Just say no to these prompts. There’s no need a Facebook application has any need to email you directly bypassing the “safe” realm of what Facebook already offers. Applications that need to contact you can already do so via your in box, application counters, and emailing you via Facebook’s email proxy. (A proxy which protects [...]
Posts Tagged ‘security’
Google’s Security Updates…
January 13th, 2010
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Google seems to be rolling out an interesting pack of security updates for their sites. The only official announcement I’ve seen is for Gmail, but I’d expect this to come for many other services. Currently a lot of Google services work fine with https (docs, calendar, blogger.com) but none seem to offer the same default [...]
Don’t Trust Facebook’s Photo Privacy At All
November 22nd, 2009
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You constantly hear about things happening to people because of things on facebook. Mostly pictures and how certain people who probably shouldn’t be able to see them somehow managed to see them. And it goes sort of like this. I have a photo album called ‘Pets‘ and this album on Facebook. This album has the [...]
GeoLocation Technology is Frightening Me.
August 23rd, 2009
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Firefox 3.5 added support for “My Location”; Google Maps added a feature “Show My Location.” One random day I thought I’d try it out and see how well it does. I’m only using a laptop with no real GPS technology built in. I have a phone, but it doesn’t support anything fancy. It’s just a [...]
Password Restrictions are Bad
August 18th, 2009
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I’ve had it up to here (imagine a 6 foot guy reaching above his head) with corporate any sites that insist on slapping you with a password restriction. I’m talking about the infamous “Your password must be between 5 and 10 characters” Or other good ones such as “Your password must contain a number and [...]
