Walter Soldierer’s Blog

One of my favorite podcasts is Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte. I am a long term subscriber, actually I didn’t miss a single episode so far. Finally, after 2 years of enjoying Security Now and applying the lessons learned both at home and at work, I was able to give something back. Steve:

One of our listeners, actually very courteous, a Walter Soldierer I think is how I pronounce his name, he provided me with the name of the guy at VeriSign, and email address, who’s in charge of the whole PIP technology program. His name is Gary Krall at VeriSign. I sent Gary a piece of email saying, hey, I was really glad to get your name and email.

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I just saw a new privacy checkbox in my Facebook account settings:

[ ] Allow my public search listing to be indexed by external search engines (ex. Google, Yahoo, MSN)

In about 2 weeks, public profile information (only image and name) will be spiderable. A good idea. Most social networking sites already allow search engines to list their user’s public profile pages. This is a logical next step now that anyone can seach people on Facebook without having to sign up first . More info is available on the Facebook blog.