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You may remember last December when Facebook began prompting users to make their shared content and status messages publicly visible. With the announcement, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, encouraged Facebook users to follow suit by changing his own "old" privacy settings and posting this statement:  For those wondering I set most of my content on my personal Facebook page to be open so people could see it. I set some of my content to be more private, but I didn't see a need to limit visibility of pics with my friends, family or my teddy bear :) A few months later Facebook pushed the privacy boundaries again with its latest program, “Instant Personalization”. This service allows other... 

Everyone knows about the HP Laserjet printers. No doubt we’ve all used them at one point in our life. My high school had all HP Laserjets and boy, we had fun with them. Evers since Irongeek posted his research on these printers, they’ve been a prime target. We’re proud to announce a new tool. This one will scan ranges for these printers and then attempt to print the hell out of them haha. You can download it here: http://planaheist.com/usertools/massprint.tar  

Figured this might be of interest to some people. Seeing how technology is gaining high ground in capturing our data, just time till something comes around that scans our faces at airports. Are there any facial recognition setups in play anywhere? Anyways, check out the links. via http://ahprojects.com/c/itp/thesis and http://jwz.livejournal.com/1213497.html  

If you hadn't heard, identity theft company LifeLock agreed to pay $12 million dollars to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission and 35 states. The FTC felt that LifeLock ads were deceptive and overstated the protection provided by the service. Personally, I think the charges are valid and I had to chuckle a bit when I read this email from CEO Todd Davis sent out to his partners. Mr. Davis certainly has his public relations firm working overtime to write something like this. Here's the Message: Take a read for yourself. I've got a few more comments below. Important Message From Todd Davis, LifeLock CEO ... 

Open-Source Defense Electronics Presented by GBPPR’s Directorate of Science & Technology Includes items such as: GPS Jammer Cell Phone Bugs VHF/UHF Jammers Bug detecting and more. Homebrew Military & Espionage Electronics  

Now you can know what Big Brother knows about you and get access to the same dirt everyone from your boss, landlord, insurance agent, to your favorite casino has on you. Here is a comprehenisve list of websites and phone numbers for most of the “specialty” consumer reports, like your employment, rental, and check writing history. Be sure to check them out and correct any errors, before a crisis hits. via consumerist.com Employment History Reports The Work Number ChoicePoint (866) 312-8075 Acxiom Abso Tenant History Reports ChoicePoint (877) 448-5732 First Advantage SafeRent (888) 333-2413 Tenant Data Services RentBureau UD Registry (818) 785-3905 Auto & Home Insurance Claim Reports ChoicePoint Insurance... 

[Miguel A. Vallejo] wanted a portable spectrum analyzer for the 2.4GHz ISM band. No problem, there’s modules for that are easy to interface with a microcontroller and LCD screen. But carrying around a black project box doesn’t exactly scream ‘cool’ so he fit his spectrum analyzer inside of a cell phone. This made a lot of things easier for him; he already had a few old phones, he was able to use both the original battery and the original LCD screen, and a lot of the mounting work is already done for you. The only challenge was to fit his custom circuitry inside. By hacking off part of the CYWM6935 module and cutting some protoboard in the same shape as the original PCB he managed to get everything into this... 

This is a simple bash script that uses nikto, nmap, nslookup, the Harvester, subdomainer and metagoofil for penetration testing and enumeration. This code is very straight-forward and you can do whatever you wish with it, but for god’s sake read the readme file. This is a rough first run so some things might break and the report files are all over the damn place and you might need to edit some stuff. http://sourceforge.net/projects/reecon/ Suggestions, ideas, bugs?  

Foil, not just for hats anymore! Tinfoil is apparently not just good for keeping the lizard people from reading your thoughts from afar, with a little wit and the silver stuff you can also wreak havoc on those high security and dimple locks that are just a little too hard to pick sometimes. Now available in kit form, compliments of China(tm)   Article and video on Blackbag.nl  

With the new year come the new worries about taxes - what kind of taxes will you need to file before April 15th, how much money will you have to pay, what bracket did you place in, etc. Unfortunately, you also need to worry about protecting your identity. As Privacyrights.org notes, your IRS information returns might constitute an identity thief's "dream." None of us want to become a "dream" target for any kind of thief, let alone an identity thief. So while you're figuring out the right returns to send to the IRS, this is also a great time to take steps to ensure the protection of your identity. Five Recommendatations for Keeping Tax Info Safe Guard your mail. Once your mail leaves...