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 »
How many of you have seen this commercial? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmx4twCK3_I There is so much misinformation on the Internet and so much good information on the Internet too. Unlike a good library where you can do research and pretty much trust the sources, the Internet is replete with uninformed sources, rumors, lies, intentionally misleading sites, opinions, and millions of people… Read More »
Let’s face it – being on the Web, in any way, is getting less and less private. Between governments spying on its citizens, to citizens willingly spying on themselves and each other (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), our once private lives are getting less and less private. And sometimes we join sites and services on a whim and give up… Read More »