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Thursday at 11:16 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company, were stolen in a burglary on 26 May. It is understood that Colt did not employ encryption to protect the information." - Simon via Bookmarklet
Thanks Google. - Paul Buchheit
"No credit-card numbers were in the stolen data, just names, addresses, [social-security numbers]; all the info needed for a thief to open new accounts using your identity," Ouch, that hurts! - Nenad Nikolic via Alert Thingy
Argh, it kills me how frequently this sort of thing happens and yet there's no legal requirement (or enforcement teeth) to force use of encryption, nor to limit SSN data to a need-to-know basis. Victims can really be hosed in these situations while the org gets at most a brief wristslap and reputation hit for that newscycle. - Casey
Btw, for those of you exposed by this incident, you can go a step stronger than a credit alert and put a credit freeze in place. You will need to file a police report, but the credit freeze can stay in place (at your discretion) for up to 7 years and would require a call to you verifying any application for credit before it can be granted. Slight nuisance factor possible in terms of you might not be able to stroll into mobile/Apple store and get instant gratification signing up for new account, but - Casey
at least it's stronger protection and peace of mind. There's a helpful privacy rights clearinghouse / advocacy group that has advice here: http://www.privacyrights.org/f... My old links for the FTC guide 404. Good luck, I've been in your shoes and it's a pain in the arse. - Casey
If this affected you then you should have been contacted by Google already about taking steps to protect yourself. - Adewale Oshineye
Google did not contact me. Have any former employees been contacted? - Chris White
Not so coincidentally, I wrote up a guide to protecting and checking on your credit record here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/... - Matt Cutts
Apparently all affected employees and ex-employees have been contacted. - Adewale Oshineye
Viacom did it! - Andy Murdoch
Chris: asking around, I know a few affected current and ex-employees that still have not been contacted yet. - Simon
They should contact Google HR who should be able to point them in the right direction - Adewale Oshineye
How janky does "Colt Express Outsourcing Services" sound? It's like a temp agency from a Wes Anderson movie. - Ginger Makela
Haven't been contacted either - Jess Lee
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They are stupid parents regardless. - Tamar Weinberg
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Wednesday at 6:53 pm - Link
Need to make business operations easier? Use these services. - Tamar Weinberg
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Wednesday at 6:18 am - Link
"Like Friendfeed? It's going to integrate Plurk in the next batch." - Tamar Weinberg
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Tuesday at 6:56 am - Link
Mu's recent piece rocks! That is all. - Tamar Weinberg
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June 30 at 6:54 pm - Link
The hardships of North Korean kids in preparation for adult life. - Tamar Weinberg
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June 30 at 11:22 am - Link
With the help of social networking tools, an IBM employee has cut down sharply on his daily e-mail. - Tamar Weinberg
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June 30 at 11:07 am - Link
Plurk and Twitter are two microblogging tools, but that's about all they have in common. Here's why. - Tamar Weinberg
I use twitter to follow you and other social media stars for the precious links you share on Twitter - homaid
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June 30 at 6:57 am - Link
Plurk is the new microblogging webapp that has launched and that people are comparing to Twitter. However, both are very different. - Tamar Weinberg
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June 27 at 2:16 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
This guy should start a blog. I think he'd then get job offers relatively quickly. - Tamar Weinberg via Bookmarklet
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June 27 at 2:12 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Facebook might be big, but this was just annoying to watch. I'm sorry, but if I'm jealous of someone else's success due to a similar idea, I'm not going to start a lawsuit. The lack of substantial evidence seems to be on my side. And yeah, $15 billion was overvalued. - Tamar Weinberg via Bookmarklet
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Twitter Whale Fail
June 6 at 12:25 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Twitter Fail Whale - Igor The Troll
Somebody recommended that I should add @Scobleizer harpooning the Whale! I think it is a good idea to have Captain Ahab sink the Whale. As I was looking at this picture I realized that Dead fish Float upside down in the water. Twitter is a Fail Whale. - Igor The Troll
I love Fishing! - Igor The Troll
Twitter Whale in Fail Heaven! lol - Igor The Troll
This is so sad! @Scobelizer would never harpoon FailWhale. They are simbiotic! One may not be able to exist without the other. Ahab would no longer have his purpose! - Fail Whale Groupie
He's going to crush those poor little birds! Tweetsplat! - Liz
This is Going to become the most popular thread on FF. We even have the Fail Whale Groupie! LOL - Igor The Troll
Hilarious. Being pulled down into doom by devil birds? - Josh Lowensohn
I just checked my domain stats and this baby is very popular! Go Twitter Fail Whale! lol - Igor The Troll
Twitter Whale Fail Alert Defcon 3 - Igor The Troll
Twitter still FuckedUp! Can someone just Shoot the Whale... - Igor The Troll
I'm not even getting a Fail Whale - just times out. Also, no word to developers on the Twitter mailing list. Surely they can't be having record traffic can they??? - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Maybe Robert Scoble spotted the Whale and Trying to Harpoon it! Just imagine if he sends a few Tweets the Whale sinks! - Igor The Troll
We should put @Scobleizer on Twitter probation! Limit him to three Tweets a day! Why should all of us go hungry because he is a such a greedy Pig. - Igor The Troll
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June 26 at 8:12 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Am I a social media addict? Well, I'm in the running for one. Vote for your favorite. - Tamar Weinberg via Bookmarklet
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June 24 at 2:10 pm - Link
A $1000 golden sundae. - Tamar Weinberg
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June 24 at 8:38 am - Link
Cool information about the 7-11 franchise. - Tamar Weinberg
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June 24 at 6:20 am - Link
Babies posing as kittens... or vice versa. - Tamar Weinberg
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June 23 at 8:08 am - Link
Man survives shock by lightning bolt. - Tamar Weinberg
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Weird story, but very cool if true! - Tamar Weinberg
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June 20 at 12:26 pm - Link
"Fair and good, St0n3y, but that's what Netflix offers, so they should actually honor that request. I think I read about this on TechCrunch once about how the more active users actually cost the company more. The company still needs to accommodate those users in the same fashion (imo) regardless. Oh, and I am a Netflix subscriber, though I wouldn't consider myself to be that active." - Tamar Weinberg
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June 20 at 9:20 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Everyone is leaving! - Tamar Weinberg via Bookmarklet
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June 20 at 9:16 am - Link
"That's nuts. First Flickr, then delicious... wonder if it's got something to do with the social media direction Yahoo intends to take." - Tamar Weinberg
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June 20 at 9:14 am - Link
I don't own a Kindle, but maybe, now, I want one. - Tamar Weinberg
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Ultimate productivity desktop wallpaper. - Tamar Weinberg
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June 19 at 8:46 pm - Link
I'm noisy on Plurk, relatively quiet on Twitter, and I start a ruckus on my blog. :) - Tamar Weinberg
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June 19 at 6:23 am - Link
"Very useful indeed!" - Tamar Weinberg
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