Disabling 3rd Party Cookies in Firefox 3

A website cookie is a unique ID that is generated for each visitor to the website. This is an easy way for a site to track your purchases, pages visited within the site, ads you may have clicked on, or account information. Typically, this is an understood and accepted practice. These cookies are considered 1st [...]

Fourth Amendment is Overrated at US Borders

As you may or may not know, the US customs agents have free reign over all your electronic devices - now the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Business Travel Coalition have sent an open letter to Congress to ask, basically, what the hell?
The letter comes 10 days after a [...]

Web advertisers know what you did last summer

One would imagine that only the most neophyte Internet users understand that their movements are being watched and recorded. A study by TNS Global on behalf of TRUSTe only confirms that; web users are aware of the monitoring - and they hate it. From the survey of 1,015 randomly selected adults in the US:

57% are [...]

Threat of US spooks haunt Google

It wasn’t too long ago that Google put it’s full attention towards cloud-computing, targeting businesses and universities to utilize Gmail and other Google Apps as their  core infrastructure. Eighteen months ago, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada did just that - saving millions and months up front and hundreds of thousands in annual [...]

Do your part by deleting those lame birthday photos

An IDC research report commissioned by EMC exposes a revelation that, for the first  time ever, the total volume of digital information exceeds the world’s total storage capacity. Further troubling, it is estimated that by 2011 only half of the digital world will be stored. The current estimate of 281 billion gigabytes equates to roughly [...]