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This Week In Privacy: Jan 9, 2009Today

Wired

Weak Password Brings ‘Happiness’ To Twitter Hacker
An 18-year-old hacker with a history of celebrity pranks has admitted to Monday’s hijacking of multiple high-profile Twitter accounts, including President-Elect Barack Obama’s, and the official feed for Fox News.

TechNewsWorld

Will 2009 Be the Year of Multiple Digital Identities?
Just days after Twitter was hacked, a group of entrepreneurs and policy activists gathered to discuss “Privacy 2009: The Year Ahead.” The discussion demonstrated that the privacy debate is starting to mature.

InternetNews

New Data Breach, Privacy Bills in Congress
One year after trying unsuccessfully to introduce legislation on data breaches and protection of individual privacy, California Senator Dianne Feinstein is trying again.

      

Coming Soon: New Blog. Your Thoughts?Yesterday

We use this blog for announcements, help articles, some news-ish posts, posts on password basics and even a few things which probably would have been best left unsaid.

In other words… it’s a mess [smile].

So we’ve built a new blog! (sneak peek here).

And I’m cleaning things up during the move. Here’s the idea:

• No more support articles. Those go in the knowledge base.
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• The basics, and intro to password articles go in the library (also new) so that (1) we can modify them at will without stomping on basic  blog etiquette and (2) your RSS doesn’t get smothered as we publish more.
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• News-ish post. Basically This Week in Privacy and the occasional comment. Strong personal opinions in the personal blogs only. Mine’s here (I rarely post).

What To Do with the Old Blog?

I LOVE throwing things out. So I’m trying very hard to avoid mass historical revisionism.

The posts on wordpress.com will remain as-is, with commenting closed. But I’m concerned about folks who stumble across old help articles, and get outdated information.

There is, I admit, one temptati

Triple Release: Help Center, Desktop & SimplificationsJanuary 7

Happy New Year! Back from our holiday vacation and on a roll with triple release for you (gosh I love saying triple release).

1. Sparkly New Help Center

No more fumbling with support articles on the the blog. You’ve now got tons of help options to choose from, depending on what you need.

• Knowledge Base
  Help articles galore — search it, or browse by topic. Articles are automatically fed into the Help link inside your Passpack account.
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• Passpack It! Button Issues
  Problems using auto-login or training a website? Use this form to give us the link and what’s wrong. We’ll fix the sites as quickly as we can.
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• Bugs & Known Issues
  You can use this form to report any errors you might encounter. If it’s a known issue, you’ll see a short description with a status update and possible worka
  

This Week In Privacy: Jan 2, 2009January 2

CNET

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To a Birthday Greeting
An interesting take on privacy and revealing a piece of information that most people wouldn’t think twice about when signing up for a new online account.

WOAI

The 500 Most Common Passwords
1 in 9 people use at least one password from this list and one out of 50 use one of the top 20 most common passwords. Is yours on the list?

ReadWriteWeb

Top Online Security Threats For 2009
One new infected Web page is discovered every 4.5 seconds. Here’s a look at the top security threats you should be looking out for in 2009.

      

This Week In Privacy: Dec 26, 2008December 26 2008

The Olympian

Watch Out For ID Theft While Online
If you have some gift money burning a hole in your pocket and want to grab online post-Christmas bargains, beware of ID thieves hoping to make you the next victim.

ZDNet

5 Security Precautions To Take For The Holiday Break
The following last-minute precautions should probably be on your To Do list for just before leaving the office this holiday.

The Recorder & Times

Internet Security Tests Show All’s Not Right In The City
Anyone with a laptop and the right software could slip onto someon’s home wireless network to steal bandwidth to get free internet access or worse to steal sensitive information.