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Why displaying your friends list on social networking sites is a bad idea

Rowan — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:57:17 +0000

This is obvious, but also clever in the way of many clever things in that the attack is only obvious after it’s been explained to you. In short, if an attacker sucessfully impersonates someone you know, or gives you the impression you may / should know them, they may be able to exploit you.

Like many [...]

Anonym.OS alternatives? – xB Machine

Rowan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:54:08 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I was wondering on what happened to Anonym.OS. After a little searching around I came across xB Machine.

Xerobank appear to be one of those “secure browsing for a fee” organisations offering browser plugins and networks in order to protect your privacy while on the web in exchange for a fee. [...]

Whatever happened to Anonym.OS?

Rowan — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:05:09 +0000

Roll your mind back to the beginning of 2006 and you might remember Anonym.OS the idea of which was that you could pop a CD into your coffee cup holder, reboot and have nice (relatively) secure and anonymous browsing via TOR in a nice locked down BSD session. My mind is a little hazy on [...]

New “personal search” sites – what’s the big deal?

Rowan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:30:53 +0000

Article on the BBC about search sites indexing information from social networking sites as well as the usual sources such as websites and newsgroups.

The interesting thing is that these sites don’t really change anything – yes they provide a “picture” of sorts of a person’s dalliances online that is accessible to the ordinary person but [...]