16 Days of Christmas – NSA edition
In preparation for my book, Are You Listening? Lessons in Waste, Abuse, and Mismanagement from the Agency .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Christmas, Christmas Ornaments, NSA Christmas Ornaments2023 Job Hunting Guide – Layoffs, pain, and treading water
An Open Challenge to Todd Davis of Lifelock
I have been challenging the value of Lifelock for a while based on the fact that they claim to prevent ID theft, but can't. It looks like several other people have come to that conclusion and are busy suing him for as much of his millions that they can get.
The problem is that even with CNN, Wired, and .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Identity Theft, Lifelock, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty Tricks, Todd DavisUsing Gmail to Track Companies That Leak Your Data
Even though I've shown that bigger companies don't leak data (or didn't used to anyway), that doesn't stop smaller sites/companies. An easier way to see if someone is sharing your e-mail address when you don't want to is to use variations of your own e-mail address for each site. Google's .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Gmail, Hotmail, Internet, Spam, Tips and TricksMassive Multi-player Online Gaming for Kids – Beware
There are already plenty of cases of adults or college students who have lost jobs and dropped out of school due to MMO gaming obsessions. Now we're going to unleash this on our kids?
If you're thinking of letting you kid play an MMO, be very careful about what game you choose and be sure to set limits on .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Families, Gaming, MMOSuper Tuesday Meet E-Voting Kryptonite
Several states are still using e-voting despite the disastrous security they provide. Because of that, voting advocacy groups have labeled six of the 24 states in the primary as being high risk for miscounts due to tampering or malfunction. Best of all, these miscounts would be undetectable due to lack of a paper record for audit or recount.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Evoting, Primary Elections, Super Tuesday, VotingBush Countdown Clock
Ok, so there’s a bunch out there already, but they don’t give you the code, they want you to point your browser to their code. I don’t want to do that. So here’s my own counter that you can freely use and modify. Please keep the link back to this site though (or at least credit me somewhere nearby). Enjoy 😀
VeriChip’s Turn – Loses A Laptop With Unencrypted Employee Information
This might actually be good news. First, it’s only data on their employees instead of countless numbers of innocent people. Second, VeriSign is not that nice of a company. And most importantly, they are responsible for VeriChip, the spinoff company that is responsible for pushing human implanted RFID. Maybe a little ID theft (or worrying about it) will be a good wakeup call for them and they’ll be a little .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: RFIDCalling for Accountability of the Federal Trade Commission
If you didn't already know, I'm pretty mad at the FTC. Though ID theft has been the top consumer complaint for the last 6 years running, though they have put a large amount of resources into their consumer education campaign (on their anti-ID theft website for example), though the chairwoman of the FTC, Deborah Platt Majoras, co-chaired the Presidential ID Theft Taskforce, they have completely failed to educate customers about .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Casual Gaming Big Business and Getting Bigger
I was glad to see this Ars Technica article about how casual gaming is a huge thing especially in the arena of casual MMOs. This is what I’ve been saying all along with my City of Heroes webpage.
Tags: Gaming