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Why single word passwords don’t work

A recent explode of a hole in microblogging website Twitter.com shows that users should never use single word passwords. When subscribing to a new web site you usually think of a word that no one else will think of has to do with you, thinking that they will never guess that a goth girl would [...]

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Tue, January 27 2009 » www » Comments Off

Burger King Facebook Stunt Sacrificed

Burger King’s latest publicity stunt…and we’re not talking about the Burger King perfume…on Facebook, who sites privacy concerns for it’s reason to close the application called “The Whopper Sacrifice”. The campaign asked for users of Facebook to drop 10 of their online “freinds” after registering for the application on the social networking site.  Once the [...]

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Thu, January 15 2009 » www » Comments Off

Presidential Freebies

With the inauguration of Barack Obama, our 44th President coming on January 20th let’s spend some time on some of the free stuff he’ll get as our commander in chief. As president of the United States Barack Obama will enjoy many free items, mostly due to the fact that his job (and others before him)is [...]

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Thu, January 8 2009 » misc. debris » Comments Off