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Monthly Archives: September 2008

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 e-mail, Test | 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 brother, Security, Test | 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 Family, Idiot, Sad, Security, windows | 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 design, e-mail, Friends, I want, photos, Picture, Security, Sites, Twitter, Updates | Comments (0)

Online Activity for 2008-09-22

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September 22, 2008 – 11:59 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Lifestream Archive | Tagged del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Friends, Google, Google Reader, I want, Links, linux, Live Journal, Music, Myspace, Plugin, Quotes, Sad, Security, Sites, TV, Twitter, Vox, windows, Wordpress | Comments (0)

Web Companies Today Are On Top Of Customer Service – Traditionals Take Note

Image from here Because of my article about removing certain feeds from my lifestream, it prompted an e-mail from Iminta. I just received an email back from Iminta saying ” I just wanted to know if there was anything that we (Iminta.com) could do to make the service more useful for you?”. I replied back …

September 22, 2008 – 1:51 pm | By Creeva | Posted in Technology | Tagged e-mail, photos, Plugin, SEF, Sites | Comments (4)

Had to Remove Some Sites From My Lifestreaming Page

Picture from here It seems some fo the RSS aggregations sites I use (Profilactic, Iminta, Friendfeed, etc.) generated too much data and I had to remove them from my lifestream page displaying their latest updates. The problem wasn’t the amount of data on my lifetream page per say, but in the fact that I generate …

September 22, 2008 – 10:43 am | By Creeva | Posted in Personal Writing | Tagged Crosspost, photos, Picture, Sites, Test, Updates, Wordpress | Comments (0)

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