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This guy analysed what data Buzzfeed is collecting about you - and you won't believe what he found… Paid Members Public
Dan Barker’s been poking at the tracking javascript on Buzzfeed, and found some very interesting data being captured from quizzes [http://barker.co.uk/buzzfeediswatching]: > In other words, if I had access to the BuzzFeed Google Analytics data, I could query data for people who got to the
Saying Goodbye to Gmail Paid Members Public
Last night I switched the e-mail hosting provider behind @onemanandhisblog.com from Gmail to Hover’s e-mail service [https://www.hover.com/email]. Why? Two reasons mainly: * I very rarely use webmail. Maybe I’m just showing my internet age, but the majority of my e-mail is done through Mail.
Journalists: do not use Hotmail Paid Members Public
Microsoft accesses a blogger’s e-mail without permission to track the source of a leak [http://recode.net/2014/03/20/blogger-psa-dont-use-microsofts-web-mail-to-receive-microsoft-leaks/] : > One of the revelations in this week’s case of a Microsoft worker who leaked pre-release Windows 8 software was that Microsoft accessed the Hotmail account of
Today we fight back against mass surveillance Paid Members Public
Many of you will have seen something like this when you visit my blog today: [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/02/fight-back-2-3519.html] And I’m far from alone. Here’s Antony Mayfield’s blog [http://www.antonymayfield.com/2014/02/11/against-mass-surveillance-what-will-you-do-today/] : [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/
Journalists: Encrypt Your E-mail Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/email-encryption.png] If you’ve been following the PRISM/Edward Snowdon revelations [http://www.theguardian.com/world/prism], you’ll be aware of how insecure online communications can be. If you’re a journalist, you more than likely have
When the FT got hacked Paid Members Public
Disarming honesty – and useful experience [http://labs.ft.com/2013/05/a-sobering-day/] – from Andrew Betts at FT Labs: > About 10 days ago, the hacker or hackers calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) carried out a very targeted cyberattack against the FT. We’re not the first to be
Twitter Hacked - passwords compromised Paid Members Public
Well, that was something to wake up to… Twitter has indeed been hacked, with 250,000 accounts exposed [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/02/02/twitter-confirms-that-it-was-hacked-and-250000-users-may-have-been-compromised/] , mine amongst them. > This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We
Bloggers, The TSA and Pressure on Sources Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2010/01/19256_239017416075_186636391075_3846705_425986_n-1549.html] Even in my quasi-social media isolation, I became aware that there was some sort of run-in happening between bloggers and the US Transport Security Administration (TSA), based on bloggers republishing a new directive in the
