Tags: security
Tags: security
Utah actor arrested in laptop theft; caught answering Skype video call
Posted Monday July 21, 2008, 7:23 pm, Over one day old at Skype Journal
Michael Birkeland, a comedic actor and generally well-liked guy, was arrested Friday for stealing a laptop from Utah Valley University. Laptop returned, Birkeland arrested, bond posted, and he'll be in court on Monday.
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Batman, the surveillance society, and moral design
Posted Monday July 21, 2008, 7:23 pm, Over one day old at Skype Journal
This is all for Batman, not for the corrupted Gotham Police Department. Lucius Fox, CEO of WE, tells Bruce Wayne this is too much power for one man. What systemic resistance could you build into a system so it is not abused? so it is not abusable?
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Passpack password manager goes offline with Passpack Desktop
Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 1:04 am, Over one day old at Download Squad
Filed under: Internet, Security, Web services, web 2.0 Passpack is an online password manager application that lets you store all of your passwords for web sites, bank accounts, or pretty much anything else in one place.
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Akismet Blocks 1 Million Spam Comments
Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 6:34 am, Over one day old at Quick Online Tips
But spam comments come in so fast that its impossible to snap a screenshot in time… Related Akismet Blocks 400,000 Spam Comments Here Akismet Wordpress Ham and Spam Statistics Is Akismet Wrongly Blocking Your Not-Spam Blog Comments?
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Glubble and Kidzui - good kid browsers, silly names
Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 1:04 am, Over one day old at Download Squad
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Gmail adding log-in monitoring features
Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 1:04 am, Over one day old at Download Squad
Filed under: Security, E-mail, Web services, Google Have you ever asked yourself, "Is someone else using my email account?" Well, if you're the cautious type, Google just added a few log-in monitoring features to its email service, so such paranoid questions won't feel so pressing anymore.
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Symantec Endpoint Management Suite 1.0
Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 5:41 am, Over one day old at Silicon Valley, Technology, Media InfoTalk
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Truecrypt Updates to v6, Hides Your Subversive Plots Even Better!
Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 4:43 pm, Over one day old at Download Squad
Filed under: Security, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source Truecrypt has been a trusted name in on-the-fly encryption for ages (v5 arrived in February ). It'll also hide volumes, and on Vista and Windows 2008 you can even hide a system volume (not on XP, though).
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Backup your flash drives with USB Image Tool
Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 12:55 am, Over one day old at Download Squad
Instead, every chunk of data on your flash drive is saved in a single file that you can then burn to a disc, upload to an offsite storage location, or just save on your hard drive. You plug in a drive, hit backup, and choose a location to store the image.
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Allway Sync: Easy file sync for Windows, now with Amazon S3 support
Posted Saturday July 5, 2008, 12:55 am, Over one day old at Download Squad
But there are a few things that set Allway Sync apart. First up, you can install Allway Sync on a flash drive to carry with you and use on multiple PCs. Second, Allway Sync is free for personal use and you're only required to pay for a license if you're a heavy user of if you feel like it.
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