• Twitter unmasks anonymous Brit – Twitter has turned over to UK authorities the name, email address and telephone number of a man behind an anonymous account that allegedly libeled local government officials by tweeting that they used drugs, rigged ballots, and falsified expenses.
• How not to waste time browsing teh interwebs – How many times have you sat down to spend the 15 minutes you’ve so carefully carved out of your day to spend on Twitter, and then looked at the clock to find that 30 have passed and what have you been doing? Clicking all sorts of links and getting sucked down the rabbit hole of teh interwebs. (Yes, we know, "teh interwebs", it's an old in-joke)
• How to properly protect your Facebook account, login – Lots of tips on making your Facebook account safer, but one thought occurred to me as I was reading this gHacks post: instead of giving a site your pet's name, mother's unmarried name or any of that other personal, private information, use that field to add another tough-to-crack password (and keep a well-protected record of it offline). E.g. When they ask for your mother's unmarried name, don't give it away by typing Smith, use a strong password like fhfhrYFHry&^t6492dh48fg&! instead…and use a different security answer on all sites, just as you *do* with passwords…
• facebook-account”>Don’t accept friend requests from people who aren’t friends – Here's a reason to keep your enemies close but your "friends" at a distance. A rather clever hacker realised that it is possible to "plant" false friends on a person's account and then use Facebook's password reset system to get that account's password by bypassing email and SMS reset. Apparently, if you tell Facebook that you no longer have access to your email account(s) or mobile phone, you'll get the common security question prompt. If you answer the security question wrong (or a hacker does), you can verify your account by sending codes to 3 friends. Trouble is, a hacker could plant fake friends into your account—if you automatically accept them—and then go through this process to reset your Facebook password.
• Privacy matters especially when you’ve nothing to hide – We've all heard the "if you've got nothing to hide, what are you complaining about" argument concerning violations of privacy. Well, would you mind showing me your credit card bills for the last year? How about sharing those photos of your naked spouse? We all have a right to privacy especially if we have nothing to hide, people who gather private information lose it, share it without reason and make mistakes in interpreting it. This is the most compelling argument for being allowed to keep your personal data private. If you choose to you share it with the world on Facebook and elsewhere, then at least it's your choice.
• Chrome OS not as secure as it looks – Chrome OS boasts that each process runs in its own sandbox, which developers claim means that if an application is malicious or compromised it is unable to interact with or otherwise affect other applications or processes on the system. But Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro points out that exploits which break out of sandboxing have already been demonstrated for Internet Explorer, Java, Google Android and the Chrome browser. "While the Google sandbox is effective, it is not impenetrable and to rely on it for 100% security would be short-sighted," he said.

David Bradley selects six stories from the technology sector