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Tuesday 20th July 2010

Telstra’s Internet and Cyber-safety site thing

Aussie telco Telstra has launched their new Internet and Cyber-safety website for Australian internet users. Shouldn’t the word "safety" also be capitalised? No American spell checker I don’t mean capitalized!

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Saturday 03rd July 2010

The whole Beef Taco Firefox debate

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you’d know I’m a huge fan of Taco for Firefox, the Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-out extension. Running an update yesterday I noticed there are now two different versions: the classic Taco and a new Beef Taco fork. Ugh, too many food puns.

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Friday 11th June 2010

Australia to record browsing history?

Senator Conroy

It’s past the stage where we can laugh and call Senator Stephen Conroy a hapless, bumbling boob who espouses Ted Stevens School of Internets ideals, it’s time to start acknowledging him as a grave and real threat to the privacy and security of Australians.

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Tuesday 25th May 2010

#CloudSourceSG, SalesForce in Singapore

Raffles City Convention Centre sign for CloudSourceSG

I must admit a certain level of professional ignorance when it comes to cloud computing; much of my own commentary on the subject has been limited to security problems and my general anger with the way sites like Facebook have abused their users. It was refreshing to see some good stuff :).

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Friday 21st May 2010

Installing TrueCrypt on x86 or x84 Fedora

TrueCrypt

Because of some licencing issues (that from a pragmatic point of view don’t really bother me) TrueCrypt for Linux isn’t usually available from package managers unless you add third party repositories. I really hate that word. I prefer installing it manually, and the installer lets me choose where to put it.

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Friday 14th May 2010

14th of May is Kill Your Facebook Day

In response to the continual antics of Zuckerberg and Co, today was the International Kill Your Facebook Day (or variations upon that theme).

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Tuesday 04th May 2010

Does Facebook sell me with a pretty bow?

Icon from the Tango Desktop project

Soylent Greenbes: You are not Facebook’s customer. You are the product that they sell to their real customers — advertisers. Forget this at your peril.

Alas, forgetting still doesn’t give you the ability to permanently delete your account and have Facebook forget you. Which is a shame because in Soviet Russia, Facebook forgets you.

Friday 23rd April 2010

Facebook third parties and inconvenient privacy

I know I’ve been saying this repeatedly for years now, but it seems just when Facebook does something interesting, they take two steps back in privacy in the same pen stroke. I’m saving my worrying out loud about Facebook’s new Like button for another post, this one has to do with (yet another!) disturbing policy change.

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Wednesday 31st March 2010

Personal take on CNET's iPhone 4G wishlist

Photo from DesignedByItem.com

Earlier this month CNET’s David Carnoy compiled a list of 25 features he wanted for the next generation iTelephone. This is my own personal take on them… which isn’t to say other people don’t have different needs!

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Tuesday 30th March 2010

Uh oh, Facebook pre-approved third-party sites

Facebook’s constant terms of service changes almost seem designed to test the limits of what they can get away with, much like Microsoft in the 1990s. This is the creepiest part of their proposed privacy policy:

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Dedicated to my groovy late mum Debra Schade.