Nick O’Neill’s overview from before the simplified settings still has a lot of good information especially on the fine-grained Custom settings.

Nick O’Neill with suggested settings for the new Places feature. Most important thing here is probably to prevent other people from being able to check you in to places.

Apparently you can. Brian Ward explains howto.

Contains a link to the account deletion page, which is apparently quite difficult to find.

Office photocopiers are a significant information security problem because of their hard drives and network openness.

Merlin Mann on backing up with off-site rotation.

Thoughts and recommendations about design “leadgen” pages, with some examples from ecommerce and higher ed.

Overview article that looks at the most common types of web site and web application vulnerabilities.

IP address and browser characteristics feedback site.

Baekdal has some interesting data visualisations about mass media and attention over time.

U.S. government data in a variety of formats.

Reference of reported data breaches.

Dan Goodin on the state of browser security in mid-2008.

Tim O’Reilly gives a list of reasons why he likes Obama’s new Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra.

Steven Berlin Johnson on the changing nature of content and implications for the news business.

Facebook gets in on the demographic and behavioural ad targeting action. What are you doing right now? The advertisers are listening…

Kelly Fiveash on a recent Google Docs fuckup.

Menu design techniques for boosting sales.

It's a good question since it keeps coming up: should you run your e-mail services in-house or adopt free or cheap third-party hosted solutions. Many people commenting in this thread seem to see the former as more work than it's worth, and have liked the experience of moving to the latter.

Jonathan Jarvis's video explaining the credit crisis. Pretty good, except for the cheap shot semiotics of an "irresponsible" home buyer.

Bruce Schneier on data as risk, and the pollution of the Information Age. He talks about the need for discussion, planning and policy to deal with the impact of data persistence on privacy as a significant moment of societal change.

Alex Payne thinks that apps like Yojimbo aren't a good idea because they encourage the accumulation of structureless data.

New article skimmer interface, still in prototype stage.

XMCP's "why be scared of Google" article.

Josh Catone on password security.

John Leyden on a rather serious bank data breach.

Robert Hansen and Jeremiah Grossman explain clickjacking in detail.

Dan Goodin on the Twitter clickjacking incident.

David Robinson argues against newspapers charging ISPs for content access.

Nick O'Neill with Facebook privacy settings and tips.

All those facts and figures, you can search them.

Scott Schiller shows that the Twitter clickjack scam uses iframes to position a hidden link over the "Don't click" text—if you're logged in to Twitter when you click it, then your browser would generate a post on Twitter that propagates the message further.