Tag: HOAX

No, despite what you may have heard on Facebook and Twitter, Charlie Sheen is not yet dead. With the eye-catching title of "RIP! Charlie Sheen found Dead at his House," a massive clickjacking hoax is doing the rounds on Facebook and Twitter. Clicking the link will take you to a fake YouTube page -- and if you click anywhere on the page, the hoax will infect your Facebook profile and begin ...

This is just a quick note to say that, despite any rumors you may have heard over the weekend, Facebook is not shutting down. Mashable even went as far as to get a confirmation from Facebook's Director of Corporate Communications! It's a little bit worrying just how seriously the hoax was taken. Remember, though, that the average Facebook pleb won't know anything about its recent $50 billion ...

When you first run across SnapScouts, an Android app that offers FourSquare-style badges to kids who snap photos of their neighbors engaging in "suspicious activity," you might think it's for real. I mean, an app that employs children to create a creepy Orwellian police state where people inform on one another, a private company analyzes your photos for evidence of crimes, and privacy is basically ...

On Monday Slashdot reported that a Pennsylvania high school student had received two hours of detention for using the powerful Firefox web browser to do his classwork while in school. The original blog posting (including a scan of the detention letter) was dugg over 8000 times and outcry ensued. Turns out, the scanned letter was altered (Photoshop anyone?) and a response from the school principal ...