Library Cataloging
An excellent edition of the Sceeen Savers aired last night, April 28. It dealt with on-line privacy. Tips on encription, WiFi security, password protection, and more. If you have some responsibility with public computing in your institution this would be a good read. If you are concerned with your own privacy while on-line this is a good introduction.
- Https Everywhere
The EFF has a new version of HTTPS Everywhere. This week, EFF launched a new version of HTTPS Everywhere, a free security tool that provides enhanced privacy protection for Firefox browser users. EFF built HTTPS Everywhere to automatically switch many...
- Privacy
What ideas do we have about privacy? Maybe not the same as those who would participate in Blippy. "Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss the things people are buying. Automatically share your favorite purchases from iTunes, Amazon, Zappos, Visa,...
- Niso To Develop Standard Identification For Institutions
FOAF for institutions from the folks at NISO.Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have voted to approve the creation of a working group to explore issues surrounding institutional identification. This working group will be...
- Spyware
AdAware 6 has been released. It willscan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that...
- Open Source
Over at Slashdot the hacker/code writing community is concerned with privacy issues in the library, Building Anonymous-Friendly Computer Libraries?. Seems the FBI intrusions have had an impact.Wouldn't it be nice if that crowd jumped in to help develop...
Library Cataloging
Privacy
An excellent edition of the Sceeen Savers aired last night, April 28. It dealt with on-line privacy. Tips on encription, WiFi security, password protection, and more. If you have some responsibility with public computing in your institution this would be a good read. If you are concerned with your own privacy while on-line this is a good introduction.
- Https Everywhere
The EFF has a new version of HTTPS Everywhere. This week, EFF launched a new version of HTTPS Everywhere, a free security tool that provides enhanced privacy protection for Firefox browser users. EFF built HTTPS Everywhere to automatically switch many...
- Privacy
What ideas do we have about privacy? Maybe not the same as those who would participate in Blippy. "Blippy is a fun and easy way to see and discuss the things people are buying. Automatically share your favorite purchases from iTunes, Amazon, Zappos, Visa,...
- Niso To Develop Standard Identification For Institutions
FOAF for institutions from the folks at NISO.Members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) have voted to approve the creation of a working group to explore issues surrounding institutional identification. This working group will be...
- Spyware
AdAware 6 has been released. It willscan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that...
- Open Source
Over at Slashdot the hacker/code writing community is concerned with privacy issues in the library, Building Anonymous-Friendly Computer Libraries?. Seems the FBI intrusions have had an impact.Wouldn't it be nice if that crowd jumped in to help develop...