Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Other cellphones can track you without your knowledge
Location Leaks on the GSM Air Interface: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~foo/research/docs/fookune_ndss_gsm.pdf
Monday, March 5, 2012
Study: Facebook profile beats IQ test in predicting job performance
Well, people DO data mine Facebook and they think they can even predict your I.Q.... well better post something intelligent:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/business/ci_20091488
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Linking Facebook and Match.com
This is a great example of cross-site inference. Mostly websites only think about their own privacy but the linking of innocuous data leaks might reveal powerful information!
Current Practices in Data Mining by Companies
While this post is not about online data and cybercasing, it gives you an example what is currenlty already done by companies:
US bars friends over Twitter joke
As this is a highly political post, you might ask yourself, why is this on a cybercasing blog?
The reason for this is that I don't interpret the article as an example of the stupidity of Government but as a really nice example of "people don't think about the actual outreach of their post when they post". Again: Think before you post!
The reason for this is that I don't interpret the article as an example of the stupidity of Government but as a really nice example of "people don't think about the actual outreach of their post when they post". Again: Think before you post!
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