Comments on: why Orkut makes people insecure

By: //gtmcknight

//gtmcknight — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:58:35 +0000

Orkut Rethought

I know this whole spiel comes a bit late, considering this topic was *so* 2 weeks ago, but I felt the necessity to explain why I deleted most of my friends, groups, and have become utterly uninterested in checking my…

By: Christopher Allen

Christopher Allen — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:25:09 +0000

I’ve added a new post at http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/02/confirmed_email.html that discussed a confirmed privacy hole where if you send an message, anyone who you sent it to who recieves it as email gets your real email address in a Reply-To: header of the email, even if your preferences are set never to give out your email.

I’ve also suggested a specific ‘Orkut Beta’ group to be a centralized place on Orkut to discuss and disseminate Orkut issues, at least until they have a more official method.

By: Phil Wolff

Phil Wolff — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 06:53:50 +0000

Spoken like one one of the popular kids in school, Abe. Correct, but…

Where do you want it to go? What is more? vs. better? What is orthogonal, taking yasns in new directions?

By: Abe

Abe — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:04:30 +0000

not just broken in the same way as its ancestors, but also broken in dozens of ways that they aren’t. It’s like a case study in why stereotypical geeks are socially inept…