Salon: Did the FBI cook up a fake bomb plot?
Justin Elliot explains how the recent Washington Metro bomb plot case involved questionable use of a paid FBI informant. Story here.
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…