Category: Internet Security
The Google Navy - Gunning For Your Privacy
[this article appears as it was written for the October issue of my school newspaper] Google, the Olympian God of the Internet, announced on September 7, 2008 of its potential plans to move its entire server database out to sea. The plan is for the databases to be stored...
Search The Internet Unwatched…Err…Well Less Watched
Certainly moderns society has gotten used to just throwing anything they need into the search engine titan Google. Society's addiction to the king of search engines has lead to the acceptance of the two word combo "Google It" as an actual verb in the english language. To be...
Europe - the Judge Dredd of the internet
"I am the LAW!"
From the BBC :
"Europeans suspected of putting movies and music on file-sharing networks could be thrown off the web under proposals before Brussels.
The powers are in a raft of laws that aim to harmonise the regulations governing...
US courts destroy your right to privacy.
From the BBC :
"Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.
The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement.
Digital rights group...
Bill Thompson on Cloud Computing
Another interesting article by Bill Thompson for the BBC :
Please read the whole article on the BBC site, but some interesting extracts are:
"The issue was recently highlighted by reports that the Canadian government has a policy of not allowing public sector IT projects...
If you're not using GPG - Start!
From BBC :
Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK, it has emerged.
The plans, reported in the Times, are at an early stage and may be included in the draft Communications Bill...
Sun Microsystem's JavaFX & 'Project Hydrazine'
This one is going to burn up like rocket fuel! (A joke for the chemists among you). Now, I know many of the readers are not technophiles like me, so I shall try to keep this simple – JavaFX is a programming language – a ‘new’ version of Java if you will. It is being...
EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy
Do not reveal personal information inadvertently.
Turn on cookie notices in your Web browser, and/or use cookie mangement software or infomediaries.
Keep a “clean” e-mail address.
Don’t reveal personal details to strangers or just-met “friends”....
Facebook follow-up
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Facebook & Identity Theft
This has been known about for a while - but as the BBC have 'just exposed it' I thought I would post it here for the people who have not heard.
From BBC :
Personal details of Facebook users could potentially be stolen, the BBC technology programme Click has found.
The...
