#security

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http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/...

And of course, as this makes clear, Lieberman and Amazon are very much missing the point. This is n...

alasdairw Dec 02, 2010

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40291856/ns/travel-new...

I have elderly family who have to wear bags exactly like this. The thought that anyone could consid...

alasdairw Nov 22, 2010

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

Here's a plugin you can install and use that will protect you from Firesheep on a lot of sites that...

alasdairw Oct 28, 2010

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/26/how-to-guard-yourse...

This has become a reasonably hot issue in the last week or so, thanks to Firesheep, and I should wri...

alasdairw Oct 27, 2010

http://code.technically.us/post/1109586140/exchang...

Do you use your personal smartphone to get work email on, via Exchange? Here's an article that expla...

alasdairw Sep 19, 2010

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/likejacking_t...

Oh look. Facebook "likeing" has security vulnerabilities. At the moment, what's out there appears...

alasdairw Jun 02, 2010

http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/

If you're staying on facebook, I thoroughly recommend that you use this, to be absolutely sure of wh...

alasdairw May 19, 2010

http://lifehacker.com/5505400/how-id-hack-your-wea...

For real and serious: if you have any passwords that are not at least 8 characters long with one non...

alasdairw Apr 01, 2010

http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/02/11/chip...

The tech details will be lost on most of you, but in brief: if an attacker can get your card cloned,...

alasdairw Feb 12, 2010

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/help-eff-rese...

Well worth a look. I'm a little disturbed to discover that in over 100,000 people, my browser is un...

alasdairw Jan 28, 2010

https://www.ipredator.se/

This is very tempting. Certainly, if the DEB bill passes in it's present form, I'll be switching to...

alasdairw Jan 21, 2010

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approac...

You're bound to see/have seen this one all over the place today. Still worth logging, and very, ver...

alasdairw Jan 13, 2010

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/security/permanent...

Tomorrow, I delete my facebook account. Their privacy settings are too fucking awful for me - I sip...

alasdairw Dec 30, 2009