nathan hammond

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 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 ...

I realize now that the last time I wrote about this that I really was working much harder than I needed to be and that my ideas weren't nearly nefarious enough. Running everything through proxies on my end works, but requires a silly amount of effort. What I really needed to do was to have everybody ...

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote what turned out to be a pretty popular bookmarklet for downloading YouTube videos. Last month YouTube announced adding 1080p as a playback format. Catching wind of that a few days ago, I decided I'd go back and check to see if they still worked. Nope. I guess that betrays ...

As I don't want to simply "out" somebody on the Internet, I'm seeking a volunteer for my next post. My goal is to show that we have no expectation of privacy in this modern era and that any sufficiently motivated person can find a non-trivial amount of information about you. I plan to do this by ...