City in Montana Demands Your Login Details to be Hired
This is so wrong, I barely know what to say. I sure hope this trend doesn't start to catch on, because a lot of people would give up the information when they're pressured instead of doing the right thing and refusing.
"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]UK Police Can Hack Citizens Computer Without Warrant
This comes from a long string of stories about how bad privacy is getting in the UK. As bad as it's become in the US, apparently our friends out there have it much worse.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Computers, UK, Warrantless SearchesUK Loses Data on Over Half its Entire Population
They had it, they shouldn't have, now they lost it. Same story all over.
The funniest part of this is that they're trying to convince their public that it's a good idea to have a national ID card containing even more data and that they'll be responsible with that data.
Said .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Data Breaches, National ID, UKThe Giant Rabbit Hoax
There are many photoshopped and altered photos on the net. The easiest way to find them is to type "not photoshopped" into Google because people are big fat liars. One that constantly makes the rounds and is often listed as "amazing not photoshopped rabbit" is one of those times.
 It's FAKE. |
 This is the real one | .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
More Spying
But will anything be done this time? That's the question.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Big Brother, NSACarnegie Mellon Privacy Statement Report
Carnegie Mellon University has released a report that privacy policies are too long and too complicated and regulation might be necessary to force companies to stop screwing around with people.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Big BusinessWhat the Bailout Means to You
A little translation for the rest of us.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Bailout, CongressCountrywide Settles Predatory Lending Suit for Almost 9 Billion
All I can say is "good". There needs to be consequences for companies that manipulate people for greed.
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Countrywide, Predatory LendingJudge Supresses Report on Voting Machine Insecurity
Beware Blu-Ray Surprises
Simply put, media should be media, programs should be programs. Putting code or commands into media like movies, music, e-mail etc allows for viruses or worse and no one should have to worry about that. Well, worry.
If you put the new Blu-ray Iron Man movie into your computer it will try to connect to the Internet and download .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Big Business, Blu-Ray, DRM, Product Hacking