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Monthly Archives: November 2007

More on Shelfari's Spamming

I’m seeing some referrals from this LiveJournal post by a member of the team behind Librarything regarding Shelfari’s unethical spamming strategy. When I wrote about Shelfari’s “confusing and deceptive” sign-up process last week, I did consider at the time that I was over-reacting, but now I see what a widespread problem Shelfari has caused. The [...]

Cadbury's Gorilla Ad

Via czajkowsk on IRC:

Amateurs Acting as Front-line Security Personnel

I’ve been subscribed to the security expert Bruce Schneier‘s blog for a long time now. He has always urged people to refuse to be terrorised, as he collected stories about a paranoid society that sends the SWAT team after Indian poetry professors for recycling paper, and can’t tell a bomb from a tape dispenser. Today, [...]