Archive for the ‘Services’ Category.
June 17, 2010, 3:59 PM
About time. Click here for a read.
Two key paragraphs to notice:
Industry stakeholders were quick to weigh in about the FCC vote. Many have charged that the proceeding is a backdoor way to write net neutrality rules without a congressional mandate. Such rules would prevent broadband providers from favoring certain Internet traffic.
Changing broadband’s regulatory status is a “terrible idea,” Verizon’s top lobbyist, Tom Tauke, said in a statement. “Rather than attempting to make the new world of broadband fit into the regulatory scheme of the old telephone world, the FCC should acknowledge that this is an issue Congress should address.”
These statements definitely made my day. If it’s going to irritate Verizon then I’m sure it’s a step towards proper net neutrality.
May 23, 2010, 7:33 PM
Honestly..
pyrohawk.com is the domain serving this page up, so if you’re annoyed with this too I’d go grab some info by running a whois query. Domain privacy was not used.
I’m not the only one reporting on this. Hopefully Facebook does sort this out soon, because it has become quite the eyesore. Maybe a “See more” button would be suited for longer “liked” pages?
May 1, 2010, 11:30 PM
ettercap is a little tool I’ve been playing with the past few days, along with metasploit. For anyone who has never heard of either of these tools, give them a shot in a test environment. What they can do is pretty scary stuff.
And yes, I do not care if you know my internal network IP for my laptop. Or one of freenode’s servers for that matter. However, in the last few examples I blurred out my IRC nick and MAC addresses, because I do care about those.
February 26, 2010, 12:27 PM
I recently had to play with LogMeIn.com’s services for a class, and began thinking about the service’s security. Yes, they state they use encryption. Yes, they provide the ability to use one time passwords. But are they really secure? I guess I am reluctant to trust third parties with access to my computers, but hey, better safe than sorry.
If anyone does have any experiences with them I wouldn’t mind hearing them. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but the cat had nine lives anyway.
December 10, 2009, 2:34 PM
Alright, I’ll confess. I do have a Facebook account, even though I am a bit of a privacy nut. However, unlike most users I have employed the privacy settings to protect me from the average data mining theif.
Although it looks like it’s about to get a bit harder for these folks to get the data they want easily. Facebook just popped up a wizard today for me as I logged in, one that allowed me to change my privacy settings. Naturally I really didn’t change anything, because I already had my settings perfected, but this looks like it will help with eliminating most users privacy issues. Sure, the more hidden options like preventing your account from being indexed by search engines isn’t there, but maybe this wizard will help people realize it does exist.
Props to Facebook for making an effort, even if it is very small.
