What does this mean? It means that ATT’s routing flaw allowed people to access private, personal Facebook information without the use of any passwords or login information.
Does this mean that privacy is dead?
Possibly. This error has revealed that ATT (and probably any cell phone or Internet provider) has the ability to access personal private information via routing protocols.
Of course, this is not unexpected – it’s always possible to grab passwords and other private information over the Web unless there is a bonafide HTTPS secure link between you and the other server.
Even then, one wonders if information is secure. Nevertheless, HTTPS connections are definitely much more difficult to breach.
Privacy was dead a long time ago, when advertisers began collecting private information about every residence in the United States, and elsewhere. Databases around the globe have access to more information about you and your location than you probably know about yourself.
They have collected buying habits, ethnicity, income, financial records, ages, family situations, divorce, relationships, roommates, lovers, friends, personality types, all legal information and more for decades.
Additionally, credit card companies and other purchasing portals use buying habit informations to sell targeted advertising information.
You have become, basically, a statistic. Welcome to the modern world!
Why I’m Glad Steve Jobs is Back
If you’re a Apple Mac aficionado, the news is glorious – Steve Jobs is back in town and looks to be on game. And I’m glad he’s back because without Steve, Apple wouldn’t be Apple.
Evidently, he’s been back at Cupertino’s Apple main office since the beginning of July 09, but that had been kept rather hush hush. But today, he presented the new iPOD models at the Apple event in San Francisco.
His starting quote: “I’m very happy to be here today with you all. As some of you may know, about five months ago I had a liver transplant. So I now have the liver of a mid twenties person who died in a car crash who was generous enough to donate their organs. And I wouldn’t be here without their generosity. So I’d like us all to be as generous, and I’d like all of us to become organ donors.”
Okay Steve. You got it.
The reason I’m just so darned happy about his return is because this man, along with his arch rival and sometimes nemesis, Bill Gates, helped define MULTI generations while ushering in the computer hardware industry as we now know it. And, he’s about the bounciest comeback CEO ever.
Remember, he was fired from his OWN company by the very people he originally hired. Ouch. He then drifted aimlessly, despondent, eventually started Pixar. We all know THAT story. He proved himself yet again creating another excessively superlative company. Like Apple.
Apple is Steve, Steve is Apple. Just my opin.
When Apple was set to implode and die, he returned like a magic superhero and revived the dead beast to it’s once, vaulted stature. And more.
The man is UNSTOPPABLE… except when it came to coming down with Pancreatic cancer.
The newer, ill, more gentle Steve gave an unforgettable commencement speech at Stanford. “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” Words from Steve and the Whole Earth Catalog… It was as if he had come to realize the “preciousness” and temporalness of life.
A story for our times. There isn’t another one like it that I know of. Perhaps you know other stories of superheroes in real life. But he’s my superhero techie hardware story.
Steve started as an ogre, a villain with uncanny abilities. He’s proven himself time and again to be villainously unstoppable. He’s created by sheer will of force, single handedly, two of the greatest creative companies on Earth.
How?
Relentless Quality
Marketing to the College Crowd (They have or will have, money)
Unmitigated Gall to Incite Frenzy
Taking Terrible Chances
Gambling on the Unknown
Reading the Minds of Consumers
(Before Consumers know themselves)
99 cent downloadable music
Slick whiteness and curvy corners
Great Packaging and Presentation
Whipping His People to a Froth
Never accepting Quit
Stumbling like a drunk, catching himself like a gymnast
Given up at birth, adopted by angels
Intimately challenged by the Great Bill Gates
Having the finest sense of Calligraphy and Design
Sheer luck
Sheer brilliance
Super Sense of Style
Secrecy
Mystery
Constitution of Rubber
So although I’m Virulent PC, I do own a Macbook Pro. That runs XP. It’s just one of the best pieces of versatilious hardware out there.
Right or wrong, we derived at, and have Long Held the Following:
Everything is a Microcosm of the Macrocosm… Everything is a Microcosm of the Whole.
Meaning…
Any questions you have regarding the past, the predictatory future and the present, can be answered by merely studying the pattern of what has consistently happened in any evolution before.
Every happening set of sequences has been repeated before, and will be repeated again in similar fashion.
Example
Technological advancements – what will be the next greatest innovation?
Prediction Whatever fits the pattern of what succeeded in the past. In this case, innovation begins with a singular brilliant creator that expands to an all encompassing community and back again. Things come in waves, cycles and particulate forms. So it is with business, technology, science, art, the Universe itself.
All it takes is One to build the world, and One to tear it down. All the One needs, is Community.
One to light the match, community to provide the fuel, fan the flames and build the fire.
Using this method of defining “What Is,” one can surmise that the Universe was created by One, Expanded by Community, and will be destroyed by One. To Rise again, then be utterly destroyed to form other Universes.
In other words… the Universe was started by One, joined together by Community, consolidated into Three, melded into one, to be utterly destroyed, it’s sparks and pieces to be rebuilt into a new phenomenon.
