October 18, 2021 Rough Week for Facebook Facebook had a horrible, no-good, very bad week. Not only did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp go completely offline for about six hours, a whistleblower…
May 3, 2021 App Tracking Transparency After what seemed like forever, Apple has finally released its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature which requires apps to get your permission to track…
March 8, 2021 Last Straw for LastPass Ep210. I’ve recommended LastPass for years – since I wrote my book and every day since. Until now. There are several good (secure and…
September 7, 2020 Firefox Privacy (Part 2) Did you know that Google’s search can track you on a non-Chrome browser, even if you block third party cookies? And did you also…
August 31, 2020 Firefox Privacy (Part 1) If you really care about online privacy, you can’t use Google’s Chrome browser. Google is an advertising company. Everything else they do is in…
July 6, 2020 TikTok Boom TikTok is the hot new social media service (Snapchat and Instragram are so last year), particularly in Asian countries like India. But India just…
May 25, 2020 Apple vs FBI, Part 2 The FBI is once again trash-talking Apple for not helping them in their investigation of a terrorist – this time, the alleged perpetrator of…
May 18, 2020 Beware the Evil Maid Intel created the Thunderbolt protocol to give us blazingly fast data transfer and other interesting features. Thunderbolt usually comes with the newer USB-C ports,…
March 23, 2020 Beware COVID-19 Scams Never let a good crisis go to waste. Though normally applied to politics, it can be equally applied to opportunistic cyber criminals. With the…
July 8, 2019 Big Brother 2.0 The US government is once again looking to break or hobble encrypted communications in the name of national security and law enforcement. They claim…
