I received another one of those “I hacked your OS and will send screenshots of all the adult sites you visited, blahblahblah” emails. As I do, I checked the BTC wallet. I am always glad if I find no payments, but when I went to check the BTC wallet for this particular one, I found…
Category: Misc
Some useful tips to protecting privacy and security
If you’re not following Bill Fitzgerald on Twitter, do it now (@FunnyMonkey). Bill also has a website, http://www.funnymonkey.com and GitHub resources. Today, Bill tweeted: Want to get a sense if a school web site (or service) potentially has Facebook trackers? Open a web page, and hit ctlr-u to view the html source. Hit ctrl-f to…
Privacy Is Over. We Must Fight Harder Than Ever To Protect Our Civil Liberties.
An editorial from Katherine Mangu-Ward, the editor-in-chief of Reason, says, in part: Privacy is dead. We have killed it, you and I. It happened slowly and then all at once, much like falling in love. We traded away some of our privacy for convenience, with credit cards and GPS and cloud computing and toll transponders….
FTC Releases Agenda for Workshop on Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule
FTC Releases Agenda for Workshop on Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule The Federal Trade Commission released the agenda for an October 7, 2019 workshop that will examine the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule in light of evolving business practices and new technology in the online marketplace. The FTC is holding the workshop as part…