Facebook Shocker: New Privacy Controls Sort of Naive

Chris Soghoian reports on Facebook’s new privacy controls, which feature the ability to classify what kinds of people can view particular elements of their profiles.

“This sounds like a great idea, and should be a significant benefit to those students who find that their Facebook-advertised parties were busted by police who found out about the events through the social-networking site.

“The primary problem is that Facebook has no way of determining what someone’s university status is. The company is only able to verify that the user has a valid .edu e-mail address, which could mean that the person is a student, staff member, professor, or alumni. As a result, Facebook asks users to self-report this information.

Publish iCal calendars with local WebDAV server

To publish your iCal Calendar with the bundled OS X Apache web server, edit Apache’s configuration file in /etc/httpd. You must be root, so I expect you know vi and the workings of this file in general. % sudo vi /etc/httpd/htttpd.conf In the Shared Library section, where modules are loaded, add these two lines in [...]