Ok so my roomate found this site tonight that… well… ummm…. damn I don’t know what to say. It’s hilarious, in my mind atleast because I’m open to peoples opinions and don’t get offended by what people have to say that easy. Maddox, a writer from Utah is a genius and has been getting over a million hits per month. He writes articles on anything and everything, as well as other mentionable things. Before I give you the link I must warn you that if you get offended easily you probably shouldn’t read his crude, rude, and badass words. Ok you’ve been warned => Maddox The Best Page In The Universe.
Facebooks personal privacy and security issues
Tonight I got borred and decided to do some messing about with Facebook to see what cookies Facebook was storing on my computer. I first opened my preferences pane in Firefox and went to security then clicked show cookies to bring up the cookies window. Cookies that get set on you computer are displayed in this window as soon as they are set so you can go to any site and see cookies being set in real time. I signed into Facebook and just started clicking every link I could within Facebook, photos, events, friends… you name it I clicked it. To my surprise there were more than 15 different advertissing/marketing/hidden sites saving cookies on my computer all with multiple cookies for each. All of these sites were nothing related to Facebook or any material you can find on Facebook. They weren’t subdomains, or ads.facebook.com type urls doing the “cookie setting”. This type of stuff raised a personal privacy issue in my mind and I instantly installed the Blocksite addon for Mozilla Firefox, then added all the sites that were listed in my cookies window. When I read about Facebook launching the Beacon app a few weeks ago without telling it’s users what it was all about, I asked the question… “If they are doing that? What else are they doing or hidding”? I know these cookies can’t do any damage to your computer…? Well I’m no computer engineer, but I do know they can track stuff. Stuff like how much you visit a site, what you visit and then send that info back to the application that created the cookie. So what kind of hidden things ARE you doing Facebook?
Update: Did you know that any photo or video you upload to Facebook, you loose all your rights to that media? Meaning Facebook can do anything they want with your photos or videos and you can’t do a lick about it.
Fuck you Facebook!
Absolutely no bubble in technology!
The Ricter Scales (A band from San Fransico) created this video to go along to there song “Absolutely no bubble in technology“. It’s some pretty good “wise-crackery” about all the emerging networking tech sites on the internet and the people who created them.
101 Ways to laugh your ass off
Jason Bartholme wrote up a hilarious post about how to annoy your co-workers. I think I completed a few of them just reading his post.
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