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BBC News - Touchless payment coming to mobile phones - 3 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-12478643

shared by dec_burke on 22 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Much of the discussion at Mobile World Congress has been about turning the mobile phone into a payment device.
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London Riots: BlackBerry Messenger Used More than Facebook or Twitter - 4 views

mashable.com/...don-riots-blackberry-messenger

shared by dec_burke on 17 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • iOS or Android smartphones
  • police and media attention was drawn to a particular post on the Facebook page
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      dec_burke on 01 Sep 11
       
      How come the police could access all this information and not what was on BBM?
  • tweet from rioters describing their deeds and where they were headed next. Some posted pictures of looting and burning police cars
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  • got its hands on BBM messages directing rioters
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      dec_burke on 01 Sep 11
       
      How did a newspaper manage to do what the police and government couldn't?
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Add-On gives power and nuance to 'Do Not Track' (Wired UK) - 2 views

www.wired.co.uk/...do-not-track

shared by dec_burke on 26 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Do Not Call list
  • prevented from tracking visitors
  • a signal sent by your browser to a website.
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  • import lists of tracking sites you want to block entirely
  • imports IE9's Tracker Protection List and builds on Firefox's Do Not Track header, which comes as a simple on or off setting. When turned on, every time you visit a website, Firefox sends a simple standardised message that says "Don't track me."
  • create a whitelist of websites that the user doesn't mind being tracked by. So, for instance, if you are fine with the personalisation at Nytimes.com, you could choose to have your browser not send the anti-tracking header to that site.
  • building on the online ad industry's preferred method of letting users opt out of tracking, which is cookies.
  • by using the Network Advertising Initiative page, but those cookies aren't permanent and if you clear your cookies, the opt-out disappears. Abine's tool makes them permanent and keeps the anti-tracking cookies, even if you clear other cookies.
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BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Click Tips: Protecting PC data II - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...7820283.stm

shared by dec_burke on 22 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Rob Freeman, Click's very own Mr Fixit, looks at encryption techniques available to everyone.
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BBC News - Government IT use must change: Institute for Government - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...uk-politics-12616777

shared by dec_burke on 02 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Flexible approach The government has already said it is seeking significant savings in its annual spending on IT - and will announce on Wednesday that both the Treasury and Cabinet Office will have to approve IT contracts worth more than £5m.
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BBC News - Cyber criminals find new targets on unsuspecting sites - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-12539993

shared by dec_burke on 24 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The proportion of websites secretly harbouring malware has reached one in 3,000 according to security firm Kaspersky. It found a surge in the number of web-based attacks in 2010, with more than 580 million incidents detected.
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