Posted: February 7th, 2009 | Author: James | Filed under: The Outside World | Tags: facebook, social networking, twitter | No Comments »
Just finished reading an article over on AllFacebook about how the author thinks that Facebook is about to kill Twitter due to the fact the API has been expanded to make it easier to set a users status from an Application. There’s a big difference between Twitter and Facebook in the way that people use them that the author seems to fail to grasp. Facebook is a closed circle app where in order to see a persons updates you need to be there friend. You’re forced into two way communication. With Twitter I can follow people who are of interest to me and others can follow me if I’m tweeting stuff of interest to them. We don’t have to be friends. We don’t have to be bombarded by each others content if we don’t want to. Twitter facilitates one way communication in a way that Facebook doesn’t and probably never will.
And if Facebook thought they were about to kill off would they have offered $500m for it?
Posted: January 27th, 2009 | Author: James | Filed under: The Outside World | Tags: email, hacked, magazine | 4 Comments »
Looks like the forums for Digital Camera magazine have been hacked. Just received this in my email…
An administrator of Digital Camera Magazine Community has sent the following email
to all users in the Everyone forum group.
Sent From: admin
Subject: Attention faggots
__________________________________
Your retarded administrators don’t understand that repairing damage is meaningless unless you first fix the problem. This forum is now 4chan’s bitch, and we shall do with it as we please. Since your administrators are completely incompetent we have decided to ban them, as well as change their passwords; we’re sure you won’t mind. We went easy on you this first time, prepare for the worst.
-Anonymous
[Update] It took a few days but the site eventually did come back up with this explanation.
Welcome back to the site. You may be aware that we recently closed dcmag.co.uk following a malicious attack from unknown users. These users accessed an administration interface that allowed them to send an offensive email to our registered users. The DCMag team apologises for any offence this may have caused you.
Subscribers to the print magazines Digital Camera and Digital Camera World do not have their banking details and subscriber information held on this site. Your site registration passwords remain encrypted, but if you would like to change your password here’s how to change your password.
At least nothing too sensitive fell into the hands of the attackers. Hopefully this will teach Digital Camera Magazine a lesson.