people search sure is a controversial topic…while some might find a search engine capable of automatically syndicating all available information on a person creepy, to say the least, others welcome the concept, arguing, that all this information has been online & and for the most part indexed anyway. I belong to the latter, so on [...]
everyone even slightly interested in MMOG SecondLife, probably already heard yesterdays bad news: an official security announcement on Linden Labs (creators of SL) reported a hack of SL’s database earlier this week. Linden Labs admits that user-data (account-names, reallife-names and contact-information) was compromised, which is why all residents are required to re-new their passwords in [...]
freenigma is a firefox-extension adding GPG-encryption to GMail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. users familiar with cryptography can easily introduce less paranoid cautious friends to the service by using the invitation-feature. freenigma is currently rolling out beta-accounts.
Scott Schiller built this prove-of-concept, using javascript to sniff on visitors browser-histories. using the CSS pseudo-class visited:, any script can determine if a user has visited a particular URL before. this issue of course is many years old, but Schiller uses it in a fun way: by checking your browser-history for various web2.0′ish websites, his [...]
SLStats is another interesting example of connecting Second Life to external web-services. SLStats requires users to wear a virtual watch (get it at the SLBuzz Store), which is scripted to send statistical data like current location, online-time and nearby inhabitants to SLStats’ database. all recorded profiles are available to the public, which seems to be [...]
seems like AOL’s recently shattered public image (see this recently leaked recording of a disastrous support-phonecall, or this story about a woman unable to cancel the AOL-connection of her dead father) just got another big crack today: in a blatant attempt to gain momentum among web-related research and science, AOL admittedly released search-profiles of 500.000 [...]
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