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Category Archives: privacy
Excellent article on copyright and patent law
I came across this article in The New York Times Freakonomics blog. The article starts off by explaining the difference between a geek and a tweaker a la invention vs. innovation. Both of these personalities are necessary and actually thrive … Continue reading
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GoogleSharing: a firefox addon
While reading the latest issue of Information Security Magazine I came across an article of a tool Moxie Marlinspike released at Blackhat this past summer, Googlesharing. Marlinspike has introduced several tools that help people concerned about privacy avoid giving up … Continue reading
Beware of the evercookie!
Evercookie is a small bit of evil/genius JavaScript code that allows a website to create ultra-persistent cookies on its users’ computers. Currently, it uses eight different methods of cookie storage, with plans to develop at least four more. Not only … Continue reading
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The Power of GPU’s
There’s been a lot of talk recently about using graphics processing units (GPU) to crack passwords. This was due to a recent paper published by a researchers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Long story short: Make sure your passwords are … Continue reading
LastPass: My new favorite password manager
LastPass is a cloud based password manager. There’s no worries as your master password is used to symmetrically encrypt your information before it it sent to LastPass. You don’t have to worry about passwords lying around unencrypted on your disk. … Continue reading
(tool) HTTPS Everywhere
There’s a new Firefox add-on, HTTPS Everywhere, jointly developed by Tor and the EFF. If a website has an SSL certificate, the add-on will automatically redirect the user to the page’s https address. The add-on comes loaded with a default … Continue reading
Ubuntu can bypass iPhone pin to read data?
According to this zdnet article, when plugging your iPod into an Ubuntu machine the device is mounted without ever being prompted for a PIN code. This is working on non jail broken iPhones. I’m surprised the article only names Ubuntu … Continue reading
How to detect an ATM skimmer
I subscribe to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse newsletter. If you’ve not been to this site before and you’re interested in privacy it’s a worth while bookmark. They recently published their ‘Summer Vacation – Privacy Primer‘ which has an interesting article … Continue reading
Google beta’s SSL for web searches
According to this H article, Google is beginning to beta a new feature of providing SSL for their standard web search service. As one commenter noted, Google is still collecting the same information from your searches but this will limit … Continue reading
Google & Privacy
Bruce Schneier recently posted an article about the erosion of privacy. Specifically how the social networking sites are accelerating this “privacy decay.” Along with attacked social networking sites he through in Google. I just came across an interesting Forbes article … Continue reading
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