The security mess that is Gawker

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There’s a great write-up on Forbes about the recent Gawker 0wnge, let’s see, they were using 3 year old linux kernels, DES for password encryption, apparently no auditing of what users were using for their passwords since, “1,958 Gawker users’ password was ‘password’.“, and that’s not even all of the problems. The fun part is… Read more »

HOWTO set Facebook privacy settings

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While I’m working on a Facebook inspired privacy discovery project, I need to highly recommend that everyone take the time to review their the official Facebook privacy settings page to understand how data about you is used and shared, but in a nutshell Facebook tells us: Your name, profile picture, gender and networks are always open to everyone. We… Read more »

School spies on student, busts him for…eating candy

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UPDATE: it looks like this case has been settled, Pennsylvania school settles laptop webcam spying suits for $610,000 -but- Less than a third of that will go to the students. “A total of $185,000 will be put in trust for the students. Their lawyer will receive $425,000.” Today fak3r from fak3r.com and Matt from Obtuseview.com are… Read more »