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Here's a new word that will freak you out: Firesheep

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Oct 25, 2010

It's a Firefox extension that lets you easily eavesdrop on people. It reads/steals cookies from users on unsecure connections and masquerades as...

Posted In: firesheep, gadgets, privacy, social media

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Facebook offers statement on latest privacy loophole

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Larissa Anderson

Oct 22, 2010

We contacted Facebook for our story, Facebook outs gays to advertisers. While they didn't get back to us in time for our deadline, we did hear back...

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Germans can Opt Out of Google Street View

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Oct 21, 2010

But a vast majority don't. Out of more than 8 millions German households photographed by Google only 240,000 have said they would like their homes...

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De-Facebook the web

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Larissa Anderson

Oct 20, 2010

9 hours ago, a Google engineer tweeted: "After more privacy bad news, I wrote a Chrome extension to stop Facebook from following you around the web...

Posted In: Facebook, privacy, social media

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ZeuS imitating Conficker

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Oct 15, 2010

There's a whole lot of tech jargon in this story that I'll spare you but the important thing to know is that the ZeuS computer worm, which has been...

Posted In: conficker, privacy, security, world, worm, zeus

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It's a Facebook scares the daylights out of you triple shot!

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Oct 12, 2010

On tomorrow's show we're talking about the new Facebook groups. You can make one, you can add friends to it without getting their permission first...

Posted In: Facebook, privacy, social media

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Deleted photos on Facebook aren't really deleted

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Oct 12, 2010

Ars Technica first wrote about this story a year ago and the problem hasn't really gone away so they've written about it again. At issue: what...

Posted In: Facebook, photography, privacy, social media

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Eric Schmidt is on Facebook even though he's not

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Oct 11, 2010

Facebook prides itself on getting each user to have only one account, with their real name, that really reflects who they really are. Tech Crunch...

Posted In: business, Facebook, Google, privacy, social media

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Justin Bieber dropped from Facebook

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Oct 8, 2010

But it's a different Justin Bieber. A guy with the same name as the teen pop star says he has had his Facebook account deleted without warning or...

Posted In: Entertainment, Facebook, Justin Bieber, privacy, social media

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Facebook Groups tripped up by the old opt-out problem

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Oct 8, 2010

So we know Facebook set up this new thing where you can make groups and sort your friends into those groups. The idea is that you can keep your...

Posted In: Facebook, privacy, social media, Web Culture

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