Want to keep Facebook from recognizing your face? Graphic designer Simone C. Niquille designed a shirt that distracts Facebook’s facial recognition software. Covered with images of celebrity look-alikes, the RealFace Glamoflage shirts pull the facial recognition software’s attention away from their wearers’ faces. Niquille launched the clever shirts as part of her bizarre masters thesis in graphic design.
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How the Bible Is Telling Hackers Your Passwords
It turns out the new passwords you keep coming up with for your accounts are actually from the Old Testament. So the Bible is now giving your passwords away to hackers or anyone else who has read it, according to a new report on the future of password cracking. Password security researcher Kevin Young told… Continue reading How the Bible Is Telling Hackers Your Passwords
4 Things You Didn’t Know Facebook Knew About You
Your Facebook profile may know you better than your spouse does.
4 Signs Your Romantic Partner Is Creeping You on Facebook
Your romantic partner may be spending a lot of time on your Facebook profile. Though Facebook won’t confirm or deny it, two Ohio communications professors just released a study on which types of people are most likely to use Facebook to creep on their romantic partners. Could your partner fit into one of these personality… Continue reading 4 Signs Your Romantic Partner Is Creeping You on Facebook
What’s Behind the Social Media Mind of Anthony Weiner?
Freedom of expression is America’s favorite freedom, by a wide margin. But you would think someone running for a political office would know there are limits to that freedom. Former New York congressman and present Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner hasn’t been able to keep his name out of the headlines lately. Infamous for sending… Continue reading What’s Behind the Social Media Mind of Anthony Weiner?
What is the NSA Really Up To? [COMIC]
Why is the NSA making us want to quit the Internet? via joyoftech
7 Creepy Things You Can Do with Facebook’s Graph Search
Today Facebook announced that the beta version of a tool called Graph Search will soon roll out to all its US English users. Unlike traditional Web search, Graph Search lets you ask questions like, “What restaurants do my friends like?” or perform cross searches like, say, “Pictures of my friends who are models.” Over the… Continue reading 7 Creepy Things You Can Do with Facebook’s Graph Search
NSA Independance Day [COMIC]
It’s clear that Americans have become fed up with the NSA and other government programs spying on all of their phone calls, emails and other internet activity. ‘Restore the Fourth’ rallies are gathering in 50 cities nationwide this July 4th to protest these unconventional surveillance tactics that appear to violate not only our privacy, but… Continue reading NSA Independance Day [COMIC]
