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Getting Twitter Spam? Here’s how I deal with it

November 5, 2009
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This is the second part of a post series I star­ted a few days ago, deal­ing with Twit­ter spam.

How to avoid becom­ing a Twit­ter spam­mer [part one]
How to deal with Twit­ter spam [this article]

What got me think­ing about it was the recent spate of incom­ing DM tweets from trus­ted people I fol­low. I received another one […]

Tagged as: DM, OAuth, password, privacy, Security, Social Media, Spam, twitter, Twitter Spam, Username

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How to avoid becoming a Twitter spammer, the easy way

November 2, 2009
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been receiv­ing spam on Twit­ter from trus­ted people I fol­low.
It’s not that they’ve all been over­come by the need to mon­et­ize their Twit­ter accounts (there, I said mon­et­ize in a blog post, I’m doomed), rather, they’ve fallen vic­tim to diabolically-crafted account phish­ing schemes and their Twit­ter accounts are now […]

Tagged as: OAuth, password, privacy, Security, Social Media, Spam, twitter, Twitter Spam, Username

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How to use a webcam as a home security camera

September 17, 2009
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Over the years as I’ve acquired vari­ous bits of hard­ware, I’ve some­how ended up with a few ‘extra’ web­cams. Not really want­ing them to lan­guish in my parts bin, I figured I’d take a stab at set­ting them up as home secur­ity cam­eras. And, I wanted to check out what my dogs were up to […]

Tagged as: HomeCamera, Lifestyle Technology, Monitoring, online, privacy, Reviews, Security, Tech, Webcam

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PHOSPHOR PEDOPHILES (The New Evil of the Electronic Age)

October 10, 2005

The Globe & Mail — Tech­no­logy
Novem­ber 1999 — 2080 words
“Do you want to see some pic­tures? Some fun and naughty ones?”. Before Patty73 could reply, another line appeared; “Erin19 is a 19/f look­ing for some cute young girls to trade self-nudes and more…Msg Me”. Then another ” GOTO http://pornsex011alpha.com for […]

Tagged as: article, crime, Lifestyle Technology, News, newspaper, print, privacy, Published, sex, Writing

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