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Mobile phone GPS a security risk? Only to those who follow you

June 25th, 2008 ·

Steven Hodson, in a post over on Mashable, describes security risks and the waste of information that mobile phone GPS use brings (when pinpointing and announcing our locations). He poses some extremely valid points in regards to announcing one’s geolocation via Twitter, Brightkite, or FriendFeed being useless noise.
Telling people via a highly conversational medium such [...]

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Tags: Etiquette · Facebook · Flying · FriendFeed · GPS · Geolocation · Jaiku · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Pownce · Security · Social Networking · Twitter · Wearing

Yahoo! security support update - HeartsongStudios.com

March 13th, 2008 ·

After a pretty bad experience with Yahoo!’s merchant services security support while getting HeartsongStudios.com online, the site is finally up and running. Yahoo! does a decent job at outsourcing their support to work-at-home representatives. The one I got, Max, was nice enough.
I’m glad it’s over… Now my father’s site can start working for him.

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Tags: HeartsongStudios.com · Security · Yahoo