Fortunately, not every cybercrook in the world is a good coder. Let’s hope it stays that way…
Daily Archives: June 17, 2014
User-shaming robot Pic Nix banned by Instagram
The plus: it used a nifty, Arduino-powered xy plotter that mimicked a human hand keying in an Instagram post on an actual iPhone. The minus: the “Rube Goldberg for the passive aggressive” allowed users to diss each other’s posts without having the ‘nads to do it to people’s faces’. 
“Kind of creepy” personality test crunches your Facebook verbiage
The tool analyses language for signs of extroversion (“party!!”) introversion (“computer”) and more. This could be a dream come true for targeted marketing and a hell on earth for privacy. 