Alaska is famous for having iconic animal life: bears, moose, caribou, bison, yaks, deer, mountain goats, Dall sheep, and whales. But no animal is as available for tourists to observe than the bald eagle.
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Keeping Score – Solving the Problem of Fake Accounts
Social media is flooded with fake accounts. One way of solving that riddle is to introduce a scale, or a score, that will verify that the account is a real person or busin
The Trials of Alaska Communications (ACS)
For most of my IT career I worked in some aspect of security. I have seen some pretty strange stuff but ranking near the top is the way ACS handles the customer’s password.
Facebook and Death
I recently posted invites to a garage sale. I created an event in Facebook which eventually presented an opportunity to designate who will receive the invite. Amongst the list of friends I counted seven that I knew had been deceased.
Facebook and The Forensics of Phantom Buyers
In April this year I wrote an article on what I call “phantom buyers”, these pretend accounts on Facebook that exploit security vulnerabilities in Facebook’s Marketplace. I have been heavily engaged in Facebook’s Marketplace for the past few months because we are preparing to move back to Missouri. So I have been quite intrigued by the frequent encounters with “phantom buyer