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Twitter for Websites

In yesterday’s post, I tried out the Hugo shortcode for embedding tweets from Twitter.

After having gone to some effort to remove external assets from my website, it’s not great that this shortcode will automatically include JavaScript from the Twitter website. The way that Twitter for Websites seems to work is that the JavaScript provides enhancement but the JavaScript is not required for the content to work. This is great, as it means that content still works when syndicated on planets or viewed in an RSS reader or through a text-only browser.

MAC Catching

As we walk around with mobile phones in our pockets, there are multiple radios each with identifiers that can be captured and recorded just through their normal operation. Bluetooth and Wifi devices have MAC addresses and can advertise their presence to other devices merely by sending traffic, or by probing for devices to connect to if they’re not connected.

I found a simple tool, probemon that allows for anyone with a wifi card to track who is at which location at any given time. You could deploy a few of these with Raspberry Pis or even go even cheaper with a number of ESP8266.

Facebook Lies

In the past, I had a Facebook account. Long ago I “deleted” this account through the procedure outlined on their help pages. In theory, 14 days after I used this process my account would be irrevocably gone. This was all lies.

My account was not deleted and yesterday I received an email:

Screenshot of the email I received from Facebook

It took me a moment to figure it out, but what had happened here is someone had logged into my Facebook account using my email address and password. Facebook simply reactivated the account, which had not had its data deleted, as if I had logged in.

Contact

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