Just one day after the misleading story run by CTV, CBC News Network covered the chatroulette dot com site in its morning news cycle.
The expert brought forward by CBC did not leave the impression that parents are helpless, but advised them to use “content filtering or monitoring software.”
This is the appropriate advice. Where it falls [...]
The Canadian television broadcaster CTV, recently ran a story about how helpless parents are in dealing with sites such as chatroulette dot com. In its national news broadcast, imitating many global media, CTV put on an expert who suggested that parents have little or no control, as even products such as NetNanny may not exclude [...]
Information Week reported on a list post by the Tor Network that some of its servers have been compromised.
The Secure Surfing Organization publicly recommends the use of Anonymizer, primarily for ease of use and the strength of service that comes with a paid subscription.
This example, which Tor acknowledges requires at minimum users upgrade to a [...]
People have largely accepted that privacy is difficult to protect on the internet, if it they believe it is possible at all. Tips and tools on this site can go a long way to making privacy on the internet much easier than is commonly thought, but far too few people are either aware or care [...]
During November hearings by the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, equiv to U.S. FCC), the CEO of Rogers revealed in an offhand side comment that the company has plans to uniquely identify the activities of television viewers in the future.
The CRTC is holding hearings, primarily concerning the massive content piracy being perpetrated by [...]
by Glenn Caleval
Saturday November 14, 2009
BBC reported mass bans of Xbox consoles by Microsoft in advance of the upcoming release of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game. Searches of both the Microsoft site and the Xbox news release sites revealed no public statements on the matter other than the standard Xbox ban faq. [...]
In the below quoted article on the Avira website the free antivirus software publisher attempts to debunk claims by Symantec that free alternatives provide insufficient protection (we do encourage you to purchase “full” editions of outstanding software like Avast! but you should not be misled about the value of “free” versions.)
We restore the article here [...]
Tor is a free anonymizing service operated by volunteers.
You can read about Tor on its FAQ page.
First, the Secure Surfing Organization is an unabashed fan of Anonymizer.
Second, the Secure Surfing Organization definitely does support the Tor project and we happily recommend it to technically-inclined users who are willing to devote the time required.
For users who [...]
FreeCreditReport.com is owned by Experian, the credit reporting bureau through its ConsumerInfo.com properties.
Our review of the ConsumerInfo.com Privacy Notice resulted in the following ratings: CYA, Good Disclosure, Avoid.
The Avoid rating represents a fail. In their policy, this Experian company asserts:
“We may disclose information about you to affiliated and non-affiliated third parties.”
LunarPages is the preferred host for the the Secure Surfing Organization. On a long term plan, close to everything you could want is included for $4.95 per month.
There are no gotchyas that are hiding in the majority of other hosting providers’ plans. We do not like being surprised to discover, for example, that we cannot [...]
Via Walking Dolphins
