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  • Unforgivable: Ignorance and apathy about user privacy 

    21/05/2010 01:00
    Unforgivable: Ignorance and apathy about user privacy can no longer be tolerated
    The Wall Street Journal’s discovery about the shady privacy practices of some of the world’s largest social networks came as a surprise and probably won’t help any of the big names they mentioned. In what the WSJ unfortunately characterized as a ‘privacy loophole’ exploited by such organizations as Facebook, MySpace, Hi5 and Digg, the social [...]
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  • Give Google a break 

    17/05/2010 12:00
    Give Google a break
    Yesterday’s revelation that Google’s StreetView cars collected more than just anonymized pictures of buildings and cars (and some comical situations) came as a surprise to many, including regulatory bodies in a number of countries that are now considering miscellaneous lawsuits and penalties, according to the BBC.   To wit, the issue was that these ‘photographic [...]
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  • The Last Throes of Traditional Anti-Virus Software 

    11/05/2010 11:00
    The Last Throes of Traditional Anti-Virus Software
    It should come as no surprise to anyone that given the vast numbers of malicious software anti-virus companies are claiming to detect, the number of viruses out there is practically limitless. With the introduction of polymorphic viruses more than a decade ago, and the current practice of injecting specialized Trojans into known vulnerabilities, the combinations [...]
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  • Newsflash: Facebook doesn’t care about your privacy 

    07/05/2010 06:00
    Newsflash: Facebook doesn’t care about your privacy
    love how every other article about Facebook has some kind of privacy angle. As if Facebook, a site designed to share your information as broadly as possible, was also responsible for preserving people’s personal details under their control. All for free.  The latest privacy snafu allowed a confidentiality breach to occur with people’s Facebook [...]
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  • Scammers & fraudsters extend Holiday earnings at Haiti’s expense 

    19/01/2010 05:45
    Scammers & fraudsters extend Holiday earnings at Haiti’s expense
    As much as consumers look forward to Christmas every year, retailers salivate at the boost in revenue and its positive impact on earnings. No one enjoys the holidays more than criminals however, from petty scammers to organized crime groups whose tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue make up for months of preparation. [...]
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