The attacks on MasterCard, PayPal and other sites underscore the ties between hacktivism and the growth of opt-in botnets. – The WikiLeaks controversy has spilled far beyond discussions of
classified documents into the realm of cyber-security, where reports
of denial-of-service attacks against everything from MasterCard to PayPal have flooded the press.
Behind those reports, though, is the growing issue
of opt-in b…
Twitter March 11 switched on its long-awaited location-sharing feature and made the service opt-in. Twitter’s geolocation feature, which works for Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome on Windows, tags users’ tweets based on where they are tweeting from. The way Twitter has done this should endear it to privacy hounds that get nervous about location-sharing services. Facebook, meanwhile, is set to launch its own location-sharing service for its 400 million users. The leading social network would do well to follow Twitter’s flexible approach to location.
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Twitter March 11 switched on its
long-awaited location-sharing feature and made the service opt-in.
Twitter’s geolocation feature tags users’ tweets based on
where they are tweeting from. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and his team believe
this additional layer of context will make …
