September 5, 2022 LastPass Source Code Breach Password manager software maker LastPass suffered a data breach last week, which understandably made their customers very nervous – and caused some people to…
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…
May 2, 2022 What is the Most Private Browser? Security isn’t a big differentiator today when choosing a web browser. First of all, 3 of the top 5 browsers all use the same…
April 4, 2022 De-Google Your Life (Part 4) I wrap up my de-Google project this week with two biggies: Google Drive and Google Docs. I decided to reduce my Google data footprint…
February 7, 2022 De-Google Your Life One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2022 is to minimize my Google footprint. In reality, it’s very difficulty to completely avoid Google products,…
June 7, 2021 Have I Been FLoCed? (Part 2) Is it possible for you to view your FLoC ID right now? And if so, can you decode this ID to understand what Google…
May 31, 2021 Have I Been FLoCed? (Part 1) The public has voted and the results are in: people do not want to be tracked. In response, like pop-up ads before them, third…
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…
September 16, 2019 Google’s Not-So-Private Sandbox No doubt sensing the impending US privacy regulations, Google has released a plan to “enhance” user privacy… by finding different ways to track you….
June 9, 2019 A Tale of Two Browsers: Chrome vs Firefox Google Chrome is the most popular web browser on the planet by far, used by about two thirds of all web surfers. But Google…
