Techmeme: Pope says internet users risk ‘solitude’ (Agence France Presse)

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Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar — The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here's how it works: — Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network. In other words, a WiFi network that doesn't require a password before you can connect to it.

Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:

Firesheep, enterprise software and other broken models — There has been a lot of fuss about FireSheep, a browser plugin that show how easy it is to intercept packets on the internet, and masquerade as someone else. The idea is nothing new: EtherPeg—which intercepts wifi traffic and shows …

Thanks:kevinmarks

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

What's That Torrent Thing Google Keeps Suggesting? — Thanks to Google people have all the world's knowledge at their fingertips. Simply type in a few words and the search engine usually returns hundreds of thousands of related websites - some background info on your favorite musician for example …

Discussion: Techie Buzz

Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:

GoDaddy Replaces .Com with .Co, Now Default Choice — A big lift for .co this weekend as world's largest registrar promotes .co to top of search box. — You might be in for a bit of a surprise if you visit GoDaddy today. This is what the search box looks like: — That's right.

Discussion: The Next Web, SEO and Tech Daily, Elliot's Blog, Techie Buzz and The Atlantic Online

Cole Stryker / Urlesque:

4chan Users Try to DDoS Tumblr, Tumblrs Raid 4chan in Revenge — The final phase of Operation Overlord, 4chan's loosely-orchestrated effort to bring down Tumblr, is on. And this time they're bringing their LOIC's. LOIC stands for Lower Orbit Ion Cannon, the nickname of a program that will DoS …

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Irrationality, Welcome Back to Silicon Valley — Wow, finally people noticed. — All it took was Google to supposedly offer $3.5 million to an engineer to not go to Facebook. Now, that is what rational people would call cutting off the nose to spite the face. But these are not rational times.

Discussion: Scobleizer and TechCrunch

Ryan Singel / Epicenter:

Singel-Minded: How Facebook Could Beat Google to Win the Net — ANALYSIS — In 1993, The New Yorker ran a famous cartoon with two dogs near a computer, with one mutt telling the other “On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog.” — Oh, how times have changed.

Tom Krazit / Relevant Results: Why you're a pawn in Facebook vs. Google

Greg Peters / The Netflix Blog:

Netflix on Android — Hi, this is Greg Peters, from Netflix product development. We recently announced the availability of Netflix on Windows Phone 7 devices, which, alongside the iPhone, represents the second mobile phone platform we have enabled for streaming from Netflix.

Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Netflix headed to ‘select Android devices’ early next year

Discussion: Electronista and Pulse2

Horace Dediu / asymco: Is Android fragmented by design?

Agence France Presse:

Pope says internet users risk ‘solitude’ — VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday warned that the Internet does not make people more humane but instead risks increasing a “sense of solitude and disorientation” among “numbed” young people. — “A large number of young people …

Discussion: Life On the Wicked Stage and Gawker

Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:

You've Got FMail — The news on Monday appears to be that Facebook will reinvent email. TechCrunch says it's the long awaited Gmail killer. Others say it's Gmail inventor Paul Buchheit's project since he came to Facebook in the FriendFeed acquisition. Paul says he hasn't been working on that …

Discussion: Mario Sundar, Thanks:mariosundar

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Verizon's Pantech and LG LTE modems leak out in ad form — Verizon's promised a 38-city LTE launch by the end of the year, and it looks like things are ramping up — we were just sent this ad for the LG VL600 and Pantech UML290 4G USB modems. We've seen the VL600 at the FCC and in the wild before …

Discussion: Gizmodo, FierceBroadbandWireless and SlashGear

Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:

Google Maps Privacy: The Street View & Wifi Scorecard — It seems not a week goes by without news of a new investigation into Google's Street View service, or into Google's collection of personal data via unencrypted WiFi networks that occurred over three years as Street View vehicles drove the world's streets.

Thanks:mattmcgee

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