San Diego School and Local Authorities Violate Privacy Over Nothing
I find this story tremendously disturbing:Science project prompts SD school evacuation Summary of the story: a kid brought a science project to school that consisted of a Gatorade bottle and some...
View ArticleSunday Re-spin #2
So, I am just sitting down to write this now, and it’s already Sunday evening. The fact is, I’ve had several delays this week in getting content posted on the site, so there hasn’t been as much as I...
View ArticleRecent Changes at Facebook
There is something about Facebook that I have just come to not trust. I think the issue centers around the changes in their policies of late that have left me feeling a little less secure, and feeling...
View ArticleA Brief Word About Security
Yes, okay, this is a bit more of a geeky subject than I normally write about here. However, I wanted to make certain that everyone is clear on this: never reveal even a portion of any of your...
View Article10 Steps for Quit Facebook Day
I’ve written before about the problems I have with Facebook, especially after I read through their privacy and terms of use. Well, as you might have read lately, there have been more changes to their...
View ArticleWhy RSS Readers and the Choice of a Feed Reader Matters
Introduction I wrote a quick article last night listing several open source alternatives to Google Reader, after the announcement that Google plans to drop the application in July of this year. There...
View ArticleReturn journey in the blogsphere
When I started this site I wanted it to be a brain dump. More about the jumps between thoughts, and the non-apparent connections between those thoughts. Then I started reviewing stuff, and writing...
View ArticleBitcoin 101: What is Bitcoin?
I have become interested in Bitcoin over the past several months, but have not had the time to investigate it. The reason for my interest is due to numerous stories that have come out: The ECB...
View ArticleDOJ and AP Telephone Records
The story about the U.S. Department of Justice issuing a subpoena for phone records of the Associated Press has spread like wildfire. With good reason, as the EFF reports. There is a major need to...
View ArticlePro-cloud advocate misses the point about privacy and information sharing
If the government wants you, where you store your data doesn’t matter – View From Above. Ron Miller is the kind of technology hack that gives the IT profession a black-eye. While the central thesis of...
View ArticleThe Edward Snowden Leaks Part One
I have been avoiding writing about Edward Snowden for quite a while, resisting the urge to get caught up in the media hype about the situation. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to write about it, but...
View ArticleNSA Admits: There Have Been Intentional Abuses Of PRISM (via Techdirt)
The NSA starts to admit to abuses of their spying programs in the most laughable way possible...
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Sunday Re-spin #2
So, I am just sitting down to write this now, and it’s already Sunday evening. The fact is, I’ve had several delays this week in getting content posted on the site, so there hasn’t been as much as I...
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