In an interesting reverse of the norm, google paid for three full page adverts in the guardian a couple of days ago. Today there is yet another full page ad in the same paper. I assume they have run similar campaigns in other UK newspapers over the past few days, The ads are quite intriguing …
I am not a cliche
“all your snacks are belong to us”
webcam on the slug
trivia’s visitors
the latest from El Reg
- 'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8 2012/05/21
- Google snubs Euro watchdog's 'abuse of dominance' claims 2012/05/21
- ALL NHS patient records online by 2015 2012/05/21
- IBM parks parallel file system on Big Data's lawn 2012/05/21
- NVIDIA VGX VDI: New tech? Or rehashed hash? 2012/05/21
- Audi proposes PC-packing stunt bikes 2012/05/21
- Met cops' CSI mobe-snoop tech sparks privacy fears 2012/05/21
- Does private cloud follow virtualisation? 2012/05/21
- IP law probe MPs hunt for smoking gun, find plenty of smoke 2012/05/21
- Nasdaq red-faced after software snafu stalls Facebook IPO 2012/05/21
- Core Wars: Inside Intel's power struggle with NVIDIA 2012/05/21
- Ouch! Facebook falls below IPO value in pre-trading on Nasdaq 2012/05/21
- What's copying your music really worth to you? 2012/05/21
- Brussels throws antitrust settlement lifeline to Google 2012/05/21
- Resistance is futile? Memristor RAM now cheap as chips 2012/05/21
- Another NHS trust coughs up £90k fine for lax fax acts 2012/05/21
Category Archive: privacy
Nov 16 2011
do not buy one of these
Standalone IP cameras have come down in price quite remarkably over the past few years. It is now perfectly possible to get a camera for between £50.00 and £75.00, and this makes them attractive for anyone wanting to set up simple “home surveillance” systems. I bought one recently just to see what I could …
Nov 09 2011
do I trust this site?
Following a visit to EFF to read an article on e-book privacy, I met this: So. EFF uses a wildcard SSL cert issued by a company which was breached earlier this year.
Oct 11 2011
I have a policy
As I have said in many posts in the past, I care about my privacy. I also care about yours. Ironically however, I have not until now codified exactly what I mean by that, nor have I identified what I will or will not do to protect your privacy. This seems to me a little …
Mar 29 2011
irony is not dead
Installing counterize to analyse trivia’s logs has been instructive. I now know that some of my most visited pages are consistently those of a “how-to” nature (in particular, those about postfix, dovecot and, strangely, reflashing the old BT home hub). In many ways this is satisfying since one of the objectives of this blog is …
Jan 23 2011
click here
The Cory Doctorow article referenced at the end of the post below mentions URL shorteners as potentially dangerous because they completely obscure the actual URL you will be taken to if you click them. By way of experiment I thought I’d post one here just to see how often it is used.
Jan 23 2011
damn, I think I got hit by a 419er
I am normally pretty careful about my on-line security and privacy. I take a lot of care to ensure that my home network is nailed down tightly and all the clients and servers on it are also nailed down as well as I know how. I don’t use software which is susceptible to the majority …
Sep 04 2010
it’s not that I’m anti google
I’m just pro privacy. And google just happens to be one of the worst offendors when it comes to breaches of my privacy. El Reg yesterday ran an article pointing to the consumerwatchdog.org ad depicting Eric Schmidt as a “privacy pervert”. Deliciously, that ad is hosted on youtube. But consumerwatchdog have long campaigned about google’s …
Aug 29 2010
phone home
Google’s chrome browser first appeared back in 2008, since when many commentators have sung its praises. Apparently it is “blindingly fast” (well, let’s face it firefox can be a tad slow, particularly if loaded down with a swathe of plugins) “clean”, and “simple”. Until recently I had not tried chrome (for some fairly obvious reasons) …
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