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INTRODUCTION: "From Surveillance to Social Networking"

INTERVIEW RECAP: In short, my explanation on this matter leans to what people knowingly post and that Data Mining on the internet has made what used to take time and money to conduct surveillance on individuals is now easier than ever.

People throw themselves to social networking, some use online dating sites (answering questions that build a psych profile on you??? What???) and do and say things on the web you would never normally do.

Why? Besides data mining, besides employers looking or wanting access to your friends and what you post (employment discrimination if I ever saw it!!!), there is the danger of sites which you have no contol over of being hacked and all the data you've ever submitted (i.e. which social networking sites like Facebook retains forever, they've made blunders and have sought to steal information from day one, see this recent settlement, and don't believe the 90 day deletion, there are server backups that they can't destroy for Federal Record Keeping Laws! ). Nothing on the web is 100% secure and can be stolen and or used against you.

Below are the web sources to what I talked about with Bill Comb at Desert West Media in Being Web Safe Series #1.

Links to the video interviews will be coming soon.  -turbowebguy.

Who are the top web domain name registrars?

ICANN Accredited Registrars

http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/top-registrars/global

What is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a free, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Wiki is Hawaiian for "Quick")

What does Wikipedia say about ICANN?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

"... On September 29, 2006, ICANN signed a new agreement with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) ..."

What happened to Network Solutions in July, 2009?

Network Solutions Hack Compromises 573,000 Credit, Debit Accounts July 24, 2009; 5:20 PM ET

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/07/network_solutions_hack_comprom.html

Network Solutions hit by massive data breach 07:59 28 Jul 2009

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/07/28/237064/network-solutions-hit-by-massive-data-breach.htm

Data Security Alert – Problem Fix and Customers Notified

http://about.networksolutions.com/site/data-security-alert-problem-fix-and-customers-notified

What is Google Wave?

Google Wave (Collaborate in real-time)

http://www.wave.google.com

Coca-Cola Facial Profiler

http://www.cocacolazero.com/index.jsp

Definition of Social Networking

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/social_networking

"The interaction between a group of people who share a common interest"

What is Twitter?

Twitter.com

140 character limit is the same as the SMS "Short Message Service" used for cell phones, twitter was the first micro blog to broadcast updates to cell phones.

"... Twitter began in a "daylong brainstorming session" that was held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo in an attempt to break out of a creative slump. At that meeting Jack Dorsey introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group, a concept partly inspired by the SMS group messaging service TXTMob.^[8]

The working name was just "Status" for a while. It actually didn’t have a name. We were trying to name it, and mobile was a big aspect of the product early on ... We liked the SMS aspect, and how you could update from anywhere and receive from anywhere...."

Facebook had a security problem? Yes.

Facebook's source code leaked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#cite_note-facebooksourcecodepublished2-0

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9758702-7.html

Mass Media and Social Networking

Editorial: Mass Media wants you to follow them on twitter, and vice versa. Why? When you become their friends, they can see all about you, who you follow, what you say, they want more friends, when you follow them, become their friends, suddenly they can data mine you, they can collect data and sell it to their advertisers, up their ratings, people don't care, they want to see news

http://twitter.com/foxnews

http://www.facebook.com/FoxNews

http://www.myspace.com/ureport

What is Data Mining?

Data Mining

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining

Digital Photos with GPS coordinates and facial recognition software?

http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto

If 128-bit encryption was secure, why do we need 256-bit encyption?

128 Bit vs. 256 Bit Encryption

http://www.bestsslcertificates.com/articles11.html

"... If you look at 128 bit encryption, you will see that there are 88 more bits of key length than a 40 bit encryption. Just that change means that there are 2⁸⁸ more combinations. This makes it much harder hackers to try to crack the code. We’re talking something well beyond the range of the trillions. So, as you might guess, 256 bit encryption is even stronger. (There is an intermediary blog, 192, that really isn’t used much amongst SSL certificate providers.) Both of these types of encryption make use of what is known as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which makes use of a special algorithm. ..."

What are fishing scams, no wait, Phishing Scams???

Phishing Scams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging,^[1] and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. Even when using server authentication, it may require tremendous skill to detect that the website is fake. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to fool users,^[2] and exploits the poor usability of current web security technologies.^[3] Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical security measures.

A phishing technique was described in detail in 1987, and the first recorded use of the term "phishing" was made in 1996. The term is a variant of fishing,^[4] probably influenced by phreaking^[5][6] or password harvesting fishing, and alludes to baits used to "catch" financial information and passwords.