Random Musings - Day #61

Excel
Microsoft finally fix Excel after some Trojan Horse have been attacking a particular vulnerability.

Facebook Issues
All kind of reports about Facebook have been coming out. You can gain a lot of details from facebook groups and friends. Because of trust that inherit. A psychologist says, "get off facebook and get a life" and also a girl got fired for calling her job boring.

EULA
What happens if a cat clicks on an agreement.

Vimto
Looks like the Police are getting desperate in that they are now stealing vimto.

Private calls
You can spoof and make your calls truly private according to spoofcard. Conversely, you could unmask blocked calls

Listening
Hmm Listening is everything, particularly when it is active.

Careful what you say...

I remember an old work colleague telling me, "Look I'm going to tell you something really important about work but I'll tell you later". The reason I found out later was that you never know who was on board that train from London. And you know he is right. When you are in public, you represent a number of things, yourself, your family, your religion, your country and your workplace. You have to be careful what you say. Admittedly, you are not likely to be famous and no-one is likely to care. But people will overhear and remember things like anger, swearing and anything illicit. I remember from a kid's story that the 'corn has ears' and can pass messages when the wind blows through the cornfields.

I am a firm believer in keeping a low profile and not drawing too much attention to oneself. You will always leak information about yourself but you can certainly control the amount you give. The little information you give, the less information people have to use against you and chances of such things of id theft happening become slimmer.

Similarly that's why I am not keen on social networks, I mean all the data going into the databases. For example check out: mobuzz on facebook and does what happens in the facebook stay in the facebook
Now I do have a myspace and a facebook but I am trying to leak as little information as possible. The only correct thing you should need is an email address. But again in a public arena, with data bound to be logged, you do still have be careful what you announce. Hmmm is everything we say logged? I mean I was a bit mortified to release all my gtalk discussions was logged within gmail. I mean all your most intimate conversations are logged if someone broke into this feature then that would cause all kinds of brown stuff to hit the fans. Can we trust yahoo or hotmail in the same vein?

Referring to the mobuzz video once more, amazon and ebay appear to store information about you and that's become more apparent with the fact that you cannot close your accounts with them....

So in summary, be careful what you reveal about yourself...
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY!!!