These days, there is absolutely no guarantee that what you do online is private. While there are many ways to hide your surfing habits from your family, cloaking yourself from unwanted and unnecessary snooping by local, state or federal authorities is much more difficult. As conservative politicians push for more restrictions of personal freedom, it … Continue reading Hide Yourself Online
With the death of the MagaUpload site, the keyword these days seems to be backup… your own data. I’ve written three posts about how to do that, the first one is HERE, but the point of this post is about security in the cloud, not losing your data. There is ample information online to prevent … Continue reading Do you trust ‘The Cloud’?
Yesterday I downloaded all of my data from Facebook. It’s a relatively new feature and it’s very easy to do. Head over to General Account Settings, then click on ‘Download a copy of your Facebook data’. You will have to re-enter your password at that point, just in case you’re not the owner of the … Continue reading Facebook Data Download
Hotmail has been around since 1997, at least in its present form with Microsoft. Somehow, it doesn’t have the same cachet as Gmail, even though it’s been around for a lot longer, 2004 compared to 1997. Many of my contacts use Gmail for business, pretty much shunning Hotmail for reasons that I don’t quite understand…other … Continue reading Hotmail or Gmail?
There is a WordPress advertising scam going around now. Here are the details of it. If you own a WordPress site, this is important reading. Please try to follow the whole post to the end. 1. The first contact is through a comment on your site. This is the comment, details may change somewhat: “Hi, … Continue reading WordPress Scam