May
14

Off-Subject: Head, Neck and Back Pain

Johannes Ernst on May 14th, 2009

If you suffer from any of the above, or any pain at all, and haven’t come across the writings of Dr. Jolie Bookspan, I recommend highly you take a look. She just put something I wanted to get off my chest on her blog at Healthline. For somebody with an engineering background like me, I [...]

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May
14

Phriend Phishing in the Wild

Johannes Ernst on May 14th, 2009

[Additions in red in response to Bavo's comments.] Should have guessed that Phriend Phishing was first going to happen to somebody famous. Now, how could that have been prevented? What if: Twitter adopted OpenID as the only way of authenticating. Twitter showed the authenticated OpenID identifier instead of a (possibly made up) user handle on [...]

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May
4

Ben Laurie: “Why Privacy Will Always Lose”

Johannes Ernst on May 4th, 2009

Deducted meticulously, and hard to disagree with, he finds: The popularity of a social networking site will be in inverse proportion to the goodness of its privacy controls. Time to be depressed, or time to get on with the show?

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