Firesheep Evolved
Shorter but not necessarily sweeter: Idiocy
Firesheep
Short and sweet: a Firefox extension that exposes the fact that login cookies are transacted unencrypted for a lot of the biggest social networking sites -- meaning that you can…
Facebook Privacy: Gay Users Outed to Advertisers
Article via Ars Technica in which researchers discovered that Facebook may inadvertently be outing gay users to its advertisers. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/more-privacy-headaches-for-facebook-gay-users-outed-to-advertisers.ars
Wall Street Journal contin.
A new set of stories relating to Facebook and MySpace apps and identifiable information they share: Read about it here.
Chief Justice John Roberts doesn’t read EULAs either
In a recent appearance at Canisius College, Chief Justice John Roberts addressed two interesting questions from the floor. One concerned the issue of televised oral arguments. Roberts expressed concern about…
There’s One in Every Crowd
Right on time for Halloween, a spooky post reminding us that creepy people offline + creepy people online = creepy people across domains. It never hurts to remember to always…
More on Street View
So, there has been a fair amount of talk about Google's Street View faux pas. Apparently, the data breach was more significant than some had anticipated. Apparently, among the bits…
Facebook’s Lobbying
Probably a good idea to keep an eye on lobbying efforts. Not that we don't all do this anyway, but it's the kind of thing that can fall under the…
HTML5 and Mobile Tracking
From Ars Technica Article: "A New York-based mobile-web advertising company was hit Wednesday with a proposed class action lawsuit over its use of an HTML5 trick to track iPhone and…
Smart grid technology and privacy
Smart grid technology offers major improvements and efficiencies for our power system, creating a dynamically responsive grid that can do things like manage peak load energy consumption, optimize transmission routes,…