Posts Tagged privacy
Facebook: road to jail, free email, and protected by Feds
A dude in New Zealand used his ex-girlfriends Facebook credentials and changed her wall photo to a nude one and changed her privacy settings to public. Tsk, Tsk Tsk, are you 5 years old? He now will have to sit in jail for 4 months.
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Facebook will offer free email accounts now. With 500 million users they stand poised to overtake the leaders in email: Gmail, Y! mail and Hotmail. The question is if people want that kind of integration with their very personal email lives. Imagine being able to search an email address with results being everyone you know on Facebook. How many times have some idiots posted politically incorrect photos and tagged you in the background? Now imagine those results coming up in a search on your email address.
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A hospital employee posted critical comments of her superiors on her Facebook wall to other fellow employees and got sacked. Now the government is saying she was wrongfully fired and is bringing her employers to court. Their line is her personal Facebook account is protected speech and should be treated the same as “water cooler” chit chat. Now imagine what kind of damage employees could do with well crafted “private” campaigns protected federally on lets say something like position votes, budget decisions, personnel shuffles, or even executive reviews. Where does the privacy end and the gossip begin?
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Reviewing this Week’s Hard Truth about Money and Personal Finance Wall Street Pushes Hurricane Ike to the Second Page This week has no doubt been a record-beater in the volume of money and finance news that has pushed its way to the front pages of print and electronic news publications. The people still struggling with Hurricane Ike have been pushed...... -
Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging I am amazed at the blog-reluctance of many small businesses. I hear things like “I don’t have time to blog”, “blogging doesn’t make sense in my industry”, and sometimes even the dreaded “what the heck is a blog?” The reality is if your company provides unique products or services,......
There goes the secret ‘public’ meeting
There goes our privacy. Using 325 independent mics this new system purports to be able to record any noise in its range regardless of ambient sounds by working out how far that noise is from each of the mics, correct for delays and then synchronizes the audio from all 325 of them into one stream.
Big brother is here!
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Reasons to Delay Taking Social Security until Age 70 As baby boomers approaching retirement in some form, we as a group of mostly still working adults are thinking more and more about Social Security retirement benefits and when we should claim them. I find myself studying and contemplating this issue more now than ever because of the hit Mrs. GoTo and...... -
Test Your Basic Social Security Knowledge Baby boomers are anxious and confused about how Social Security will best fit into their retirement income plans. Millions of words about Social Security have been published online and in print in recent years, all intended to educate us. Yet a knowledge gap remains. A recent academic study demonstrated that...... -
How to Create Alternative Income If you're currently living paycheck to paycheck, or you would just like to have a little more financial security, the key is creating alternative forms of income. While to many people this means getting a second job, there are actually easier ways that you can start bringing in more money......
TrueCrypt – Free full disk encryption
So far only supporting most of the Microsoft Windows flavors, with TrueCrypts Operating system encryption you may encrypt your entire harddisk (boot, system files, the whole caboodle) similar to what PGP whole disk encryption does but for FREE. This has been available for a while now but I only stumbled across it looking for a more cost effective solution for Mac (PGP costs $143).
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Security and encryption for Gmail via Firefox extension
So you’ve got your mail client all setup using some kind of key based encryption, and all is dandy until you are out and must access some email with nothing but a browser. Everything turns up as gibberish.
Along comes Sean Leonard of SeanTek® and Richard Jones with a neat firefox extension called Gmail S/MIME. Install this addon (the Fox must restart) and then open those gibberish emails. If your keys are installed in Firefox’ key manager then woalla, with a bit of magic the emails will decrypt right in the browser.
According to the site, key validation is coming soon, so you can see if the key really comes from a reputable source.
I am still waiting for a mobile solution for iPhone.
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Do You Fancy Finding One Of These In Your Aquarium? I know I certainly wouldn't - If I saw this I would run a mile. Aquarium staff from Cornwall, UK's Blue Reef Aquarium have located a huge 4 foot worm in one of their display aquarium which was attacking corals and fish within the aquarium. For many months the......
Iron – A faster, more private Chrome
Built on the highly secure Chrome browser from Google, SRWare stripped out some of the Google “call home” (in some cases “send home”) features and released a more private version named Iron. Some settings not available on Chrome have been enabled in Iron (deep cleaning of files, ask on cookie placement).
Available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
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Google Chrome Socks Proxy Workaround If you would like to use Google Chrome at work, but are unable because you have a SOCKS proxy, you're not alone. It is a known issue that Chrome does not work with socks. Initially I couldn't even install Chrome because of my firewall at work. I did install......
SmallImage: Shield your camera information
In today’s era of dwindling privacy, even marketeers are able to peer into your images and use the metadata to determine your camera purchasing trends and ‘profile’ your spending power.
SmallImage by Fabien Conus is a lightweight and snow-proof utility to strip all metadata away before you post or send any images. The less information unknown parties know about you the better you are off.
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Facebook users can spy on their friends
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