Jan 27
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 choose something like “sunshine” as a password. It’s the people that don’t know you that can get into your accounts as well.
In early January of 2009 Twitter.com was broken into by someone using a brute-force attack to gain access to a administrator of the site. Until the attack, Twitter allowed users to continue trying passwords on account. Other sites will allow a user try to gain access three times and then shut the account down to allow a cool down period. The brute-force attacked used every word in the dictionary until “happiness” worked on the account.
written by tom
Jan 15
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 10 freinds were dropped the users would be rewarded with a free Whopper sandwich at Burger King.
Since the launch of the application a week ago 233,906 people were removed as friends from 82,771 people. Facebook cites privacy concerns for removing the application for the site. On Facebook users expect some level of privacy, says the social networking site.
Under the “Whopper Sacrifice” dropped friends were notified that they were removed by the hungry users. This is counter to Facebook’s terms of service. Facebook has said they tried to deal with the application’s developers for a solution that did not involve the notofication of users getting dropped.
written by tom
Jan 08
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 not an easy one. Once sworn into office an residing in the White House he will enjoy for free:
- Ball Point pens
- Personal stationary
- High speed internet access (for the residence of the White House as well)
- 64 channel cable compliments of the cable company that is the provider in Washington DC.
- Free meals (anytime of day or night) and snacks.
- Wake up calls, and not just the one’s Sen. Clinton talked about during the campaign.
- Mints and hard candy.
- Local and international calling.
- Free, first-run movies compliments of Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
- M&Ms in special boxes with the Presidential Seal on them.
- Free Coca-Cola (donated by the company)
- Free Pepsi (donated by the company)
written by tom