Entries from February 2012

Avoiding unwanted penetration

February 29th, 2012 · Comments Off

Danish IT security company Secpoint produces a portable penetrator kit, which at first glance one might imagine is some kind of crowbar for breaking into networks. And, in one sense, it is, it’s a complete security testing suite that can break into your wired or wireless network very quickly if there are any vulnerabilities within [...]

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Delete your YouTube history

February 27th, 2012 · Comments Off

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has some timely advice on protecting your privacy ahead of the March 1 changes to Google‘s new, unified privacy policy, not only should you delete and disable web search history, as I mentioned last week, but you should take a look at your YouTube search and viewing history as data [...]

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Interest in “no pin” for Pinterest

February 22nd, 2012 · 1 Comment

If you’re a photographer or simply post a lot of your own photos on your blog, you may not want Pinterest users to be able to leech them on to their pinboards. There’s a very simple hack to prevent the Pinterest system from letting its users pin your photos. Simply add a meta tag to [...]

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Opt out of online tracking

February 22nd, 2012 · 3 Comments

Once you’ve cleared your Google Web History, per the previous post, you should add an extension or to (like ScriptNo and AdBlock to your Chrome Browser (please tell me you’re not still using Internet Explorer). You can also permanently opt out of online ad personalization via cookies for over 150 tracking companies with Keep MORE [...]

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