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How Your Facebook Experience Changes Today

Dec. 9, 2009

The next time you visit your Facebook home page, you will be asked to review and update your privacy settings. This may occur today or over the next week, but the fact remains Facebook’s 350 million users will be required to do it.
Ruchi Sanghvi, Facebook’s product manager for privacy, explains the changes:
Facebook has always provided [...]

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Hacking Hotmail Accounts is Easy

Aug. 25, 2009

It is not a stretch, based on the following chart of Google keywords searched, to surmise people with hotmail email accounts are more susceptible to hacker attacks than other free webmail accounts.
Of 1,583 email addresses in my list of contacts, I observe 158 use yahoo.com addresses, 138 use gmail.com, and 30 use hotmail.com. (I assume [...]

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Be Careful Online: Big Brother is Watching

May. 8, 2009

The following text is a reproduction of my last blog post, titled, Or Pnershy Bayvar: Ovt Oebgure Vf Jngpuvat. Reactions were mixed. Jon Bishop deciphered it and commented in kind. Jillian York thought it was Icelandic. And Jeff Hurt is apparently unsubscribing from my blog feed as a result. So. Here is it again; and [...]

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GoDaddy Essentially Changes its Name to Big Brother

Apr. 20, 2009

Moments ago, I received the following email from GoDaddy regarding my contract with the registrar for several domains:
Dear Ari Herzog,
In accordance with our terms of service, please be aware that we have made a change in Section 4, Account Security. View details of this policy change.
If you have questions about our updated password policy, visit [...]

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Why Facebook Bans Must Stop

Feb. 20, 2009

There is a social problem when 55% of Australian workers call out their employers for banning access to Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites, according to yesterday’s report in the Courier Mail.
Unhappy employees are rebelling.
Almost one in three (28 per cent) hid their screen from their boss so they could network undetected; almost one-in-four [...]

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Transition Transparency Issue #3: Obama’s Foundation and ChoicePoint

Nov. 23, 2008

I’m confused.
Every source on the web cites the president-elect’s transition team as the Obama-Biden Transition Project, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.
So why does page 8 of the alleged job questionairre for Cabinet and other senior-level White House officials define the team as the Obama Transition Foundation?
I can’t find any search engine results that match this name:

Do [...]

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Obama Online: More To Transition Transparency Than Meets the Eye

Nov. 17, 2008

What does the nonprofit Obama-Biden Transition Project have in common with several taxpayer-funded government servers managed by the U.S. General Services Administration and the U.S. Congress?
How is a federal job application for high-level Obama Administration positions surpassing privacy laws that Facebook’s privacy policy does not allow?
Why is the Cluen Corporation, a privately-funded software firm, and [...]

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