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WikiLeaks Pulls A Twitter; Shares Donor Email Addresses
For the love of all things that are holy, people really need to learn how to use BCC. Just yesterday we wrote about Twitter giving away 186 rejected job applicant email addresses and now WikiLeaks has given away 58 potential donor email addresses. The irony of this of course is that WikiLeaks is an "uncensorable Wikipedia [...]
Continue reading...Epic Fail Whale, Twitter Releases Job Applicant Emails
18. February 2009
In yet another epic fail by the company who brought you the fail whale Twitter has exposed the email addresses of 186 rejected job applicants. Someone should really teach Krissy Bush how to use the BCC function of Outlook. This easily avoidable security breach by a Twitter employee comes just six weeks after another one [...]
Continue reading...Facebook Loses, User Rights Have Epic Win
18. February 2009
A couple days ago we wrote about Facebook’s new Terms of Service where they took it upon themselves to own all of the content you upload, even if you chose to delete the content or your account. Well, today after tens of thousands of protests from Facebook users and privacy advocates around the world Facebook [...]
Continue reading...All Your Base Are Belong To… Facebook?
16. February 2009
It seems Facebook is back to their evil empire ways again by updating their Terms of Service. In the latest version of the ToS Facebook has decided that it should completely own everything you do. In previous versions of the terms of service Facebook only had "worldwide license" on all of your content that you [...]
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19. February 2009
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