Trusting Others With Your Online Presence

Trace Sharp — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:59:39 +0000

One thing that those of us who aren’t necessarily technically inclined is the fear that as we trust others to protect our online product, something might go wrong.

No one wants to deal with this nightmare.

And it does happen:

Soapblox is dead. That means that all the blogs hosted there, including such institutions as Pam’s House Blend and the Swing State Project have disappeared. From what I’m reading on facebook, no one knows at this point if the blogs will be able to recover their data, so the archives could be gone as well.

According to Alice, Pam’s House Blend is back up but Soapblox’s crash is something terrifying. I was hacked recently. Opened the home blog and, WHAM, a devil was looking at me telling me I was hacked. (Seriously. It wasn’t a hallucination.) It took me several days to recover from the digital blast.

It comes down to a matter of trust, but I’ve also been advised by Sadcox that there are things that can be implemented to protect your online product.It’s important to remember that the life cycle in the blogosphere is about the length of the lifespan of a mayfly. But more so, backing up your content, having a copy of your template and having a contingency plan is imperative.

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Twitter Hacking Explained

Trace Sharp — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:57:33 +0000

And part of the twitter hacking is explained.

From Wired:

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.

The hacker, who goes by the handle GMZ, told Threat Level on Tuesday he gained entry to Twitter’s administrative control panel by pointing an automated password-guesser at a popular user’s account. The user turned out to be a member of Twitter’s support staff, who’d chosen the weak password “happiness.”

Cracking the site was easy, because Twitter allowed an unlimited number of rapid-fire log-in attempts.

And so it goes.

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