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For more in the "What do they know?" department…

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I shared with you last week Google’s Social Circle, to demonstrate how Google maps you’re social network. You can also see all the data Google keeps on you here. Make of it what you will.

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August 9th, 2010 | Category: Google Apps, Privacy | Leave a comment

Robin Sage revisited

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I recently blogged about a ComputerWorld interview with Tom Ryan who posed as cyber-hacking ingenue, Robin Sage, to see what kind of friends Robin could connect to in the intelligence business. This experiment, while unscientific, had the potential to reveal some interesting data points on how people connect, trust, and accept identities.

Accordingly, Mr. Ryan delivered his findings at the BlackHat conference a couple of weeks ago. My friends over at SecurityCurve posted a disappointed review of the talk.

It’s not that the discussion didn’t lay out how Tom Ryan did what he did – oh sure, there was plenty of that. He even had the woman whose picture he pilfered in attendance…. Continue reading: Robin Sage revisited

August 9th, 2010 | Category: Facebook, idnetity, SecurityCurve, socila media, Twitter | Leave a comment

I’m a Google social butterfly

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Check out your Social Circle to see who Google links you to. This info is complied using:

For the full link URL : http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/search/social#socialcircle

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August 7th, 2010 | Category: Google Apps, social networks | Leave a comment

The Business of Online Ads and Browsers

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The Wall Street Journal recently published a few articles on Online Privacy issues. In “Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy,” the article points out that today’s browser business is primarily in support of advertising sales:

As online advertising grows more sophisticated, companies playing prominent roles in consumers’ online experiences have discovered they have access to a valuable trove of information. In addition to Microsoft, such companies include search-engine giant Google Inc., iPhone maker Apple Inc., and Adobe Systems Inc., whose Flash software makes much of the Internet’s video, gaming and animation possible. These companies now have a big say in how much information can be collected about individual users.

The article details the internal… Continue reading: The Business of Online Ads and Browsers

August 2nd, 2010 | Category: Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Privacy | Leave a comment

Will the real Robin Sage please stand up?

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“I had access to e-mail and bank accounts. I saw patterns in the kind of friends they had. The LinkedIn profiles would show patterns of new business relationships.”

This is a quote from a ComputerWorld interview with Thomas Ryan, a security professional who created a fake persona to see how much information he could access via social networks. He stacked the deck by creating a young, cute, and highly intelligent woman, Robin Sage, and put her out on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The flirtatious Will the real Robin Sage please stand up?

August 2nd, 2010 | Category: cyberseurity, Facebook, LinkedIn, social networks, Twitter | Leave a comment
 
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