Unmasking an Internet User, Piece by Piece
An impressive and impressively terrifying walk-through of the process of discovering all there is to discover about an internet user, starting with only their IP and email address.
Social Network Monitoring
From article: "New software released by Cisco Systems Inc. on Wednesday makes it much easier for banks, retailers, and other businesses -- including your employer -- to monitor the mountain…
Fantastic, intricate values-in-design study of cookie development
Since cookies have been kind of a theme recently, it seems appropriate to post this long essay on the history of cookie development (which includes a link to a contrarian…
Industry Insider: Defense of Behavioral Advertising Is Balderdash
A punchy run-down and send-up of the online advertising industry's poor response to recent criticism.
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…