Har du betalat din internetavgift än?

Note, by “leaving” facebook, I don’t mean the standard “deactivation” that only locks your account until you log back in again. That still keeps all your data, personal info, posts, photos online for everybody to see. Yes, it is possible to delete you account, but that must be requested via e-mail, and only after you delete everything connected to your user. That means all applications, every single post you made on people’s user pages, basically a LOT of data that needs to be deleted…one…by…one. Barely impossible.

But there is a trick! Facebook stores your e-mail address as an unique identifier for your account. This is where we start.

Quick and simple guide for permanently deleting your Facebook account

UPDATE: September 2009: Many readers have reported that this hack doesn’t work anymore. I cannot verify if this works or not (for obvious reasons ), read the comments below for more information.

As found at Wikihow

Make sure that you know what you are doing. I take no responsibility of these actions. This is permanent!

1. If you are the only admin of any group, hand it over to someone you trust or the group will be gone as well (which will make any group members confused)
2. Say a last goodbye.
3. Remove all your e-mail addresses except the one you use as your contact e-mail.
4. Disable your account. This can be found where you edit your profile. If you feel like it, check “Other” as the reason to why you leave, and type in a crafty note to the Facebook owners. Something like “I leave you for ever. You lose!” or any message of your liking
5. Sign up a new account. Use a DIFFERENT e-mail than the one on your old accont. I recommend SlopsBox, a free one-time mail service for these kinds of registrations. SlopsBox will make sure this account won’t be traced back to you.
6. When you sign up, you can provide any information you want as long as you use your SlopsBox e-mail account. Fake your name and info, or people will think this account is you.
7. When you have signed up, edit your profile.
8. Take a last deep breath. It happens now. Add the e-mail address of your original account to be your contact info.
9. When this has been verified, your old account is overwritten by your new one. Like magic.
10. Deactivate this new account and select “Opt-out”
11. Done!

Now you are free to do whatever you want. Take a picture. Feel the bubbling sensation of you actually owning the photo yourself. Nobody else!
Take a walk. Try to remember the last time you were walking and not feeling watched. This is your new life without Facebook.

So to all of you who had me on his/her contact list and wonder where I have gone: I am no longer on Facebook. You will no longer find me in your contact list. You will not find me in your fancy group you created. You will not find my cute messages that I wrote on your wall.
You will find me somewhere else, in a better place. Perhaps you should join me? It is actually simple and painless.

Questions? Comments? Outrageous anger? Write below!

In Sweden these days you get your application results for all higher education over the internet, from the page http://www.studera.nu. You log in with your social security number and a password. Yesterday, the servers sent out an automated e-mail message telling that the applications have been processed and that I could now log in to see the results.

Lie.

Not until 10:00 today the results were finished and the gates opened for me to log in. Gates, by the way. I should have called them dam gates, because the flood that followed was immense. All existing students have to re-apply for the next year as well as the new students, so there are about 300 000 people that expect results. Everybody gets their results via snail mail as well, but there is a significant portion that, like me, want to get the results as quickly as possible.

So the dam gates opened and around 100 000 people waited to see their results. Result? Massive DDoS. The funny thing is that it happens every year and that the web page is not really meant for massive storms of visitors.

Enough talking. You want to know the results of my application? I successfully logged in after manually entering the address of the auth server, and from a low-level HTML dump that I extracted I got what can be summarized in the following:

“Antagen”

Before you English-speakers go out to find this in a dictionary (which happily will tell you that it literally means “assumed”) I can give you the service of telling that it means that I got in to my #1 education, “Civilingenjör i teknisk fysik och elektroteknik – internationell, inr tyska”, roughly “Master of Science in technical physics and electrotechnology, German direction”. Together with me there are three people of the four appliciants that got accepted to the education. 100% guys.

I am moving to Linköping in a few weeks and will spend the majority of the five upcoming years in that city. You are all invited to my graduation party in June…2012!

Prosecutor Håkan Roswell, is skeptical and says that it might be a “propaganda action” from the filesharers, writes Svenska Dagbladet
A leading newspaper covering technology in Sweden, Ny Teknik, interviewed many leading IT persons in Sweden, and 4 of 10 said that they supported filesharing.

Indeed, this increased the heat of the filesharing debate in Sweden, and the battle is long not won by any side.

It is a funny situation, since linking to illegal material (as a bittorrent tracker does) is NOT illegal in Sweden. I hope justice will find its way out on the right side, and that some sensible person changes the filesharing laws in this country to be a lot more liberal.