Brown fingerprints wanted as Phorm bungles again
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- Brown fingerprints wanted as Phorm bungles again
- Raiders schedule: a first-blush take
- ‘Suicide’ Internet search turns up ‘how to’ advice:…
- Libraries far from dead
- How to spot — and stop — a corporate spy
- Editor’s Blog | Eric Knorr | TAG: Web 2.0 | InfoWorld
Brown fingerprints wanted as Phorm bungles again
Register – Apr 15, 2008
Editing their Wiki article like this was a stupid move in my opinion. TimI never ever EVER thought I would say this but I’m a big man and I can do it without even wincing. ****************Well Done Wikipedia – preventing Phorm’s attempted manipulation of their entry to cloud the facts and silence their critics is credit to the ideals by which Wikipedia is supposed to work. ****************I feel dirty now. Mike CrawshawI guess it really just highlights just how technically savvy the Phorm clowns are that they thought they would be able to get away with this unnoticed… Mike CrawshawI guess it really just highlights just how technically savvy the Phorm clowns are that they thought they would be able to get away with this unnoticed. Will anyone at BT et al now ponder if this glaring lack of technical acumen might perhaps be a sign that the company isn’t capable of being trusted with their customers private data after all? Perhaps not. IvorI know El Reg readers don’t have the best opinion of Wikipedia. But I think we can all agree that this wasn’t just underhand it was idiotic. About as subtle as swanning into the Guardian’s office and trying to edit a hack’s article on your company using their computer. While they’re still sitting at it. You can influence a Wikipedia article one way or the other especially positively.
Raiders schedule: a first-blush take
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 15, 2008
Panthers receiver Steve Smith vs. Go do your homework on wikipedia then grab some popcorn for this matchup. 16: at Miami Dolphins 10 a. In a remember-when moment we could see Russell face off against 2007 mentor Josh McCown.
‘Suicide’ Internet search turns up ‘how to’ advice:…
Tehran Times – Apr 15, 2008
Just under half of the sites provided some information about methods of suicide while almost a fifth were for dedicated suicide sites half of them actively encouraging promoting or facilitating the taking of one’s life. verall Google and Yahoo retrieved the highest number of dedicated suicide sites whereas MSN had the highest number of prevention or support sites and academic or policy sites. In addition the three most frequently occurring sites were all pro-suicide while the information site Wikipedia was fourth. “”How to”" sites are not illegal in most countries and are not often caught by search engine filters.
Libraries far from dead
Denver Post – Apr 15, 2008
There won’t be any libraries. It will all be on the Internet. ” Could it really be I wondered? Could our public libraries — brainchild of Benjamin Franklin’s philosophical society — be killed off by Google and Wikipedia? Today I am still employed with a local public library and I know firsthand that public libraries aren’t dead. They aren’t even wheezing. April 13-19 is National Library Week so let’s take stock: The U. has more public library branches than it does McDonald’s restaurants and Americans go to their libraries more than twice as often as they go to the movies.
How to spot — and stop — a corporate spy
InfoWorld – Apr 15, 2008
How to stop them: Physical inspection of the computer is the only way to detect a keystroke logger Wood says. Because of the impracticality of doing that one company that Wood knows of now glues all its keyboards into the system unit. PhishingAs defined by Wikipedia phishing is a form of social engineering in which spies use a collection of techniques to manipulate people into releasing information (such as passwords) or performing actions that compromise confidential data such as clicking on a link that enables someone else to remotely control a machine. In fact the SANS Institute identifies phishing as one of the biggest Internet security risks. For example a spy might call the help desk from a pay-as-you-go mobile phone claim to be working at home and request that a new username and password be sent as a text message to his phone. And some spies employ what the SANS Institute calls “spear phishing” in which they send individual employees highly targeted e-mail messages that include specific information designed to make the messages look genuine. For instance a request for usernames and passwords might appear to be from the head of human resources.
Editor’s Blog | Eric Knorr | TAG: Web 2.0 | InfoWorld
InfoWorld – Apr 15, 2008
0 A month or so ago I was sitting in traffic listening to an NPR interview with Jon Spector co-author of We Are Smarter Than Me a new book about the wisdom of the crowd. Not only was the book about that topic it was that topic: Spector was just one of thousands of participants in the creation of wiki-generated book. Rather than have this wiki-wielding mob rehash the implications of Facebook or Wikipedia Spector and his principal co-author Barry Liebert herded this very large pride of cats in the direction of less trammeled ground: how businesses are using the wisdom of the crowd to garner ideas opinions and other valuable material. Not a bad idea for a story. Which is precisely where our new.
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