Glitch exposes identities of Amazon reviewers

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Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers

Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers 02/14/2004 01:04 AM
A glitch on Amazon.com's Canadian site revealed the identities of people who had anonymously posted book reviews on the U.S. site.

Paper: Glitch Identifies Amazon
Reviewers (AP)

Paper: Glitch Identifies Amazon
Reviewers (AP) 02/14/2004 10:50 AM
AP - Many sign their names. Many don't. They're the book reviewers on Amazon.com who use such words as "masterful," "page-turner" and "tear-jerker." But the ones who sign their critiques only as "a reader from (fill in the city)" lost their anonymity this week when their identities were revealed on Amazon.com's Canadian Web site.

Paper: Glitch identifies Amazon
reviewers

Paper: Glitch identifies Amazon
reviewers 02/14/2004 10:52 AM
Boston Globe Feb 14 2004 3:45PM GMT

Computer Glitch Identifies Anonymous
Amazon Reviewers

Computer Glitch Identifies Anonymous
Amazon Reviewers 02/14/2004 09:07 PM
The glitch, reported Saturday by The New York Times, replaced pseudonyms with reviewers' real names, laying bare a culture of self-promotion and potential for revenge among authors and users of Amazon.

Amazon accidentally revealed the real
names of many anonymous reviewers this
week, through a bug in the amazon.ca
back-end

Amazon accidentally revealed the real
names of many anonymous reviewers this
week, through a bug in the amazon.ca
back-end 02/14/2004 03:55 PM
unmasked .. glitch

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Amazon reviewers unmasked

Amazon reviewers unmasked 02/16/2004 03:42 AM
USA Today Feb 16 2004 7:40AM GMT

E-mail glitch exposes private data in
California

E-mail glitch exposes private data in
California 07/06/2004 05:07 PM
Officials in Contra Costa County, Calif., have launched an investigation into how hundreds of internal e-mails containing private employee data were sent out inadvertently to a Swedish company.

Amazon denies gift glitch rumours

Amazon denies gift glitch rumours 12/24/2004 12:39 PM
Net retailer Amazon dismisses a report that it is failing to get orders delivered in time for Christmas.

One man, 60-plus identities

One man, 60-plus identities 12/24/2004 01:11 PM
Happy Holidays everybody! It's that time of year when it seems our biggest identity problem is "Will I remember who and where I am if I have another round of egg nog?" But there's one guy who goes through a major identity crisis each year at this time.

Fleeting identities

Fleeting identities 02/10/2004 12:00 PM
How do you know you are at a geek conference? People get introduced to you by their IRC nicks, and you don't actually realize until the next morning that you still don't know their real names, despite having met them in real life.

(Oh yeah, and I *do* love bagels. I only wish we could get some decent ones back home. I may have to carry a few back...)

The best thing about identities - is
that there are so many of them

The best thing about identities - is
that there are so many of them 12/31/2004 10:59 AM

We used to use that line when we referred to standards.

Wi shing that the world would coalesce around a single standard:

a) ignores the fact that there is Microsoft. So choose your category wisely and stay under the radar, as Microsoft - no matter what - will come up with their own thing. In the case of subscription formats - they actually PRECEDED RSS with something called CDF. But since it failed, that gave Dave Winer an opportunity of getting RSS going "user the radar" until it was too late for Microsoft to stop him.

b) assuming that there will ever be a single digital identity standard - is wrong. Kim Cameron raps out his beliefs - which he calls "The Fifth Law of Identity". I totally agree with Kim that a meta-identity format is needed to brdge and connect together all of these disparate systems.

c) is rather naive and clearly sees the digital identity space as one thing. It's not. What digital identity is to the FOAF nerds or Tantek Celik's XFN cult is completely different than how the i-names folks or Sxip Network sees it. And I haven't even brought up the enterprise wonks - lile PingID. Or the god head Craig Burton or his nemisis Kim Cameron. We all see this space as something completely different.

So - by definition - we (at best) can at least hope for some sort of meta-standard.

God bless the meta-directory gods.

UPDATE: Craig Burton raps it our succinctly - like only he can.

The law of pluralism is contrary to the laws of customer control. Let's be clear, the law of pluralism requires operating system independence--by definition. This means the Microsoft Identity Archtiect is calling for a system that is not necissarily Windows centric by design. This--of course--is the only way such a system can really work--but consider the implications.

A cross platfrom identity metasystem sun-spot hot and--with the other laws being discussed here--changes everything.

[Craig Burton: logs, links, life, and lexicon]

Mapping identities

Mapping identities 04/16/2005 10:09 AM
Express Computer India Apr 16 2005 2:14PM GMT

New project and identities

New project and identities 01/02/2004 03:33 AM

Jeff Nichols has been working for almost a year on an intranet project for a large company. Jeff’s a smart guy with an interesting blog. That tells me that his project is probably interesting with lots of tough problems to solve. Thanks to Jeff, I’m now working on that project as well. The project is fascinating but I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to share about it; probably not much more than anecdotes and general things learned. I’ll find out more about that when I get started next week.

The structure of the project is a bit interesting. I’ll be working for a consulting shop who has the contract with the end client. The project isn’t a full time gig, although it will keep me quite busy the next two months, but the consulting shop asked me to become a part-time employee in order to simplify their accounting. So for the first time in more than two years I’m an employee again. I’ll be working remotely, dealing directly with the client, and largely setting my own hours, so it’s much the same as what I’ve been doing for the last couple of years. Still, something about being an employee feels different.

This change has made me think once again about my professional identity. I started a blog entry on the subject almost exactly one year ago but never finished it, partly because I couldn’t effectively put my thoughts into words. And partly was because I figured no one would really care. I was thinking too much about my audience and not enough about myself. But I find that I think about the subject often and writing about it helps my thoughts coalesce. What I’m trying to say is that for the rest of this entry I’m writing for me. If you aren’t me you might not be particularly interested in what follows.

I started consulting two years ago when the company I was working for went under. It was the third time in 12 months that I’d been laid off when a startup went under. I was laid off (the third time) on October 31, 2001 as the economy was softening. After looking for a job and collecting unemployment for a while, I ended up with a bit of contract work for projects run by people I knew from past companies. A few months later, I decided to formalize the contracting I was doing and converted this site from a personal site and blog to a site advertising my services and professional blog. You can still see the old site in se veral incarnations (mostly without stylesheets or images) in the Internet Archive.

Since then I’ve waffled between wanting to appear as a big company and positioning myself as an independant consultant. What I’ve finally decided on is being myself. People that want to hire me for a project want to hire me, not a faceless company. People hire me for my experience and expertise, not because I have a team of people ready to swing into action for them. The voice of this blog is mine, the thoughts and ideas presented here are mine. If you like them, perhaps you’ll hire me. If not, then we probably wouldn’t have worked well together anyway. (I even experimented with writing this blog as we instead of I, but I didn’t like it.)

So that’s who I am, an independent consultant. Perhaps one day I’ll be in such demand that I’ll need to hire a staff to help with the work, but for now it’s just me. So if you want to talk to me about some work, whether it’s a small project, a short- or long-term contract, or even a permanent position with your company, let me know.

Glitch, glitch, glitch, but not everyone
had complaints

Glitch, glitch, glitch, but not everyone
had complaints 07/25/2004 09:03 PM
SiliconValley.com Jul 26 2004 0:36AM GMT

Using Cameraphones to Steal Identities

Using Cameraphones to Steal Identities 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

There's a bit of a scare story on Florida Today about criminals using cameraphones to steal personal information from you, like credit card numbers or ATM PINs. While no arrests have been made—in fact, it's all speculation!—there's an important lesson we can learn from all of this: pay for everything by trading bales of home-spun quilts.

Crimi nals' new gadget: Camera cell phones to gain ID info [FloridaToday]

Interrogators hid identities
(USATODAY.com)

Interrogators hid identities
(USATODAY.com) 05/28/2004 06:26 AM
USATODAY.com - Efforts to determine who orchestrated the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison may be complicated by the ways in which many military intelligence officials, covert U.S. agents and civilian contractors obscured their identities.

CSU Chico Identities Compromised

CSU Chico Identities Compromised 03/22/2005 07:17 PM

"Nuances of gay identities reflected in
new language "

"Nuances of gay identities reflected in
new language " 02/11/2004 03:46 AM

ActiveWin.com: Reviewers Wanted

ActiveWin.com: Reviewers Wanted 05/05/2004 02:03 PM
We are looking for reviewers who are interested in the Home/Office (Project, Visio, MapPoint, etc.) and the Server product (Live Communication Server, etc.) categories. As you know, we generally review Microsoft products; however there is the flexibility to request from other manufacturers. If you are interested, please e-mail bobstein@activewin.com stating which product/category you are interested in. We generally provide the software; however, having your own connections is a plus. Serious inquiries only, please save our time and yours!

Internet job site reviewers

Internet job site reviewers 12/03/2003 06:21 AM
Online Recruitment Dec 3 2003 6:14AM ET

High-tech moves to protect identities

High-tech moves to protect identities 11/12/2003 01:12 PM
Melbourne Age Nov 12 2003 10:45AM ET

Twins Swap Identities for Jail Break
(AP)

Twins Swap Identities for Jail Break
(AP) 12/22/2004 01:02 AM
AP - Brotherly love was put to the test this week after two 18-year-old identical twins swapped their clothing and traded places so that one could escape jail.

Reviewers needed for Make magazine

Reviewers needed for Make magazine 08/14/2004 03:06 PM
As I announced a couple of weeks ago, I'm editing a soon-to-be launched magazine for O'Reilly Media called Make.

One section of the magazine will have users' reviews of tools, software, gadgets, and instructional books, magazines, websites, mailing lists, videos, etc. If you have come across something like this that you like a lot and are interested in writing about it for Make, please email me with the details.

Up north, anonymous reviewers revealed

Up north, anonymous reviewers revealed 02/14/2004 01:29 PM
globetechnology.com Feb 14 2004 4:06PM GMT

Book reviewers/testers wanted...

Book reviewers/testers wanted... 05/04/2004 11:54 PM
No, not the macosxhints book (though I am finally hard at work on an update), but Erica Sadun's new O'Reilly book, tentatively titled 'Customizing OS X Applications.' Erica's looking for a few hardy souls to test some of the ...

Reviewers take dual-core Pentium for a
spin

Reviewers take dual-core Pentium for a
spin 04/05/2005 05:24 PM
Blog: Reviewers are beginning to kick the tires on Intel's dual-core Pentiums, due out later this quarter. Several sites,...

Ohio liquor cops steal citizen
identities, and it's legal?

Ohio liquor cops steal citizen
identities, and it's legal? 04/13/2005 03:52 AM
Xeni Jardin: State liquor officials in Ohio hired a woman to pose undercover as a stripper -- and gave her someone else's driver's license for an assumed identity, based on a bizarre interpretation of state law.

Haley Dawson has never been a stripper. But Ohio liquor-control agents took her identity and gave it to a 22-year-old college student who they had recruited to work undercover as a nude dancer.

As part of an investigation that resulted in nothing more than misdemeanor charges, police paid University of Dayton criminal-justice student Michelle Szuhay $100 a night to take it all off in early 2003 — as liquor-control officers drank beer and watched in the audience for three months, court papers show.

Other officers watched her strip on the Internet, using an account created under the identity of a dead man. The officers did all this by using Dawson’s driver’s license and Social Security number to hide Szuhay’s identity while she worked at the targeted strip club, the now-closed Total Xposure in Troy. To Dawson’s father, David Dawson, "It certainly looks like identity theft."

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Systems Management Server 2003:
Reviewers Guide

Systems Management Server 2003:
Reviewers Guide 04/21/2004 01:01 PM
Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 is a strategic solution for addressing information technology (IT) and business issues in the software management of Windows-based desktops, laptops, and servers. A number of new features in SMS 2003 enable corporations to become more focused on reducing IT costs while providing a comprehensive solution that addresses and resolves enterprise change and configuration needs.

DTI consults on plan to link your phone
numbers, locations, identities, email

DTI consults on plan to link your phone
numbers, locations, identities, email 08/20/2004 02:31 AM
PublicTechnology.net Aug 20 2004 7:22AM GMT

British restaurant reviewers compare
food to baby puke.

British restaurant reviewers compare
food to baby puke. 11/11/2003 08:07 PM
He sees Amazon and Google as "harbingers of a new kind of history, where the world's information is not only more plentiful and diverse, but astonishingly ...

One Group That's Not Polarized: 9 out of
10 Film Reviewers for Daily Papers Back
'Fahrenheit' 9/28

One Group That's Not Polarized: 9 out of
10 Film Reviewers for Daily Papers Back
'Fahrenheit' 9/28 06/28/2004 06:31 AM
Critics in general are giving it good reviews

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BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS Makes its
Mark on Daily Gadget and KickStartNews
Reviewers

BugMe! Notepad for Palm OS Makes its
Mark on Daily Gadget and KickStartNews
Reviewers 06/23/2004 02:36 AM
Recently published reviews by The Daily Gadget and KickStartNews agree that BugMe! Notepad, a completely re-designed version of Electric Pocket’s famous BugMe! note-taking and reminder-alarm application, is a ‘must have’ for Palm OS 5.x handhelds and smartphones. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

OS X Bug Exposes .Mac Passwords?

OS X Bug Exposes .Mac Passwords? 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
OS X 10.2.4 can potentially expose .Mac members' passwords. MacNN reports that this is a bug that occurs in the Keychain application and only affects .Mac users. But before you get all panicky, according to Mac OSX Hints, this is not so much a bug as it is just an insecure setting, and they provide easy instructions for solving the problem.

OS X 10.2.4 Bug Exposes .Mac Passwords

OS X 10.2.4 Bug Exposes .Mac Passwords 03/19/2003 10:23 PM
MacNN via MyAppleMenu

WSJ Exposes Wi-Fi Range Woes

WSJ Exposes Wi-Fi Range Woes 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
Wall Street Journal talks to home Wi-Fi users who can't seem to get the range they need even on small homes: It's a growing problem, and well explored in this article, that home users are finding that Wi-Fi's limited range can't cover an entire ranch-style home, much less a big apartment--or one with thick walls. The article mentions several solutions, all of which involve additional access points or devices that promise more range. It misses just one of my favorite solutions: HomePlug. HomePlug lets you run 14 Mbps over home electrical wiring, and even has a Wi-Fi access point version to extend a network into areas that a signal otherwise wouldn't reach....

Man Exposes Self During Airport
Screening (AP)

Man Exposes Self During Airport
Screening (AP) 07/14/2004 08:33 AM
AP - Daryl Miller didn't make it through airport security because he couldn't keep his pants on.

Stolen laptop exposes data of 100,000

Stolen laptop exposes data of 100,000 03/28/2005 11:33 PM
San Jose Mercury News Mar 29 2005 3:47AM GMT

Stolen Laptop Exposes Data of 100,000
(AP)

Stolen Laptop Exposes Data of 100,000
(AP) 03/28/2005 07:31 PM
AP - A thief has stolen a computer laptop containing personal information about nearly 100,000 University of California, Berkeley alumni, graduate students and past applicants, continuing a recent outbreak of security breakdowns that has illustrated society's growing vulnerability to identity theft.

Firefox, Mozilla Bug Exposes Data

Firefox, Mozilla Bug Exposes Data 04/05/2005 04:14 AM
Both Firefox and the Mozilla browser suite are vulnerable to attacks through flawed JavaScript engines, a security firm reported Monday.
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