Researchers Use Facebook and Other Social Network Data to Hack Social Security Numbers

As online society becomes ever more social, and cares ever less about personal security, the phrase “social security” seems more than ever an oxymoron. Perhaps nowhere is this more clearly brought home than in this week’s announcement by researchers at Carnegie Mellon that they have cracked the social security code, and were able to predict with frightening accuracy many social sercurity numbers (SSN). In many cases, their hack was aided by information gleaned from such social networking sites as Facebook.

Starbucks Giving Away Free Pints of Ice Cream via Facebook Right Now

7/6/20097/6/2009 by The Internet Patrol

Yes, it’s true. Starbucks is giving away free pints of ice cream, via Facebook. How it works is that, through the Star bucks Facebook application, you can send a certificate for one free pint of Starbuck’s icecream to a Facebook friend. To send a free Starbucks free ice cream, just follow the following easy steps. (Sorry, you can’t get the free pint for yourself – you’ll have to have a friend send it to you!)

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Facebook Says “Yes” to Holocaust Deniers, “No” to People with Odd Names

5/19/20095/19/2009 by The Internet Patrol

Facebook has found itself in the rather unusual (some would say “indefensible”) position of booting from Facebook people with odd or unusual names, while refusing to boot pro-Nazi groups who deny that the Holocaust ever happened (so-called “Holocaust deniers”).

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The White House Gets a Twitter Account, Facebook Page, and MySpace Space

5/5/2009 by The Internet Patrol

Proving that it really wants to be the hip Internet administration, the WhiteHouse now has a Twitter account, a Facebook page, and a MySpace Page. Check out the Whitehouse Twitter account, Whitehouse Facebook account, and Whitehouse MySpace account here.

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Criminal Defendant Acquited Over Arresting Officer’s Facebook and MySpace Remarks

3/12/20093/12/2009 by The Internet Patrol

Gary Waters is one lucky perp. Already on parole for a burglery rap, he was arrested for gun possession, and went to trial. And then, he was acquitted because of comments that the arresting officer Vaughan Ettienne had made on Facebook and MySpace.

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Facebook Pulls Plug on New TOS After Massive Backlash

2/19/2009 by The Internet Patrol

Less than a week after Facebook announced its new Terms of Service (TOS), Facebook has announced that they are going back to the TOS drawing board, and have reinstated their old Terms of Service in the meantime. They are also requesting user input via the Facebook group called “The Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities”.

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Facebook Responds to Concerns over New Facebook TOS

2/17/2009 by The Internet Patrol

Facebook has responded to the concern engendered by the new Facebook TOS with a post by none other than Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg himself. In his comments, Zuckerberg tries to allay the fears of Facebook users by saying that even though the new Facebook TOS says that Facebook can use all user-generated content however they want, and forever, they wouldn’t really do so. Unfortunately, that doesn’t cut it.

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New Facebook Terms of Service: All Your Content Are Belong to Us – Forever!

2/16/20092/17/2009 by The Internet Patrol

Facebook (FB) has recently updated their Terms of Service (TOS), and among the new changes is this dandy: once you post something to Facebook you can’t take it back. Meaning that even if you close your account, by using Face book you have granted them a perpetual, eternal license to do whatever they want with your content.

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Teen Anthony Stancl Uses Facebook to Trick and Blackmail Other Boys Into Having Sex with Him

2/6/20092/12/2009 by The Internet Patrol

An 18-year-old boy has been charged with blackmailing as many as 31 teen boys into having sex with him. Anthony Stancl – who calls himself Tony Stancil – of New Berlin, Wisconsin, tricked his victims by posing as a girl on Facebook, and having his victims send nude pictures and videos of themselves to “her”. Then Anthony Stancil told them that if they didn’t have sex with him, or let him perform a sex act on them, that he would post the pictures and videos to the Internet.

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Facebook Censors Pictures of Breastfeeding Babies

12/31/200812/31/2008 by The Internet Patrol

As early as 2007, Facebook began quietly censoring pictures of breastfeeding babies which members had posted to their Facebook profiles. They did this by simply removing the pictures of the nursing babies after they were posted. In some cases, users were warned if they continued posting such “obscene” content, they stood to lose their Facebook accounts. Now the issue is heating up, and Facebook is not backing down. Facebook – you win the booby prize.

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You’ve Been Served – on Facebook!

12/17/200812/16/2008 by The Internet Patrol

An Australian court has allowed someone to be served with notice of a lawsuit – by message on Facebook!

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Facebook Phone Now Available – the World’s First Social Networking Phone

12/12/2008 by The Internet Patrol

Inq Mobile has released the INQ1, which is being touted as “The Facebook Phone”. That is because the Facebook Phone’s functionality is actually built around Facebook, and other social networking. In essence, it’s a social network device first while, oh yeah, it’s also a mobile phone.

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