Please read the comments which have some updates regarding email config. You can find me on https://noc.social/web/@marc
Some people are really not too happy with Silicon Valley’s monopoly on social media. There are some serious privacy concerns, and we’ve seen …
We’ve seen some successful technical “reinventions” of the Web such as HTTPS/2 and HTML5 making sites faster and more responsive, but this “Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It” initiative is not new, but I will come to that later.
There …
WordPress.com, the official hosted version of WordPress have switched over to enforcing SSL, while this is mostly a political statement, there is some merit, firstly you might actually have some forms which should be secure, allowing users to …
I don’t think kids are getting the message, allowing anything that you would not be comfortable for your mother to see, should never be allowed onto any digital device, from explicit text messages to embarrassing pictures, never, I don’t know …
VPN offer far more security than the proxy servers which most people are used to using, when using commercial paid for services proxy server accounts are normally much cheaper and simpler to set-up for the client which is their only …
Where privacy meets security, two of my favourite subjects, that often collide, both very emotive and contentious.
I think Snowden is wrong here, processing power increases exponentially, a proven fact (Moore’s law) and data mining methods are only …
Net Lingo give the most complete description I have seen so far for Digital Dirt:
Unflattering information or opinions that you may have written on blogs or in chat rooms that could come back to haunt you, for example …
In these very sad cases of malicious sharing of embarrassing images and video. In Canada, Rehtaeh’s law is being proposed and now in Israel revenge porn is punishable with 5 years imprisonment, “putting an end to virtual rape, in which …
I am very pleased to have been accepted as a volunteer by ISC2 to present their “Safe and Secure Online” message to local schools (in Fredericton).
Kids don’t tend to get the vital messages regarding Cyber Security from media, …
The IETF announced that they are taking the lead on to “develop the technical specifications to improve the privacy and security of the Internet”. They are probably best placed to raise the profile in the IT community. Looking at the …