Twitter Hacked!

Twitter was hit with a massive hack on Wednesday as some 50,000 user names and passwords were posted to the internet. This leak spanned five pages on Pastebin, a site where hackers post illegal files and hacks.

Twitter claims a major part of this information appears to be garbage (really?), in which there are many duplicates, some belonging to suspended spammers, and those that are believed to be fake accounts generated by robots.

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Facebook Ban On Comments?

I don't know what this user must have said or commented on, but it definitely did not go down well with the policies of the social networking site. I know they've got rules that govern users of the site but I have just not been faced with this kind of prompt seen right here.

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FBI Wants An Ear On Social Networking Sites!

The Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) is pushing for a law that will make them wiretap into social networking sites as well as other peer-to-peer services.

There has been the 1994's Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) that gives the law enforcement agency a direct back-door access to users' data during warranted investigations just as they began with carriers in 1994 and expanded to broadband providers in 2004.

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