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Two arrested over Facebook comments in India

An unelected king-maker dies.  His followers shutdown the city. 1 woman speaks truth to power, and gets arrested.  Her uncle’s business gets destroyed by thugs. Welcome to opression, social media […]

A tall glass of entrapment

Kids will do stupid things. Illegal things too. Social Media will ensure it haunts them forever…   University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Adam Bauer was ticketed for underage drinking in […]

No "likes" on these comments

Ahh…girls stealing boyfriends…age old drama. 21st century legal liabilities… From MSN.com: Farah Nur Arafah, an 18-year-old teen in Indonesia, was given a 75-day suspended jail sentence in February 2010 after […]

New Filipino law makes liking on Facebook illegal

Welcome to the Balkanization of the internet. While I’m no fan of Facebook, laws like these will hamper freedom & civil rights. I’ve always said that with Social Media, you […]

Prevent your kids from becomomg accidental porn stars

Here’s another good reason to educate your kids and keep them off social media. Parasite websites are popping up that exist solely to grab suggestive and sexually explicit photos of […]

Who's been tracking YOUR DNA?

In the 1990’s we spent $ 2.5 BILLION to sequence the human genome. Thanks to Moore’s law (computing power doubles every 18 months) and revolutionary breakthroughs in DNA sequencing, pretty […]

Jeff Bezos, ebook Nobility. You, Kindle buyer, are serfs

Amazon closed a Norwegian woman’s Amazon account AND DELETED all books off her Kindle for violating some secret Amazon policy.   Amazon will NOT disclose what policy she violated; nor […]

Woman arrested for outing an undercover cop on Facebook

Cop posts his photo on Facebook. Cop goes undercover, and a convict’s girlfriend outs him.   Umm…remind me again why cops need a facebook page?   A Texas woman (Melissa […]

Facebook outs most personal secrets

Historically, I’ve spoken about the stupid/vain/dump things that users do on their Facebook profiles.   I’ve also warned about friending people.   Here’s an unfortunate case of social media revealing […]

The floppy isn't dead – and old-fashion cut-n-paste defeats massive security

A Canadian Sub-Lieutenant pled guilty to selling secrets to the Russians.   What is amusing, is how he defeated the complex technical controls present within the Canadian military.   He […]