In a discouraging development, the safest and most effective web search interface has been forced to end its service.
Scroogle has been operating a “Google scraper” since 2002. We have featured the search interface on all of our web sites and encouraged users to make Scroogle their first choice for Google searching. This was because Scroogle [...]
The following is the response (unedited, the typos are their own) by Web of Trust to Secure Surfing Organization’s complaint about their “we’re not responsible” reputation rating system. Below it you will find the original message we submitted and you can find our full assessment in the immediately previous SSO Report.
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Most people are familiar with the original form of extortion marketing on the internet. The scam was to register someone’s domain name and then try to sell it to the owner of the trademark or brand for a profit. That practice has largely ended with the application of [...]
Some people thought we were exaggerating when we wrote Your TV will be spying on you next.
Well, it is happening much faster than even we anticipated. Today, May 07, 2010, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an order in favour of the corporate movie industry lobby, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The order grants [...]
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Not being paranoid doesn’t mean no one’s out to get you.
Ah, for the days when that saying didn’t start with the word “not.”
As an interesting exercise, take a visit to Sysomos , which is one of many vendors in the business of watching you to the finest detail [...]
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“Agnitum Outpost Pro beta 7 is without question the best firewall software we have ever encountered” — our highlight conclusion.
Over the past two weeks we’ve been installing, running and uninstalling like mad. We wanted to update our experience with previously reviewed programs and add a couple [...]
The web has become littered with services offering to backup your precious files and data. There are television ad campaigns and blog-stacking galore to temp you into this or that “free” service.
Some of them are down right scary while others are just not quite as they appear.
SpiderOak.com provides one such online backup service, including a [...]
We have been enthusiastically testing two new services launched to provide privacy and identity protection. DMNRA6T4TQ2Z
The Secure Surfing Organization is a long-time advocate of the Anonymizer Anonymous Browsing and Total Net Shield services.
Having used the services for years with great success, we were a little gun-shy about the transition to a completely different anonymizing [...]
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This alert is directed at anyone who may have reason to provide information to the National Retail Federation, particularly retailers and employees of retailers who are members of that federation. If you have at any point provided any information that you considered sensitive or private, you should immediately [...]
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