Privacy in the Modern Era Experiment Update

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Well, I've got three volunteers for my privacy experiment: a friend of mine I see at least every other week and have known since high school, a person who I met through a friend that I've spent some time with, and a person I've never met who is from the UK. I'll be getting back in ...

Facebook's Friend List Fail

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From Facebook: UPDATE on Thursday, Dec. 10: In response to your feedback, we've improved the Friend List visibility option described below. Now when you uncheck the "Show my friends on my profile" option in the Friends box on your profile, your Friend List won't appear on your profile regardless of whether people are viewing it while ...

Abusing Facebook's "Publicly Available Information"

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<sarcasm> I have to say, one of my favorite new features of Facebook is their mandated publicly available information. This is a great way to help me build out my data-mining operation by augmenting my data with Facebook's social graph. As an added bonus, if I find a particularly interesting target I can simply look up ...

Facebook's "Publicly Available Information"

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Yet another change on Facebook with regards to privacy and all I have are more grievances with the ever-so-gradual erosion of privacy within their network. The new policies surrounding what is and what isn't "publicly available information" make a mockery of the promised improvements to the privacy settings. What was previously public information by the election ...

Google Phonebook

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Google Phonebook is the Google product that even they don't want you to know about. To be able to search it, you have to know the URL, you can't directly link to it, and to enter the interface you must be linked to an already completed search, such as: http://www.google.com/search?pb=r&q=Nathan+Hammond. Even then at the bottom of ...