Tag: security

Bookmarks for January 21, 2010

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Bookmarks for December 30, 2009

  • Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account [How-To]
    Tomorrow, I delete my facebook account. Their privacy settings are too fucking awful for me – I siply don't trust them, and on that basis, it's time to go. I've already deleted all the data that they hold, bar the notes (and those only remain because there isn't a bulk delete option), but tomorrow, I kick off the death of my facebook account. It actually feels kinda weird to completely deactivate something like that, but there we go.

Bookmarks for December 11, 2009

  • Airlock
    Mac App that allows locking/unlocking and other actions based on proximity of iphone. There's a potential problem with bluetooth related battery drain on the iphone here, but if they've somehow cracked that, then this could be very interesting/useful – not so much for the security tools, but more for the fact that I could them script for proximity, and use that to log my location through the day.
  • BBC News – Postcode data to be free in 2010
    About time. UK based locational services are about to get better. Or at least cheaper.
    Tags: maps, free, uk, postcode

Bookmarks for December 10, 2009

  • All the flim that's fit to flam.
    This guys work has been doing the blog rounds today. That's because it's ace. When his store re-stocks, I will buy a thing from him.
  • What deux yeux have teux deux teuxday?
    SLight annoying french spelling aside – if their iphone app is half as nice as their web app, and if they expose an api at some point soon, then I think Things may have been supplanted as my favourite to-do list manager. This is bloody lovely.
  • Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via JWZ)
    Essentially: whenever any of your friends posts an app, the developer of that app get all the data about *you* that they have access to. Facebook have completely fucked your privacy in the bin. I will be deleting my account at the end of the month, if they don't change it. (The only reason I'm not deleting it *today* is that I don't want to fuck people's social planning in the bin.) For refernce, after a bit of digging about in the privacy settings, despite the fact that I have my privacy locked down, under the new settings, here's what my friends were authorised to share about me, regardless of my profile settings: Personal info (activities, interests, etc.), Status udates,Online presence,Website,Family and relationship,Education and work,My videos,My links,My Notes,My photos,Photos and videos of me,About me,My birthday,My hometown. These setting were buried, and required extra password validaton to alter – they had gone out their way to make it hard. I'm done with them.

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