We saw an interesting social engineering technique on Twitter this morning which relies on anyone’s natural curiosity when their Twitter username is mentioned.
[WARNING: STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU DO NOT VISIT THE URL IN THIS EXAMPLE.]
These Twitter users have a robot set up which scans the public Twitter timeline looking for Tweets mentioning certain keywords.
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This post was written by @Drivelry on August 16, 2010
I think I lack a facial recognition gene. Yeah, I know nobody finds it easy to recognise people or remember their names. This is not what I’m talking about.
I can remember people’s names, I just can’t tell whether I’ve met them or not. My recognition techniques therefore include getting into inane conversations with them and hoping that by talking about nothing for a while something they say rings a bell.
Posted under Hate pets, Self doubt
This post was written by @Drivelry on May 9, 2010
Imagine as a small business owner you go and buy an office suite, off-plan in some big office development somewhere from those well known property developers Bodgett & Bludgett.
Now imagine that following the completion of your new office suite your property developer plasters large signs on every customer-facing entry point to your office saying ’Building designed and built by Bodgett & Bludgett Property Developers’.
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This post was written by @Drivelry on November 20, 2009
If you are a blogger just starting out, there is a bright shiny world of poor blogging advice to be discovered. It covers the full spectrum:
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This post was written by @Drivelry on August 5, 2009
A year ago I wrote an article titled ‘why write another blog‘ (the emphasis being on another if you take a look at the numbers of blogs out there) when I started Drivelry.com.
Now that I know most things there are to know about blogging I thought it was important to give something back to the community.
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This post was written by @Drivelry on July 7, 2009
Travel is an odd business. The more you think about it the odder it can seem.
We all ‘get’ the idea that it’s supposed to be ‘enriching’ and ‘inspirational’ but we actually arrive at a new city with a whole trolley-full of mental baggage. After all, that’s why we bought the ticket to that particular destination in the first place…
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This post was written by @Drivelry on June 19, 2009
We all like to think of ourselves as plugged into the zeitgeist. The web? Was there in ’95. LinkedIn profile? Got one years ago? Skype? Tick. Blog? Tick (you’re looking at it). SecondLife? I’m there. 24 x 7 online gadgets? Got them in spades.
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This post was written by @Drivelry on May 10, 2009