Friday, March 27, 2009

Will Big Brother Be Watching?

Here is an article about bits of electronic data stored forever, providing a "God's eye view" of where your mobile phone has been and which sites you've surfed. Are we worried about nothing? Judge for yourself:

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A fabulous review of "Witch Hunts on the Internet"


Check out this review of Yvonne Walus' novella, "Witch Hunts on the Internet": http://lkhunsaker.blogspot.com/2009/03/book-review-witch-hunts-on-internet.html.

"... Witch Hunts is an eerily realistic novella that made me think I was reading an actual journal entry of a scary moment in a mother's life. When she discovers her 13 year old daughter engaged in online chats with a man claiming to be 16, she does research. With her police background, she does very thorough research, to find her suspicions were right and the 16 year old is actually 40. ..."

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Netbook users beware!

Netbook security is practically non-exixtent: http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/5364202/netbooks-offer-hackers-private-data-gateway/

Rethink your Internet security...

Our "anything-goes" attitude toward sharing data and accepting applications on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace can be exploited by cyber-criminals.