Or Why You Might Reconsider Forwarding Your Work Mail to Gmail "Do No Evil!" That's Google's well-known catch-phrase that makes people more trusting of them. It has been called into question a few times when Google has over-stepped its bounds before and I'll cite the Google Buzz privacy issues as a recent example. Would it be evil for Google to do something that you have agreed … [Read more...]
Bing’s Search History via Proxy
My friend was telling me about this interesting tidbit people had found at his work when using Microsoft's search engine Bing. Bing keeps a search history for you based on your external IP address. For most this won't be a big deal but if you're at work and going through a proxy, everybody will be sharing the same external IP address. This means you'll have a shared search … [Read more...]
The Backlash for Computer Security Experts
It seems to happen every 6 months or so: Technology companies get mad at security researchers and the terms that get thrown around a lot are 'responsible disclosure'. We just so happen to be in another one of those situations where more than one incident has occurred recently. Last week, a Google employed researcher went public with information regarding a vulnerability he had … [Read more...]
Avoiding IT Career Burnout
IT has nothing new and exciting going on. In these "economic times" of layoffs and furloughs, IT teams are being kept quite busy (if not overwhelmed) with just the mundane day-to-day operations that are needed to keep the organization running. There is little time or budget to experiment with the innovative, fun, and ground-breaking new technologies. It's hard to justify … [Read more...]
How to Remove the Google Background Image
Google has added an image background to www.Google.com and people are not happy about it, judging by the quick climb of the query 'remove google background' in Google Trends. Google allows you to set the background to an image as announced on the Official Google Blog and if you don't set it to something, starting last night, Google sets it to random images for you with no … [Read more...]