I have a guest post over at Freewaregenius discussing Eraser, an open-source application that allows you to securely delete your files. Just deleting a file with sensitive information doesn't get rid of it, often it can be retrieved or undeleted. Eraser allows you to securely get rid of these files unlike the normal delete function built into Windows. Check out the full article … [Read more...]
Mozilla Gets Firefox 3.6.2 Out the Door Early
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.2 a full week ahead of schedule. The development and release of this latest version was accelerated to address a highly critical vulnerability that could allow remote execution of code which Mozilla has been providing updates on through their security blog. Due to this vulnerability, a department of the German government had just advised its … [Read more...]
Location, Location, Location in a Digital World
Location seems to have become all the buzz around the Internet world for the past few weeks, so I wanted to chime in with some of the interesting tidbits and long-lasting effects that this will have on Internet culture. Basically, I intend to show you all the happening places for happening places. Smart Phones It would be almost impossible for you to not have heard of … [Read more...]
How to File a CAN-SPAM Complaint with the FTC
After continuing to receive additional spam daily through the same campaign that I posted here a week ago, I decided it was time to escalate things. It became apparent that the Unsubscribe link on these e-mail messages wasn't doing anything. If the FTC enforced the CAN-SPAM Act this would be the proper venue and for now it's about the only action that we can take. You can find … [Read more...]
A Twitter Screw-Up? I Don’t Follow.
Checking Twitter tonight for more MediaTemple news, I saw the latest Tweets of those people I follow. Among that list was also a posting by a person I didn't know, I didn't follow, and didn't follow me. This random person and random post just seemed to appear in my list without reason. Anybody know why or see this before? I confirmed I wasn't following them and have no … [Read more...]