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!
Tuesday 20th July 2010
Saturday 03rd July 2010
Friday 11th June 2010
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.
Tuesday 25th May 2010
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 :).
Friday 21st May 2010
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.
Friday 14th May 2010
In response to the continual antics of Zuckerberg and Co, today was the International Kill Your Facebook Day (or variations upon that theme).
Tuesday 04th May 2010
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
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.
Wednesday 31st March 2010
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!
Tuesday 30th March 2010
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:
