Waking up in the morning is challenging enough for some of us. Waking up to discover all the content of your blog is gone and seemingly unrecoverable is even more challenging. Unfortunately, Hostgator’s support was inundated with support tickets due to another issue they had last week, and it was quite a while before they…
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EFF’s ‘Secure Messaging Scorecard’ Rates Digital Communication Tools
From EFF: In the face of widespread Internet data collection and surveillance, we need a secure and practical means of talking to each other from our phones and computers. Many companies offer “secure messaging” products – but how can users know if these systems actually secure? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its Secure Messaging…
The Digital Currency Dilemma: Anonymity vs. Privacy (Op-Ed)
First Global Credit’s CEO Gavin Smith comments on digital currency exchange Bitstamp’s policy change and the issue of anonymity in the digital currency markets. This week Bitcoin Exchange, Bitstamp, fulfilled a promised policy change of handing over to the authorities all details of all the unverified accounts on their system. Further those unverified accounts would be subject…
‘One Man’s Creepy Is Another’s Targeted’: Data-Privacy Gray Areas
Penny Crosman reports: … A company that combines information gleaned from various sources about customers’ location, preferences and purchases may know more about them than they realize, violating implicit assumptions of transparency and consent. Sometimes what’s considered a privacy violation changes with time, as people adapt to new technology and get comfortable with it and…