March 10, 2025 Slay Browser Ads Forever Google’s Chrome browser is rolling out changes that will hamstring ad blockers – so there’s never been a better time to try a better…
July 29, 2024 CrowdStrike Lessons Learned Last week, we all learned about a company called CrowdStrike that apparently has the capability to single-handedly bring multiple airlines, hospitals and other large…
June 3, 2024 Migrate to Mastodon Most major social media platforms are a hot mess. Your feed is filled with tons of crap you never asked to see and your…
February 26, 2024 Mitigating AI Risks Artificial Intelligence is the buzzword of the day. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, there has been a flood of AI-based tools…
January 29, 2024 Data Privacy Week 2024 While every week is Data Privacy Week here at Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons, the rest of the world stops to join us in focusing…
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…
