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Forbes Privacy Advise
Forbes published an article on how to protect your privacy and I have a few comments on that. 1. Hushmail is garbage. They backdoored their own Java mail client once before at the request of the RCMP....
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Cloud Storage Review: Office365/SharePoint
Microsoft offers a hosted SharePoint as part of Office 365. SharePoint is a bit different than the other two services I’ve discussed so far: It’s not just a file synchronization, it’s also a content...
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Information disclosure
A client recently asked me for help with a fingerprint scanner/timeclock for employees to punch in and punch out. It seems that when the device finds an AP with spaces or underscores in the name some...
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Cloud Storage Review: Box
Box.com looks pretty good, but since they don’t provide a demo account unless I sign up with a credit card number that will be automatically billed I won’t be reviewing them. Too many companies ask for...
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Cloud Storage Review: Oxygen Cloud
Oxygen Cloud allows you to easily make your own shared folders accessible via the internet. It allows you to blend your own storage devices with storage provided by Oxygen itself. Management of...
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Cloud Storage Review: Box Enterprise
Initially I was a bit annoyed with Box because they refused to give me a free demo account, but luckily I thought I ought to get in touch with them one more time. This time I not only got a demo...
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Want to Combat Domestic Surveillance? Let’s Change the Deal with Google
The people of the formerly free world have again been dragged into a war not of their own choosing. This time, the enemy is not a nation, or an ethnic group, or even an idea. We have become the enemy....
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Do As We Say, Not As We Do: The Indictment of StealthGenie’s Hammad Akbar
Do you remember when your dad would expound upon you the dangers of smoking after his fifteenth cigarette that day? Even as a pimply-faced, hormonal teenager, the irony was not lost on you. Now, well...
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An ominous warning
I just bought a BYTECC Super Speed USB 3.0 SATA to USB adapter, to backup and consolidate data stored on a pile of disks. Upon opening the box I’m warned that I better make backups of the files that I...
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Cloud Storage Review: SugarSync for Business
SugarSync offers multi-user business accounts. I contacted SugarSync by email for a demo account on Tuesday morning, and I was up and running by the afternoon. Not having used SugarSync before, my...
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