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Does what happen in Facebook stay in Facebook?

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 07:46 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

OK, this video from 2006 may be a little overblown, but conspiracy theories aside there are some questions worth asking here. Particularly when you consider the connections the author draws between some of Facebook’s investors. We’re not talking just about marketing firms here, we’re talking about CIA and DARPA. It’s a little tin-foil hat, but come on, in a country where something like the Total Information Awareness Project can be proposed by our defense department, anything is possible.

The video is well done so I will forgive the author the constant errors of referring to Facebook as “the Facebook” and asking the audience “do you have a Facebook?” :-)

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OAuth Discovery 1.0 Draft 2 released with support from Ma.gnolia, Fire Eagle and Satisfaction

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 @ 10:07 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

“OAuth Discovery, simply, is an extensible, machine-readable format for identifying OAuth-protected resources and service endpoints. Take a look at the provided example or Ma.gnolia’s actual discovery profile to get an idea for what these documents look like. ”

OAuth = Awesome-sauce

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Introducing the Google Contacts Data API

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 21:39 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Finally, Google has provided a secure way of accessing contact information from a Google account. I for one will be happy to no longer have to hand my password over to a third party to access my account data. It’s also nice to have a standardized way of getting that data that does not depend on screen scraping.

Kudos to Google for releasing this much needed API!

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Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, February 7, 2008 @ 15:37 CST by Daniel Andrlik

The title of this Washington Post article fails to do the material justice. This has to do with U.S. customs officials that have been requiring travelers to turn over laptop passwords (booting their laptops to verify it is correct), copying web history information and occasionally confiscating laptops.

I wish I could say that I didn’t believe this was happening, but this is becoming an all too familiar sort of story in our country.

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Command Line Warriors : Encrypt Your Home Directory

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, December 8, 2007 @ 20:25 CST by Daniel Andrlik

This is a really great guide for setting up your /home directory as an encrypted partition in Linux. Since I’m always a bit data paranoid, and am a sucker for any kind of software tinkering, I think I’ll give this a try on my laptop when I get it back from being repaired.

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Unit Structures: We’re not sheep, you’re just not paying attention

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Friday, December 7, 2007 @ 08:43 CST by Daniel Andrlik

“[Bloggers] look at Facebook’s growing numbers, see the impressive trends, and conclude we don’t care about privacy or anything else Facebook does. This logic is flawed, of course - it’s sort of like saying any American who doesn’t renounce their citizenship and move to Canada agrees with President Bush.”

I’m so tired of new media people saying privacy is dead and that users are sheep. Most of that is because people in new media have as much an understanding of the average user as I have of what it’s like to be an astronaut or spy. We’ve got plenty of ideas about it, but in general we’re almost certainly wrong.

This post from Fred Stutzman, an academic who has been watching Facebook usage patterns since before it opened up to everyone, begins to poke some significant holes in the frankly bullshit theory that users don’t care about privacy and are just a bunch of sheep.

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OAuth Core 1.0

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 @ 22:19 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Final spec for OAuth. I like a lot of what I see, and I’m looking forward to seeing this getting used widely as an alternative to consumers storing login credentials.

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The wonderful horrible life of Facebook users and their data (or, “data hogs get slaughtered”)

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Sunday, November 25, 2007 @ 17:59 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Excellent post by Jason Calacanis on Facebook’s current advertising strategy.

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Whip Out The Tinfoil Hats, The iPhone Phones Home

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Monday, November 19, 2007 @ 08:33 CST by Daniel Andrlik

You would think that companies would be smarter after all the crap people gave Microsoft about “phoning home.” Admittedly, the overwhelming majority of companies will do what ever they can get away with, but you would think Apple should have known someone would figure this out pretty quickly.

The fact that it specifically sends back your financial/banking habits and potentially personal browsing patterns, has an audacity that should be raising shouts of indignation. It remains to be seen how the owners of the so-called “Jesus-phone” will react.

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Unit Structures: Weinberger on Facebook Privacy

Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, November 15, 2007 @ 10:38 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Beacon is looking worse and worse. I’m getting the feeling that Facebook really screwed this up. They need to fix it soon before they seriously freak out their users.

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