Updated: 2011-10-26 04:35:19
When it comes to giving advice about picking strong passwords, experts are quick to point out some of the good password generators and managers available, or recite best-practices for making up your own. And although we do so with the best of intentions, it’s still easy for people’s eyes to gloss over when presented with [...]
Updated: 2011-10-24 21:52:59
Anonymizer just released the results of a new survey of people’s use of privacy protecting technologies. The short answer is that the old standards, anti-virus and firewalls, are widely used. Unfortunately they don’t actually do much to protect your privacy. They are more about security. For full details, read the article.
Updated: 2011-10-03 18:32:13
Thanks to a PrivacyBlog reader for pointing me to this article: Blackhat SEO – Esrun » Youtube privacy failure It looks like it is easy to find thumbnail images from YouTube videos that have been marked private. If you have any such videos, go back and check that you are comfortable with the information in the [...]
Updated: 2011-09-27 16:27:10
HideMyAss.com keeps logs and exposes their users. Why that is a bad policy, and how to judge a good privacy provider.
Updated: 2011-09-19 23:58:13
Schneier on Security: Domain-in-the-Middle Attacks Bruce Schneier on the real world effectiveness of a very simple domain name based man in the middle attack. Here is a Wired article on the same issue showing how it was used to steal 20 GB of email from a Fortune 500 company.
Updated: 2011-09-03 00:00:21
We all have passwords. Most of us hate writing a new one for every new account we open. The traditional thinking always said that for a password to be secure, it was necessarily unwieldy to memorize. So who wants to memorize vRg5BoTA for your new Spotify account when you just solidified a mnemonic in your [...]
