A couple of months ago, Kashmir Hill over at Forbes published an editorial on 10 simple things you should do to protect your privacy. I thought I would repost them here. I’m not going to go into detail about the specifics because they are available at the article (and I am too lazy to retype them). Password...

In case you didn’t notice, this past week Facebook changed your default email address.  I wrote about this a couple of years ago in that Facebook was rolling out @facebook.com email addresses which let users communicate within its own messaging service to people outside of Facebook.  However...

A couple of days ago, I posted a link to a video by Microsoft parodying Gmail – the Gmail man.  In it, the video pokes fun at Google’s habit of making advertisements more relevant to its user base by extracting keywords from emails and using them to serve ads that match those keywords. I decided...

I have to admit that this advertisement by Microsoft, poking fun at Google and Gmail – with an advert for its Office 365 service – is pretty funny. In it, they take shots at Google’s habit of scanning your email messages and extracting keywords and tokens in order to better target advertisements that...

Okay, this is my final post on the Stratfor/Anonymous hack.  Probably. I’m a subscriber, and yesterday we all got a note from Stratfor founder George Friedman about the hack.  You can read it here if you so desire.  In it, he describes the motives for the attack: The attackers thought...

Last year, in response to the rising costs of owning property, I joined the board of my homeowner’s association where I live.  Now instead of being randomly hit with increases in my fees, I get a little bit of notice before everyone else is also hit with the same fees.  At least I know where...

In case you missed it a few days, a story broke that said that Facebook was caught hiring a PR firm to spread stories about Google about how they invade people’s privacy.  From The Daily Beast : For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson...

2011 is turning into the year of the security breach. We can’t go two weeks without an organization revealing that hackers broke in and stole data.  As if things couldn’t get any worse for Sony, breach twice in a span of less than two weeks, users whose data they were supposed to protect are adding...

Investor’s Business Daily had a Friday story about how China renewed the Internet search king Google’s license to operate in China for another year: China and Google reached an uneasy truce Friday as the country with the most Web users renewed the Internet giant's operating license. But the censorship...

Continuing on from my theme of Futurama-related posts, most people who watch the show will no doubt know that the show is very clever for the amount of humorous inside jokes referring to science and mathematics.  For example, one time Bender has a nightmare and sees ones and zeroes, ones and zeroes...

When I heard that Futurama was being brought back on the air for new episodes, it was a very happy day for me.  Futurama is one of cartoons I have watched that is actually still funny (Simpsons?  Nope.  South Park?  It was for a long time but recently has been very hit and miss, much...

The title of this post is tongue-in-cheek, exaggerated and meant to evoke a reaction from the reader.  But it’s not all that far off from reality. TechFlash has an article up this past week that highlights a blog post by Kim Cameron.  Cameron is Microsoft’s Chief Security Architect and one...