Just a few minutes ago, I received one of those scam emails designed to pluck at my heart strings and make me all warm and fuzzy — and abandon my common sense enough that I’d actually give my bank account details to someone I don’t know. Most of the time, I just delete it, but sometimes I can’t… Read More »
Google’s Gmail is already using https:// (secure web page technology) and has been working on encrypting all data it moves between data centers since last summer. Now, with the revelation of NSA’s spying on U.S. and citizens of other countries, both Google and Yahoo are stepping up their efforts to make sure all data in transit is secure… Read More »
It’s not a newsflash: A lot of people love Facebook, and I wanted to make sure that if you’re one of them, you take care of your privacy when you’re using Facebook. There are a lot of things going on that you’re probably not aware of, for instance over 600,000 Facebook logins (passwords and user names) are stolen… Read More »
How to get Malware – quickly and easily I was browsing a computer tech news site when, out of nowhere, without clicking anything, a page opened displaying the above notification. It looks a lot like Adobe Flash Player installer. Of course, I was not on a page requiring any media player (and even if I was I would… Read More »
The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA’s all-seeing machine “I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the… Read More »
Are we becoming a police state? With our prisons overflowing and, in many states, police officers shaking down innocent citizens for money (see this article from USA Today) in a process called “churning”, how much further do we have to go before a majority of Americans stand up and say “enough is enough”? The U.S. government claims that… Read More »