Author: Mike McBride

  • News and stuff

    Comcast: Will Stop Tracking Users – Why were you doing it in the first place? Duh! Web Surfers Not Fond of Paying to Send E-Cards – Duh, again! The whole attraction to e-cards was that they were free, of course people are going to stop if they aren’t. Girls know way around Net, parents– read…

  • In firewall news

    According to the last edition of the LangaList, Agnitum has a free firewall out, and a release candidate for the Pro version of Outpost . A quick look at it makes it seem pretty cool, maybe an alternative to Zone Alarm. But it looks like the pay version will be way better than the free…

  • Security is Happiness

    No seriously, I attended an Internet Security Systems demo/seminar this morning and they gave away t-shirts with big smiley faces and “Security is Happiness” printed under them. They’re pretty silly looking, I’ll try and webcam it tonight so you can see what I’m talking about. The seminar was decent, it’s always humorous when you setup…

  • Confusing but good

    I did get to try and install StatCounteX yesterday, and then this morning found the version that adds password protection to the stats, which I was rather disappointed wasn’t there to begin with. Turns out it was a user uploaded version. There wasn’t much in the way of documentation, I guess that’s a hazard of…

  • Whole lotta blogging going on

    Cory points us to a rant about a company called Critical IP, who are apparently calling domain owners, including personal domain owners and trying to sell you business network security. Sheesh, get a clue! Chris creates his Blogger’s Manifesto. I think somebody’s been getting too many flame mails, eh? An InfoWorld article that talks about…