Dominic White

Today my blog turned six, and I tweeted that fact with the following:

My blog http://singe.za.net/ turned 6 today. The fact that I'm tweeting this rather than blogging it is probably significant.

While blogging remains more a more satisfying and useful means of exploring a thought, twitter let's you skip the work and move onto the conversation (sometimes) a bit sooner, but without any decent record of that conversation occurring (twitter's searchable memory is too short). I'm certainly going to continue blogging, but I don't see my throughput increasing much. Luckily, subscribing to an RSS feed is only a cost if there are too many updates ;).

That being said, I think there's been some fun stuff on the blog in the last year, my favourite posts have been:

• Using Maltego to Data Mine Twitter
• Conficker Claims it's first Human Life
• My first guest post - Efficient extraction of data using binary search and ordering information
• Deloitte -> SensePost for a personal milestone (there was another personal milestone, my marriage, but that wasn't much of a blog entry).

Posted by Dominic White

This week something special happened, something I'd been saving for the right person, something magical. Today, hackers took my private data. Everything's changed, I feel like a part of the world, connected to so many other people who have shared in this experience. Today, I'm a woman! (Ok, I may have gone a bit far with that last bit)

The skinny is that I use unique e-mail addresses for each service provider that I want to continue communicating with (for the ones I don't I use one-shot addresses). I noticed on the weekend that I was being deluged with pharmaceutical spam to three of these addresses, namely my Threadsy, Numbuzz & Share-it (via a product I bought there, ChatterBlocker) contacts. This lead me to tweet: "Either a security or ethics breach at @threadsy & @nimbuzz Getting Viagra spammed hard on the unique e-mail addresses I gave them."

Continue reading "Breach at iContact exposes my (and your) details to Spammers"

Posted by Dominic White