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Farmville hoax a-tractor

I’ve mentioned elsewhere [1] that Facebook has become a valuable supplementary channel for the hoaxers who in the past have tended to spread chain letters by snailmail and, more recently, by email and...

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April 1st Re-revisited

Really a footnote to a footnote… One day I’ll do some serious writing about the more subtle implications of the April Fool tradition, but not today. 2010 saw a pretty good crop of April 1st hoaxes,...

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A Tweetucopia

Picked up via Twitter and of some relevance to this blog. Graham Cluley [@gcluley]: The world’s worst McDonalds customer? Beware (yet another) rogue Facebook app spreading rapidly http://bit.ly/aBCrrM...

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UK census data: don’t panic

Update: as I rather suspected would happen, LulzSec have disclaimed any attempt to hack the Census data, or responsibility for the pastebin.com post. They’ve also denied that the Essex hacker is one of...

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