Category: Web Privacy

The Safest Password On The Net

The Safest Password On The Net

Why the best password to secure your data is “password”

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Dec 17, 2010 | 3 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Disasters • HowTo • Web Privacy
Gawker Compromise Sparks Action- Protect Your Passwords and Protect Your Privacy

Gawker Compromise Sparks Action- Protect Your Passwords and Protect Your Privacy

…. is a very good reason to create a “garbage” email account and only use it with your non-monetary transaction sites. For monetary transaction sites it’s up to you if you want connect them with a main real email account. BUT do NOT use the same password no matter what. So…when Gawker said that they had been hacked I just ….

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Dec 14, 2010 | 3 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Blogs • Disasters • facebook • Gadgets • Hackers • Intellectual Property • Internet • Lifestyle • Social Media • Twitter • Web Privacy
Identity Theft and Password Security Infographic

Identity Theft and Password Security Infographic

Via: Online MBA

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Jun 04, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Internet • Social Media • Technology • Web Privacy
Dr. Facebook Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Give Up On Facebook

Dr. Facebook Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Give Up On Facebook

Back in the day, AOL was notorious for being anti-user and making escape from their walled garden near impossible. Now, there is a new horrible walled garden. And escape is not much easier.

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May 04, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Filed Under: facebook • HowTo • Web Privacy
Here's Lookin @ You Kid

I’m Actually Quite Flattered the Library of Congress is Collecting My Tweets

Well, I’m rather important aren’t I? Me and my musings of men as pistachios, Lindsay Lohan and her feud with (insert appropriate punch line here), the guy who tweets for @jesus, we’re all gonna be stored in some server alongside the Federalist Papers, and it’s gonna mean something.

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Apr 17, 2010 | 1 comment | View Post
Filed Under: Social Media • Twitter • Web Privacy
Judge Sues For Alleged Privacy Violations After Commenting On Blogs

Judge Sues For Alleged Privacy Violations After Commenting On Blogs

Cayohoga County Judge Shirley Strickland-Saffold has sued the Cleveland Plain Dealer for alleged privacy violations after they revealed comments on articles about a high-profile murder case originated from her e-mail address.

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Apr 12, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Blogs • Law • Web Privacy
Laptops in School Raise Test Scores Dramatically, Privacy Non-Existent – Frontline

Laptops in School Raise Test Scores Dramatically, Privacy Non-Existent – Frontline

This short Frontline documentary shows students giving up their privacy while using school laptops when on school property, and unlike the total invasion of privacy story that broke around mid February, this Bronx school seems to have gotten it right. The grade improvements speak for themselves. But at what cost?
(Video after the break)

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Feb 26, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Innovation • Technology • Web Privacy
Now We Need to be Afraid to Use Geolocation Services????

Now We Need to be Afraid to Use Geolocation Services????

I went out on Saturday night, seriously…way out, in fact I’m still feeling it today. If you follow me on Twitter you might know this because I checked in on Foursquare repeatedly and sent the notification to Twitter. I do this for two reasons; one, to support local business by letting others know where I [...]

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Feb 22, 2010 | 2 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Social Media • Technology • Texting • Twitter • Web Privacy
NY Times Reports Google Traced Hacking Back to Two Chinese Univeristies

NY Times Reports Google Traced Hacking Back to Two Chinese Univeristies

The NY Times is reporting that: “A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation. Tracing the attacks further back, to an elite Chinese university [...]

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Feb 19, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Google • Hackers • Internet • Web Privacy
I Will Not Expose The School To Civil Liability

School District Sued For Allegedly Spying On Students At Home

It’s all fun and games until someone starts a class-action lawsuit. And this one is a doozy, complete with Fourth Amendment violations and numerous wiretap violations.

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Feb 18, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Law • Web Privacy
Buzz Exploit Addressed by Google…Kinda

Buzz Exploit Addressed by Google…Kinda

Google is scrambling to repair the security exploit (see lack of follower message view control) they overlooked by stating that the option to block public views of contacts was always there.  LifeHacker has a decent walk-through and Google has now posted a “we listened to your feedback” post on the official Google blog  page.  This fix is not a [...]

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Feb 15, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Buzz • Google • Trends • Web Privacy
Anonymous Hackers Have Declared Cyberwar on Australia Dubbed ‘Operation Titstorm’

Anonymous Hackers Have Declared Cyberwar on Australia Dubbed ‘Operation Titstorm’

Hacker Group, Anonymous, opposes the oppression of small breasted women, which excludes them from acting in porn in Australia.

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Feb 15, 2010 | 1 comment | View Post
Filed Under: Hackers • Media • Technology • Web Privacy
8 Things Stalkers, Burglars and Psycho Ex’s Love about Social Media

8 Things Stalkers, Burglars and Psycho Ex’s Love about Social Media

Back in the old days of stalking and burglary, criminals had to stake out people and locations to find out optimal times to be criminalish. Social Media has made it easy.

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Feb 10, 2010 | 9 comments | View Post
Filed Under: Humor • Social Media • Twitter • Web Privacy