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Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-Privacy

Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-PrivacyUntil???"until and unless a mobile phone service provider ... starts collecting data from its GPS-enabled phones and fails to tell its customers that it is collecting information on their whereabouts without their knowledge"Law enforcement is already getting this data for many people just...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Geo-Privacy, phone, Tempest, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

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Firefox team stops collecting data to ensure user privacy

The Firefox team decided this week to stop collecting unique identifiers that link crash reports from the same user. During the somewhat heated debate during an extended session of its weekly meeting, opponents said the practice violates user privacy, while proponents say having the data visible could help them fix bugs and solve...

Tags: Team, Mozilla Firefox, Privacy, User Privacy, Team Management, Web Browsers, Databases, Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Bogus LinkedIn profiles serving malware

Bogus LinkedIn profiles serving malwareI forgot about that guy...Yes, pay a monthly fee to a guy for something that if people used common sense would most likely not happen to begin with.Most of the cases of this are from people spewing out their private data to the public arena. However,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Social Security, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Operational accounting, life history, WOT, LinkedIn, malware

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

How to be less stupid in 2009

How to be less stupid in 2009The ribbon, a "debacle?""As has been shown in the ‘ribbon’ menu debacle of Office 2007, no-one will likely want it."There have been some dissenters, but from what I've read so far, the biggest complaints have been simply that it's so different and the lack...

Tags: Strategy, ribbon, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Must Daschle choose between Ludd or Astroturf

Must Daschle choose between Ludd or AstroturfPrivacy or FailureDr. Peel is right. Besides, if patients and doctors don’t trust eHRs, the data will be crap anyway, and the enriched healthcare IT industry leaders like Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman will blame the doctors for the failure. Why would I...

Tags: Ludd, Glen Tullman, Daschle, Astroturf

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Must Daschle choose between Ludd or Astroturf

The political argument over patient privacy and healthcare IT systems does not ask the right question, which should be how to make things so no one cares what's in your file. Reduce the incentive and police can deal with the rest. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Incentive, Patient, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Spotless TE 1.2.6 (Mac)

Spotless is a simple utility designed to enable and disable Spotlight content indexing of volumes with the click of a button.Spotlight content indexing can cause major slow-downs on volumes that are used for backup purposes, video rendering, Photoshop scratch disks, and a wide variety of tasks that involve the transfer...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Volume, Spotlight, Backups, Security

Software downloads 2009-01-06

Gbridge 1.0.0.1183 (Windows)

Securely do VNC, share files, sync folder and remote backup via Google based VPN, even behind NAT. Gbridge helps you to manage your multiple PCs, and collaborate works with close friends. You can also use it to privately exchange huge media files with your family. Gbridge has many unique features....

Tags: Folder, PC, Microsoft Windows, Friend, Gbridge, Desktops, VPNs, Networking, Telecommunications, Security, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-06

Registry Clean Expert 4.64 (Windows)

Registry Clean Expert scans the Windows Registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information. After fixing the invalid entries, your system will run faster and without errors. The backup/restore function lets you back up your whole Windows Registry, so you can restore it to the current status if you encounter a...

Tags: Registry, Windows Registry, Microsoft Windows, Computer, iExpert Software, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-01-06

The future of Blu-Ray? Watch porn

On the heels of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, the New York Times had a good read this morning about the fuzzy future of Blu-Ray. It kind of made me chuckle because The Times, much like most mainstream news outlets, didn't touch the one element of this story that really...

Tags: Video, Blu-ray, Adult Industry, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Linux pioneer moves from Red Hat to Intel

According to most accounts, Cox was second only to Linus Torvalds in the early Linux days, working on the kernel from version 0.11, and sorting out the networking. Just as we were all closing down before Christmas, Linux kernel developer Alan Cox announced he is moving from Red Hat...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Intel Corp., Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Red Hat, Intel, Alan Cox, Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk

News items 2009-01-05

News to know: Windows 7; Twitter phishing; Apple; Floppies

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: The bell tolls for your magnetic media Robin Harris: Long-term personal data storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First reactions to Windows 7 ...

Tags: Floppy Disk, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Inc., Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Phishing, Operating Systems, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Software, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-05

1st Security Administrator-Pro 12.0 (Windows)

Restrict access to Windows applications, protect PC, and password-protect boot with 1st Security Administrator. This is the best professional password-protected security utility to apply access restrictions to PC, and to protect your privacy stopping others from tampering with your desktop. Deny access to Control Panel and its applets, disable interruption...

Tags: Security Administrator, PC, Microsoft Windows, F Key Solutions, Desktops, Internet, Security, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-05

Hidden Desktop 1.25 (Windows)

With Hidden Desktop, everything you do on your PC is completely and securely hidden with no visible traces. Perfect for PCs that are shared with others, Laptops that have sensitive information which may be stolen, and for those who require extreme privacy from hackers, or intruders of any kind. Hidden...

Tags: Ease Of Use, PC, Microsoft Windows, Salience, Hidden Desktop, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-05

Long-term personal data storage

You can stick a newspaper clipping in a folder and read it in 50 years. Not so with digital content: both the media AND the format can become unreadable. With so much of the world's data - and yours - in digital form, more people wonder: how do I keep...

Tags: Data Storage, Disk, Format, Tape, Media, Storage, Data, Video, MP3, File Format, RTF, Video Video, USCSF, MJPEG2000, Taiyo Yuden, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-01-04

British police can now hack citizens' PCs

Seems like Britain's Home Office is channeling Dick Cheney. Last week I wrote that the U.K. is going forward with a plan to build a massive database of every phone call, email and chat conversation in the country. Supposedly they're going to datamine this stuff to find terrorists. ...

Tags: PC, Britain, Biometric Identification, Computer, E-mail, Productivity, Biometrics, Online Communications, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-01-04

Adobe Flash, Apple Safari fail privacy test

Adobe Flash, Apple Safari fail privacy testColour me surprised that Apple once again fares poorlyConsidering Apple's history, this information comes as no surprise.Dump Flash - It is a big HeadachePractically every week there is some article about how crappy Flash is. Either it is buggy, insecure or now, does...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Apple Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Safari

Discussion threads 2009-01-02

Adobe Flash, Apple Safari fail privacy test

Third party plug-ins like Adobe Flash do a poor job of cleaning traces of your browser sessions, rendering private-browsing features somewhat useless, according to a new study by researcher Katherine McKinley. McKinley, a researcher at iSec Partners, created a tool for testing the functionality of clearing private...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Safari, Privacy, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Plug-in, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Zune problems? All should be fine by Midnight

Zune problems? All should be fine by MidnightSo, by letting your kids and yourself... have an ear-splitting volume of music free day (and hopefully prolonging your hearing, which does NOT recover), Microsoft should be sued?Better I think to thank them for their ineptitude which lead, hopefully, to a day of...

Tags: Y2K, Microsoft Zune, Zune problem, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-12-31

No bailout for you? Online finance tools help you ride the economic storm

No bailout for you? Online finance tools help you ride the economic stormThanks, but no thanks!Why should I go online and risk the privacy of my financial data? All anyone needs is an OFFline spreadsheet.RE: No bailout for you? Online finance tools help you ride the economic stormCan an...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Financial accounting, Financial services, finance tool, economic storm, bailout, spreadsheet, finance

Discussion threads 2008-12-31