Daily Archives: September 23, 2008

Online Activity for 2008-09-23

My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. Yesterday 1:05am Creeva posted an item on Each Day. [Creeva.Com] Online Activity for 2008-09-22 6:09am Creeva published 6 blog posts on MySpace. (Show Details) Online Activity for 2008-09-22 Online Activity for 2008-09-22 Get an E-Mail or Twitter Alert When a Company Changes …

September 23, 2008 – 11:59 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Lifestream Archive | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Palin Hacker Is Not Indicted …So Far……

According to Wired.com, the hacker who last week broke into Palin’s e-mail account has left the grand jury without an indictment.   Now the real question I have, how does a crime with such national exposure and high profile as this one go without punishment? The only logical thing I can come up with is they …

September 23, 2008 – 2:41 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Political, Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)

It Had to Happen Eventually – DHS Testing Pre-Crime Detection

First let’s start with something from Cory Doctorow‘s book Little Brother: If you ever decide to do something as stupid as build an automatic terrorism detector, here’s a math lesson you need to learn first. It’s called “the paradox of the false positive,” and it’s a doozy. Say you have a new disease, called Super-AIDS. …

September 23, 2008 – 2:21 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Security, Technology | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Pop-up Study Proves Users Will Click Anything

People in the security world were all pretty sure that users never paid attention to dialog boxes.   Ars Technica printed information about a study performed North Carolina State University that proves that the security professionals were correct.  Most users only want to get rid of the immediate annoyance and don’t read what is happening on …

September 23, 2008 – 1:18 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Get an E-Mail or Twitter Alert When a Company Changes is Privacy or Security Policy

Picture from here A couple weeks ago I was talking with a friend about an idea for a new web service.   The web service would have you enter in all the services and sites you use and have an account with online, and then send you a twitter alert when the policy changed and it …

September 23, 2008 – 10:04 am | By Creeva | Posted in Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)