Think back for a moment to the early days of the Internet when domain name registrations were free. Imagine how rich you would be if you had thought to reserve “internet.com”, “business.com”, or any two or three letter domain name for that matter. Twitter attempts to limit reservations by requiring a unique email address for each sign-up. That is circumvented by using the Google “plus sign” email trick. Simply append something (your new Twitter ID for instance) to your Google email address like stiennon+itharvest@gmail.com. Gmail treats that as stiennon@gmail.com but Twitter thinks it is unique. It turns out you can just make up any old email address and Twitter will allow you to create a new ID.
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Welcome to the surveillance state
The moment of truth is about to arrive in Britain with the deployment of the first major government biometric programs: ID cards (initially for foreign workers) carrying fingerprint records will be launched next month while automated immigration gates have begun recognition checks on passengers carrying the new generation of passports arriving at Manchester Airport.
British passports now carry chips that record facial recognition data but will eventually add fingerprints.
”One issue that remains is the speed with which data can be downloaded from the computer chip (in British passports),” says Mark Lockie, editor of Biometric Technology Today and program director of this week’s conference.
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