This Tech Bubble is Different 3

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Tech bubbles happen, writes BW's Ashlee Vance, but we usually gain from the innovation left behind. But this one — driven by social networking — could leave us empty-handed. Math whiz Jeff Hammerbacher provides a good case study. One year out of Harvard, 23-year-old Hammerbacher arrived at Facebook, was given the lofty title of research scientist and put to work analyzing how people used the social networking service. Over the next two years, Hammerbacher assembled a team that built a new class of analytical technology, one which translated insights into people's relationships, tendencies, and desires into precision advertising and higher sales. But something gnawed at him. Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google, and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. 'The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,' he says. 'That sucks.' Silicon Valley historian Christophe Lecuyer agrees: 'It's clear that the new industry that is building around Internet advertising and these other services doesn't create that many jobs. The loss of manufacturing and design knowhow is truly worrisome.'
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - 100 million americans earn less than even me! (mybudget360.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I only earn $40,000/year. But I earn more than 66% of the workforce. The US is becoming India. What happens to a country when the average working man must turn to mistresses instead of hookers is anybody's guess.
Government

Submission + - US Government spying on T-Mobile VOIP subscribers?

Submitted by stavrica
stavrica writes: I found a new entry in my T-Mobile @Home Linksys routing table I hadn't seen before:

10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.3.4.186 / WAN (Internet)

Strange routes showing up uninvited in static routing tables is definitely a BAD THING, particularly on a firewall. An ARIN lookup on 7.3.4.186 shows it's owned by the DoD Network Information Center (DNIC).

The T-Mobile @Home router at my church routing table likewise shows the following similar entries:

10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.2.145.46 ppp0
10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.0 / 7.2.130.7 / ppp0

There is no way to remove these routes. Suddenly, re-flashing the Linksys firmware was beginning to seem like a really good idea. If only... It turns out that T-Mobile has been auto-updating the firmware on all their @Home routers, first to version 1.00.20 --and then to 1.00.21, prompting one poster to even beg:

Please for the love of GOD stop the auto updating, udnp completely fails making my whole pc run snail like... on .15 it's fine like it has been for ages, but i can only keep that on for about 5-10 minutes before it's updated again......

To mitigate this invasion of privacy, I split the 10.160.18.0 network into two subnets, and routed them to an unused private address:

10.160.18.0 / 255.255.255.128 / 192.168.255.123 / WAN (Internet)
10.160.18.128 / 255.255.255.128 / 192.168.255.123 / WAN (Internet)>

Can anyone else with a T-Mobile @Home Linksys VOIP router corroborate my observations? Both T-Mobile @Home routers are registered to my account. It's possible that I'm being monitored, but I doubt it.
Idle

Submission + - Free (Virtual) ... Uhhh ... Sex Acts (edenfantasys.com)

Submitted by jabberwock
jabberwock writes: Relax and enjoy, Slashdot. Yes, I know that porn is almost never news, hereabouts. But remember how we were all promised virtual sex, back in the '90s, along with jetpacks, flying cars and free fusion power?

It looks like another big leap forward. And I think we need geeks in Las Vegas next month to get out there and test, test, test.

I have no idea how I ought to to tag this story. But I *know* that "Steve Jobs" or "IPhone" would be so very wrong. Free Virtual You-Know-Whats

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