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Identity 'at risk' on Facebook

Thu, 01 May 2008 19:31:12 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: ...and that's yet another reason why I refuse to get onto the 'Social Networking' bandwagon!

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Identity 'at risk' on Facebook

Personal details of Facebook users could potentially be stolen, the BBC technology programme Click has found.

The popular social networking site allows users to add a variety of applications to their profile.

But a malicious program, masquerading as a harmless application, could potentially harvest personal data.

Facebook says users should exercise caution when adding applications. Any programs which violate their terms will be removed, the network said.

We have discovered a way to steal the personal details of you and all your Facebook friends without you knowing.

We made up the fictitious profile of Bob Smith. He keeps most of his details on his profile private from non-friends.

While we could not get all details, what we did get, included his name, hometown, school, interests and photograph, would certainly help us to steal someone's identity.

So how did we do it?

Tags: facebook, privacy, identity

Men flirting in Saudi Arabia to get punished...with a haircut!

Thu, 01 May 2008 08:17:11 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: What can you even say abot this!? Ridiculous!

This is a good blog to read though... worth following!

Clip Source: deathby1000papercuts.com

Flirting Saudis: Women Get Flogged, Men Punished with Haircuts

Justice Carries a Pair of Scissors

Journey for a moment to the Magic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the women get flogged for flirting and men–get a haircut?

Prince Fahd bin Badr ordered police to administer the trims after seeing a group of men with long hair pestering female students as they left school in the town of Skaka. Many clergymen in the conservative Gulf country say men should not have long hair because Islam prohibits the sexes from emulating each other.

“In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia it is illegal to wear a cross necklace, read a Bible, or utter a Christian prayer in the privacy of your own home. Under the law, conversion to Christianity by Saudi citizens is a criminal offense punishable by death.”

Drug dealers are routinely beheaded.

The moral of this story: Serial flirters, when in Saudi Arabia, would find it wise to leave their cross, Bible and nickel bag at home.

Tags: saudi arabia, justice, punishment, flirt, women

Father of LSD Drug, Albert Hofmann, dies at 102

Thu, 01 May 2008 07:57:28 GMT

clipped by: JediKnut
clipper's remarks: Interesting article. Didn't know it was invented for medicinal purposes!

Clip Source: ap.google.com

Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland

GENEVA (AP) — Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.

Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village near Basel where Hofmann moved following his retirement in 1971.

For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention.

"I produced the substance as a medicine. ... It's not my fault if people abused it," he once said.

He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943.

"I had to leave work for home because I was suddenly hit by a sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness," he subsequently wrote in a memo to company bosses.

He said his initial experience resulted in "wonderful visions."

Tags: lsd, albert, drugs