#privacy

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https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/digital-hygiene/

Quite a good set of rules for living a slightly more private and secure digital life on the modern i...

alasdairw Apr 22, 2025

https://daringfireball.net/2020/03/regarding_zoom

I've banged on about not using Zoom to a few people lately. Jon Gruber has a good summary of why I...

alasdairw Mar 31, 2020

https://thetoolsweneed.com/a-few-simple-steps-to-v...

This is a really good guide - there are a few things in here I didn't know about, and will start doi...

alasdairw Apr 02, 2019

https://1.1.1.1/

This is really nice, and from a company with a pretty good track record. I'll be setting it up at h...

alasdairw Apr 04, 2018

http://www.salimvirani.com/facebook/

I've spent time in the last year agonising about whether or not to rejoin Facebook. Then I read thi...

alasdairw Jan 16, 2017

http://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/17/apple-can-c...

Apple can easily comply with the order, without placing (all) their customers at risk, because they...

alasdairw Feb 18, 2016

http://www.macworld.com/article/3034355/ios/why-th...

If you care about electronic security or privacy, this case is one to watch closely, and with a cert...

alasdairw Feb 18, 2016

http://www.marco.org/2015/08/11/ad-blocking-ethics

This is pretty much my position. I don't mind (ell, I do, but I'll live with it) being show a few a...

alasdairw Aug 13, 2015

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/smart-toys-and...

I don't know whether I agree with this or not, but I think it's an interesting piece that provides f...

alasdairw Jul 02, 2015

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/09/16/just-ho...

This is a) proper interesting and b) proper scary. I encourage the reading of it. And then the pur...

alasdairw Sep 18, 2014

http://sexonomics-uk.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/how-to...

Good set of practical tips - useful to people who wish to blog anonymously, but also just to people...

alasdairw May 14, 2012

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Blah blah privacy, blah blah tracking cookies, blah blah, install this so that google stop tracking...

alasdairw May 02, 2012

http://blog.thephoenix.com/blogs/phlog/archive/201...

Not actually posting this as a dig at Facebook, it's just interesting stuff. I'm not personally wil...

alasdairw Apr 10, 2012

http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-hereby-resign

Worth a read, if you're at all concerned about this whole employers-requiring-interview-candidates-t...

alasdairw Apr 03, 2012