Privacy Concerns and Google? You Don’t Say! Here is a link to an interesting post from Preston Gralla over at ComputerWorld regarding privacy concerns he sees with the new Google Voice service and I wholeheartedly agree. The service allows you to have one Google supplied phone number that can be linked to all of your existing phone numbers and gives you voice mail and those voice mails are transcribed to text and forwarded to your email to read. Very Cool! You just give out your Google ... Read Full Story
I would consider this a must read by anyone concerned with their information privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created a site specifically targeting information privacy for ordinary citizens. It gives an excellent overview of privacy and security of online information and promises to be an ongoing effort. This is only a beta version and the EFF is looking to release the final version later this year. Read Full Story
The guys over at the Boy Genius Report have a great article on the shortcomings of the iPhone. They pretty much nailed it. Everything that they describe is available in Windows Mobile and most of the features were available in the early releases almost 10 years ago!
It is unbelievable that to this day, there is no cut and paste on the iPhone and there is no user accessible central document store to store, um documents. Oh but they have Apps! I am waiting for the day when HTC or some other ma... Read Full Story
The Pittsburgh Steelers win the AFC Championship game with a 23-14 win over the Baltimore Ravens to advance to Super Bowl XLIII against the Arizona Cardinals. Read Full Story
Took some time but I was finally able to get my iPhone to work with my blog for mobile posting. It’s nice to be able to post from anywhere now! Read Full Story
Spam Drops After Internet Providers Disconnect a California Hosting Firm
By Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 12, 2008; 7:16 PM
The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide dropped drastically today after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations allegedy engaged in spam activity was taken offline, according to security firms that monitor spam distribution online.
While its gleaming, state-of-the-art, 30-sto... Read Full Story
Growing financial pressures, unforeseen threats, and a volatile and rapidly changing business landscape — apt descriptions for both the world economy and this years Worldwide Infrastructure Security Survey.
Arbor Networks once again has completed a survey of the largest ISPs and content providers around the world. Some 70 lead security engineers responded to 90 questions covering a spectrum of Internet backbone security threats and engineering challenges. This fourth annual survey covered th... Read Full Story
PLEASE VOTE. AMERICA WILL THANK YOU.
BARACK OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT.
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