May 1, 2008
BBC has uncovered an exploit in the Facebook application system. They used the help of an experienced coder and created a mining application that looked like a “joke of the day” application. What this application did was not only steal your information such as phone numbers, place of work, etc.., but also steal the information of all your friends on your profile. What’s worse is that your friends don’t even have to download this specific application to become a victim, they just have to be in the infected user’s friend list. So you could be a victim of some type of identity theft, and you don’t necessarily have to do anything.
The BBC claim that because these applications are stored and managed by a third party company, malicious applications could easily sneak under their noses. That’s right, Facebook does not house all your applications, a third party company does. Also, most of these applications are automatically given the rights to go through all the aspects of your profile, including your friends, regardless of their security settings. Facebook says that if an application violated their terms of use, they could stop it from being published with their removal team. Well, they tried to recreate the same scenario with MySpace and they weren’t able to succeed. It is obvious that the Facebook system is flawed. You can’t expect to have a secure environment when you have a third party company taking care of business and a system where an application can access sections of your friends and your own profile without warning. This is almost as if someone got a virus through an email and everyone in their address book automatically got their computer infected.
February 27, 2008
0100 GMT while updating one of my websites , my house shook gently for five to 10 seconds with a short spell of significant vibration. The wardrobe doors banged during this period, which subsided to another five to 10 seconds and then peace again. I switched on the lights and came out on the street to see almost all of my neighbours standing outside their homes and wandering about on what just happened as alarms were going off.
Earthquake - my first experience since we never have them in mauritius ; I dont know about the magnitude neither of the epicentre but i presume it should be somewhere in the midlands.
Was it was the biggest earthquake to hit England since 1990 ?
February 1, 2008
RadioMoris.com Facebook Application
Displays songs playing on all the channels of RadioMoris.Com
February 1, 2008
I get the feeling that the iPhone is like most other Apple products; Elitist to the core, overly easy-to-use, and lacking in features that have become standard or trend but nevertheless Apple feels they don’t need. I guess also that I’m a bit biased, as I own an N95, and it has it’s bad points, just like all phones. The lack of a replacable battery in the IPhone is, however, incredibly worrying. With the N95, it’s battery isn’t wonderful, but if it runs out, you can carry a spare, and replace it within seconds. But an embedded battery would be very annoying. Not to mention downright dangerous if there were to be an emergency and your battery were to run out. OSX is pretty cool, and probably better than a Windows-enabled smartphone and probably much better than Symbian. But then again, is the iPhone’s OS open-ended? Also, touch screens aren’t for everyone , the lack of tactile buttons may limit what you can do with what you’ve got, but I for one can’t stand touch screens, even multi-touch can’t give you a decent feel for what you’re pressing. I guess both have their ups and downs. The N95 is a great phone, not expensive compared to IPhone, and with a weak OS. The iPhone on the other hand, is properly revolutionary, as most Apple products are. But lack of important features such as an expandable memory and even MMS support will make it a hard sell for those who it’s most aimed at - the young and hip. No upgrade to IPhone for me yet since the N95 seems to have better features especially video recording.
