If you’re concerned about how much tracking is being done as you click around on the internet, and you probably should be, one easy thing you can do is grab Privacy Badger from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Install it in your browser to enable it to do some automatic detecting and blocking of tracking cookies.
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So I installed SP1 for Internet Explorer 6 yesterday and immediately had some problems with it. I don’t know how, or why, but immediately after restarting I opened up IE and what sounded like a mangled .wav file played for about 30 seconds, then stopped. But no other sounds will play because the sound device…
SafeWeb users are vulnerable. Oh the irony. Should we start calling them (not so)SafeWeb? *L* The Register is baffled by ICQ “hack”. Was it hacked or wasn’t it? You be the judge… Trillian version .725 is out, the latest in the AIM connection wars. Why aren’t the Olympics over yet? Haven’t we had enough drama,…
Yet another reason you should not, repeat NOT, just plug in a USB drive that you find laying around! Only use ones that you, or someone you trust, has used to store data. Also, ones that your instructor gives you at training classes I teach should be safe too. I plug those into my laptop…
Bryan, over at BlendMart had this to say in response to one of our discussions about patching and firewalls and what not: “On a side note… to the folks commenting at Life of a one-man IT department, just because all your ports are closed and you don’t have Internet facing servers on your network is…
Interestingly, Intuit is now saying maybe they were wrong with the anti-piracy stuff they built into TurboTax. It’s interesting though that they claim to want to be very open about the fact that they weren’t installing spyware, but they chose a product that wrote to part of the HD you can’t see. Not the best…
Automated Documents Barron Henley and Allan MacKenzie Barron: Quit using copy/paste and search replace to create documents! You copy over errors into all your documents. Most of the people, who consider themselves power users, don’t use word processing software effectively at all. Movement away from per hour billing to flat fee means you need to…
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