piracy websites and in particular, the protests outside the swedish parliament that followed the pirate bay motion capture, demonstrated by some idiot in a very tight suit. and, of course, there was that new phone from that company, and that was when everything changed. in 2008, the rest of the mobile phone companies tried to play catch—up. touchscreens were everywhere, the mobile web was getting there, but surely the iphone couldn't slay all of the established phone makers? and nokia, which sells more phones in one week than apple does in a year, will have its own touchscreen rival by december. hmm... but as we started to spend more time online, our digitalfootprints were leaving behind significant clues about us. and we decided to show how your personal data could be scraped and used by anyone who knew how to write a facebook app. we wrote an evil application which secretly collected the personal details of you and your friends and sent them to us. fortunately, facebook closed that hole and no—one has ever used our personal data against us since! it's a new decade and 2010 starts with a b