Tech Support Scams Continue to Evolve One day last week, I was looking at freeware picks, and site picks, and evaluating them for possible inclusion in our newsletters. I had 12-15 tabs open at the time, when suddenly, what to my bloodshot eyes should appear? This: And accompanying these ominous warnings including “There is a great threat of… Read More »
Use Scr.im to Trim Spam Any time you put your email address in plain text on Facebook, Twitter, forums, auction sites, etc. your email address will be harvested by spam bots that constantly patrol the web. If your email address is whosafraidofspam@not2savvy.org and you post that on the web, anywhere, on any page, your email address will end… Read More »
Have You Been Thinking About a VPN Service? Don’t forget! Please take our VPN Poll after you read this article. The poll is at the bottom of this page. It’s not a secret that the government is letting ISPs and big telecom wrest control of the Internet from government agencies and take control of it themselves. There are… Read More »
More About VPN Services VPN (Virtual Private Network) services are being hailed by many as a way to prevent your ISP from collecting and selling your Internet data. Some experts suggest that the data being collected and sold by ISPs contains the most personal and sensitive user data, such as Social Security numbers, medical records, information about users’ families… Read More »
Some Things Private Browsing is Good For – Hint: Privacy is not one of them While private browsing is anything but private, there are some good reasons to use it, but none them are related to hiding your activities, as you aren’t going to hide anything by using private browsing. Every site you visit is logged by your… Read More »
Be Careful With VPNs We’ve been getting dozens of emails in light of the U.S. government’s recent decision to allow ISPs to sell users’ browsing data without getting users’ permission first. Well, apparently some tech newsletters are advising readers to use a VPN service – to “protect their privacy”. We’ve done some research into VPN services and we… Read More »