At least it seems to have survived thanks to a new buyer. Details are non-existent right now, as with the Bloglines news, but it will be interesting to see what the new owners have in store for Xmarks users.
Personally, I’ve rather been enjoying Firefox Sync, so I’m going to hold off on switching back to Xmarks until I see more details, but I will be keeping an eye out for any announcements.
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This is something to think about as we approach the day the GDPR goes in to effect in the EU: “One of the requirements of GDPR is that, even if a company obtains customer consent to use their personal data, that data cannot be processed or used for any other purpose other than that for…
A post over on Seth Godin’s Blog that I ran across today has left me thinking. In it, Seth talks about how technology now allows us to help our readers: Just recently (a decade or so) we opened two doors that change the way we communicate: we can link now, which means that any time…
Yes, you can force a password change on a Blackberry wireless device from the server even when the device’s wireless is turned off. You have to connect it to your desktop for it to get the updated password though. That’s how I was able to get into my device again and use it to get…
This. Just this. There are no “safe” backdoors. “Once again, this reinforces why we should not allow backdoors to encryption or any other such vulnerability. Over and over again, the proponents of backdooring encryption have insisted that it can be built in a “safe” way, where only government will get the backdoor access to encryption….
As I’ve said before, a ban will keep people from using cell phones while driving, it will not make driving safer. Eliminating a symptom of bad driving will not make good drivers. But, I’m pretty sure it will happen, because it allows politicians to say they have “done something”. Follow these topics: Tech
This article caught my interest: Just in the course of a few hours, over 162,000 different and legitimate WordPress sites tried to attack his site. We would likely have detected a lot more sites, but we decided we had seen enough and blocked the requests at the edge firewall, mostly to avoid filling the logs…