See also: http://openbook.org/
We know what you're doing
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#12Reminds me on the who-is-not-at-home syndication from Facebook and Twitter. Even so these are scary, I really think they provide excellent privacy teaching moments. Hope you are going to keep this up for some time and enhance it with other categories.
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#13I'm surprised there isn't a column for people who are reading Hacker News. This guy for example: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506
Haha, my heart momentarily jumped out of my chest when I clicked that.
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#14I'm surprised there isn't a column for people who are reading Hacker News. This guy for example: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506
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#15In case it's not immediately obvious (no visible sign, even on hover), clicking on the people's names will take you to their facebook profiles.
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#16I can't believe people are still publicly posting stuff about their bosses. Surely there has been enough press coverage about people getting fired for fb/twitter antics
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#17I can see this blossoming into a very titalating "Juicy Gossip" like startup involving delving deep into other people's lives.
I own Jussip.com (Juicy+Gossip) hit me up if interested. My contact info(s) can be found on my blog ChrisNorstrom.com
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#18I'm surprised there isn't a column for people who are reading Hacker News. This guy for example: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506
This is a neat trick and reminds me of MCI codes from the BBS days. Basically, for a lot of BBS software (and usually enabled by default) visitors to your BBS when posting in discussion threads could insert escape characters (like "%UN") which at runtime would be replaced with metadata related to the person viewing the post at that time.
So, if I were to post "%UN's mother was a hamster and father smelled of elderberries" as part of a thread when I viewed it it would say "gfodor's mother..." etc. You could have first name, last name, etc, so with some creative thinking you could post fairly convincing posts that would trick people into thinking you were actually legitimately mentioning them.
I can remember many posts filled with angry replies from random users who went off the deep end when seeing that some random person on the BBS was trash talking them personally. Oops.
Edit: And for the curious, the purpose of these codes was usually for people creating assets for the BBS. For example, when designing your home screen (an ANSI text file, basically), inserting the codes made it so the home screen would reflect information on the logged in user. Usually when enabled the interpolation happened anywhere, not just in user defined assets. (Of course as BBS software got more mature these types of pranks were not possible with default settings.)
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#19A great example that should remind people that it's probably best to assume that everything they say or do online (offline as well) is now (and forevermore) public. Assume that anything you say or do has the ability to be seen by anyone and everyone around the globe instantly - without any methods of recourse. The genie is out of the bottle.
Hence one should adapt one's own behaviour and act accordingly (that doesn't mean that you should get paranoid - just be more careful :).
Reduce risk and watch what you say from now on.
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#20See also: http://openbook.org/
Type "such a nerd".
Commence rage.