August 28, 2023 Assessing Your Network Security In the third part of my series on securing your home network, we’ll assess your security and privacy vulnerabilities. In prior weeks, we’ve exhaustively…
June 5, 2023 Blocking .zip Domains Two weeks ago, I told you about the availability of two new top-level domains that also happen to be popular file name extensions: .zip…
February 27, 2023 Unmasking Shortened Links Web links are great, when you’re on the web. But if you need to read off or write down a web address, or URL,…
August 8, 2022 Security Via Subtraction All software has bugs, so the more software you have installed, the more bugs you have. It’s not just the bugs in any individual…
September 21, 2020 Take Out the (Windows) Trash If you’re a Windows PC user, you know the term “bloatware”, or maybe “crapware”. Every consumer PC comes chock full of it. Free trials…
August 12, 2019 The Tyranny of the Default Marketing firms love to tell us that we control our privacy – you simply need to opt out of tracking! Like Dorothy, we’ve had…
March 5, 2018 🎧 Facebook’s Two-Faced Privacy Facebook has wants your face. Guess we should have seen that coming. While Facebook has been using face recognition for years now, it began…
