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Category Archives: Security
FaceBook and Privacy
There’s a lot to like about social network services and sites, at least when they let you choose what you want to share, and who you want to share it with. FaceBook has been steadily degrading their Privacy policies to … Continue reading
Turnitin Sued
My friend Dawno alerted me to this story about anti-plagiarism service Turnitin.com being sued for copyright violation by four students. Turnitin is a service contracted by universities and schools. Faculty submit student papers for analysis by Turnitin which compares the … Continue reading
Death Threats are Not OK
Blogger and UI expert, Kathy Sierra, had to cancel her talk at the Etech conference, because of really really nasty death threats, and threats of sexual assault. You can read about it here. There are fairly well-known “A-list” bloggers skirting … Continue reading
CAPTCHA and the Non-Standard User
In the last year or so a number of sites that offer a service or interact with readers via comments have started using images as a way to authenticate users as living people rather than a piece of software. These … Continue reading
MacInTouch on CMS
There’s what looks like a very useful discussion of CMSs on Macintouch. It’s mostly written from a Mac OS X perspective, but many of the points are platform agnostic.
