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Vumber - Your Disposable Phone Number

Vumber does one thing and does it well. Provide a cheap and easy to use, disposable phone number and voicemail product. Vumber allows you to create a phone number from any area code you want, linked to your home, cell or work ...READ»

After the Fallout, A Defense of Facebook Beacon

I haven't been hanging out on Facebook very long or often these days, so I didn't experience the "Big Brother"-ish alerts from Beacon that my colleague Jason Del Rey describes in his post. But, not living under a rock, I couldn't ...READ»

Facebook: Social Networking Site or Big Brother?

The first time I took note of Beacon, I wasn't exactly sure what it was. It was about one week ago, and I had returned home a few hours earlier from watching some football games at a friend's apartment. I logged into Facebook, and ...READ»

Technology: The Ringing Could Soon Be Everywhere

I was on the subway with one of my louder friends the other day when he said something particularly embarrassing. Red-faced I shushed him vigorously and looked furtively around to see how many people were chuckling. Talk about ...READ»

London Lalling

My ride to work on the Tube yesterday was different. Commuters on London's Underground don't normally make eye contact, let alone speak to one another, but yesterday morning they were smiling and chatting as the front pages of their ...READ»

Pay by Finger

This just in from FC's Charles Fishman: Lowes Foods, which operates 108 bright, expansive grocery stores in the southeast U.S., confirmed to the Raleigh News & Observer today that it will soon offer payment using a fingerprint ...READ»

Somewhat Secure Number

With a Congressional committee interviewing ChoicePoint CEO Derek Smith over the theft of 145,000 people's social security numbers, many members of Congress are wondering if it isn't time to rewrite the laws of selling personal data ...READ»

Blanket Security

The IT Security Show, the self-proclaimed largest online security exhibition, offers an impressive array of white papers related to computer forensics, information security, biometric identification, cryptography, fraud, and other ...READ»

I've Got the Privacy (Jet)Blues

JetBlue Airlines has recently come under fire for sharing 5 million passenger itineraries with a defense contractor without passengers' knowledge or consent. In so doing, not only did the company violate its own privacy policy, it ...READ»

Safe and Sound?

The Sept. 15 edition of Crypto-Gram features a wonderful item about the differences behind designing for safety -- accidents and random events -- and designing for security -- attacks and nonrandom events. Using the August power ...READ»

Card Sharks

The state of Virginia's attorney general's office now offers an identity theft passport to protect victims of identity crimes. The passport is a legal document that asserts and confirms that you are, indeed, yourself -- and not the ...READ»