Internet

  • What I’m Reading (weekly)

    25+ apps that the TED staff swears make their everyday lives easier | TED Blog tags: MM iPhone Announcing the 2014 Blawggie Awards – Eleventh Edition tags: LitSupport MM A Simple Breach tags: MM Security Legal departments need to be tech-savvy during litigation tags: MM LitSupport Twelve Really Useful Links You Need to Know to…

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    Is Blogging Dead?

    Well no, it’s not. Despite the ominous sounding headline, blogging is more popular than ever, people just aren’t calling it that any more. Yes, the “blog” that we first talked about at the turn of the century, and in 2001 when I started; a list of entries sorted in reverse chronological order and with full…

  • This Week’s Links (weekly)

    3 Alternatives to the Now-Defunct TrueCrypt for Your Encryption Needs tags: MM Security FitBit Data, Apple watches, what’s next in terms of possible evidence? | Smooth Transitions tags: LitSupport MM Location. Location. Location. tags: LitSupport MM Rule 34: As Basic As You Get tags: LitSupport MM The Internet of Things and E-Discovery tags: LitSupport MM…

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    Another Sign That All Converstions Have Moved To Social Media

    As if we needed another reminder that Facebook, and the like, is where all conversations are happening on the internet, I recently updated the Social plugin from Mailchimp across my blogs and noticed something different. Where there used to be a limit on the number of characters when broadcasting a post to Facebook, suddenly it…

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    The Problem with Total Surveillance

    According to the emails I’ve received just in the past couple of weeks:

    I’m actively seeking employment in Pennsylvania
    I own rental property in Las Vegas
    I have wives and children enrolled in schools in NC, VA and Canada.
    I travel back and forth between San Francisco and New Zealand frequently
    I frequent some “interesting” dating sites, including at least one that caters to cheating spouses. (Great, thanks to whoever used my email address to sign up for that at the same time my wife is across the country, that doesn’t look odd!!!!)
    I am paying for cable internet/TV service for a young lady in Michigan. (Student using their stepfather’s payment info maybe?)
    I shop at some online retailers in England.
    Now, none of that is true