A Facebook worry has gone viral, with a warning of this sort appearing all over the timeline: "If you receive a friend request from me, my account has been hacked." Some are dismissive of the threat. Here's what's actually going on: Facebook accounts are being cloned, not hacked. Scammers can...
Posted by Michael Bates on October 8, 2018 12:24 PM
Time for a public service announcement. Seems like this comes up about once a month, so I'm putting it here on BatesLine, so that I can easily "refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago." Yet another rash of Facebook spam should serve as a reminder...
Posted by Michael Bates on August 1, 2011 10:33 PM
I have a couple of technological frustrations that I would like to vent: 1. I plug an external hard drive into a USB port on my laptop. The drive is a USB 2.0 device, capable of transferring data at 480 Mbps. The laptop is new enough so that all of...
Posted by Michael Bates on February 17, 2010 11:40 PM
This instructional film from the 1950s explains the mistakes young people make in dealing with relationships via Facebook. Dig the steampunk computer and camera: (Via Christian Clark on -- what else? -- Facebook.)...
Posted by Michael Bates on April 15, 2009 11:12 PM
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