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FaceNiff makes Facebook hacking a portable, one-tap affair (video) — Engadget

This Android app listens in on WiFi networks (even ones encrypted with WEP, WPA, or WPA2) and lets you hop on to the accounts of anyone sharing the wireless connection with you. Right now it works with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Nasza-Klasa (a Polish Facebook clone), but developer Bartosz Ponurkiewicz promises more are coming. via […]

Remove your name and photo from LinkedIn Social Advertising Privacy Setting

If you are a user of LinkedIn and want to protect your privacy you may want to consider disabling their Social Advertising feature which gives them permission to use your name and photo in advertisements. Just do the following: 1) Click on your name in the upper right hand corner and click the Settings link. […]

‘War texting’ lets hackers unlock car doors via SMS – Computerworld

A classic case of manufacturers ignoring or oblivious to security concerns. ‘War texting’ lets hackers unlock car doors via SMS – Computerworld.

Table Hell vs. Div Hell

Today I revisited Smashing Magazine’s article, “Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?“, and was reminded how insightful it is. For anyone in web developement it’s a good read on how and when to use div or table tags and how to use them properly with CSS for both content and presentation.

iPhone app lets you track plane information

Plane Finder AR is an iPhone app which lets you point your phone at an airplane in the sky and it will report back details such as speed, source and destination locations, elevation, distance from YOUR phone, etc. Unfortunately the U.S. is poorly equipped with the technology to support this sort of thing when compared […]