One of the least-checked settings on Facebook, is the permissions you’ve given every app/game/quiz you’ve ever used with the site.
Author: [[Neo]]
I am a web programmer, system integrator, and photographer. I have been writing code since high school, when I had only a TI-83 calculator. I enjoy getting different systems to talk to each other, coming up with ways to mimic human processes using technology, and explaining how complicated things work.
Of my many blogs, this one is purely about the technology projects, ideas, and solutions that I have come across in my internet travels. It's also the place for technical updates related to my other sites that are part of The-Spot.Network.
If you’ve never logged out of Facebook and looked at your profile page, you may be surprised at how much info you’re sharing with the world.
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WordPress Plugin: Bad Behavior
Since I started using a WordPress blog back in 2005, I’ve always had the Akismet WordPress plugin installed, and it was the sole provider of my spam protection. It has done an awesome job with an at-this-moment 99.843% accuracy rating, and has blocked 21,215 spam comments of which 6,686 of them were just in the last 6 months. About a week […]
If you don’t know where your personal information could be leaked, you’ll never know where to plug it. Here’s some of the common holes.
I’m sure at one point or another, everyone has done the “ego search.” You go to Google, type in your name, and see what comes up about you. From what I’m told, there’s even a fun ranking system based on the number of pages that show up about you. My real name has about a […]