Cody Taylor

An angry IT worker who lost his job after lying about his qualifications, has been convicted of hacking into his former employer’s network.

holy_calamity writes “Researchers from Google have written a paper about how social networks can undermine privacy. The most interesting scenario they discuss is ‘merging social graphs’ — when correlating multiple social networks makes it possible to reveal connections that a person has intentionally kept secret (PDF). For example, it may be possible to work out that a certain LinkedIn user is the same person as a MySpace user, despite their attempting to keep their profiles separate. The Google solution is to develop software that screens new data added to a social network, attempting to find out if it could be fodder to such data mining.”

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Grant Robertson from Download Squad has proposed to his girlfriend Christina Warren (TUAW and Download Squad) on TWITTER. That’s right. On Twitter. Social networking has come a long way.

‘I have yet to see any widespread nationwide coverage on the New Year’s execution style murder of Oscar Grant by a Bay Area Rapid Transit – BART – police officer. Somebody told me that they saw 5 minutes of coverage on CNN last night. I would think they would syndicate it across all networks by now.’

Anti-Globalism writes “A group of hippies is complaining that a recently installed WiFi mesh network in the UK village of Glastonbury is causing health problems. To combat the signals from the Wi-Fi hotspots, the hippies have placed orgone generators around the antennae.” Although there have been many studies that show no correlation between WiFi and health issues the hippies say, “Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”

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The new system, which is now in place, monitors the amount of downstream traffic a user consumes and not what that traffic is actually composed of. The system first monitors the traffic on the cable modem termination system (CMTS) ports. If a particular CMTS port is deemed as “congested,” any users on that port who are “identified as a primary ….