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Digital Cowboys: A Serious Deworming

The Digital Cowboys — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:44:14 +0000

Each week, we invite one listener to bring in his or her sick computer for us to work on. This week, Dale brought in an ill Dell with Windows XP, infected with the nasty FBI MoneyPak virus that demanded he pay $200 before unlocking his computer.

Dale brought his computer into the Corral yesterday and asked us to fix it without losing all of his personal files. "We'll see what we can do," Jon told him.

Did Facebook Release Your Private Information?

Jon Green — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:01:08 +0000

Monday afternoon, we posted a story about Facebook inadvertently publishing many users' private messages in their Timeline history. Facebook subsequently claimed the mix-up was a false alarm: people were mis-remembering old wall posts as private messages.

Many Facebook users, however, continued to claim they had in fact had private messages released into the wild. I remain uncertain about my own Timeline page - which remains locked down at this point. So did Facebook mess up, or not?

UPDATED: Facebook Says Privacy Breach 'False' Rumor – BBC

Jon Green — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:00:42 +0000

Update: The BBC is reporting the postings are actually public posts. It can be difficult to remember what's public and what's not when dealing with messages/posts that are four or five years old. But this is a good reminder that anything on the internet - even if you think it to be private - probably isn't.