Everyone has been in an uproar about privacy since Facebook’s new privacy changes. This happens every time Facebook changes anything. Close to half a billion people have stuck around through all the changes. The irony of it all is that now developers are releasing tools that utilize Facebook’s new privacy-ignoring features to help users “reclaim” [...]
In my last post, I exposed a few flaws in the Groupon system that allow you to reuse Groupons endlessly until they are expired. After Andrew Mason, founder of Groupon, took the time to comment, I now feel obligated to write this follow-up. The problem – how can businesses verify the validity of a Groupon [...]
Last week concluded my first three months at my first job out of college. Accenture has been great! I’ve learned a lot, met a lot of great people, and am excited about the career ahead of me.
After Jim Bumgardner‘s blog post Monday confessing to cheating on Foursquare and subsequent LA Times coverage, I think Foursquare will be addressing their service’s security immediately. For those of you who don’t know, Foursquare is a location based social network that incorporates gaming elements. Bumgardner used Foursquare’s 3 month old API to become mayor the [...]
A few months ago, I was answering dozens of Craigslist ads a day to try and find any work I could including paid surveys and research settings. In the fury of it all, I accidentally involved myself in a mail fraud scheme by responding to a spam message I mistook as a real response to one [...]