In the last few years we have seen reports of violence on college, high school and even grade school campuses. The Virginia Tech and Newtown shootings aren’t necessarily a confirmation of increasing crime on school campuses, but they certainly serve as reminders that we can’t always be with our kids to protect them. While the [...]
Tag Archives: Security and Privacy
Lessons on Privacy from the Adult Entertainment Industry at SXSWi
Yes, I know it’s been over for a few weeks now, but I still have some South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) notes about some interesting stuff that I encountered there that I would like to share with you all, so I hope you don’t mind. Note to Readers: This post discusses topics related to adult [...]
NBC Promotes Smarter Passwords in “The More You Know” Spot
A few weeks ago, there was a lot of buzz about vulnerabilities in Apple’s security — and as a result they rolled out two-step password verification — I tried to encourage my dad to enroll his Apple ID in it as well as my mom’s. I might as well have been speaking a foreign language, [...]
iSmartAlarm Puts Your iPhone in Charge of Security
One of the really cool parts of being at CES was the chance to check out accessories and products that are up and coming. Of those, there were more than a few that hooked into the ubiquitous iOS ecosystem. We carry our iPhones and iPads everywhere, and companies are taking them beyond just email and [...]
The Outcome of My ‘Unsubscribe’ Adventure
Back in mid-November, I wrote a post asking if those ‘unsubscribe’ links in emails of reputable companies actually meant anything. Carly wrote a follow-up post about how companies used junk mail blasts as targeted marketing, because it was surprisingly effective. So now it is about six weeks since I wrote my original post, making it nearly two months [...]
Randi Zuckerberg Learns the Hard Lesson of Facebook Privacy First-Hand
Over the Christmas holiday, Randi Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg’s sister and former director of Marketing at Facebook) posted a picture of her family around the kitchen island having fun, and someone else shared the image on Twitter. This was picked up on Buzzfeed and more thoroughly explained on GigaOm amongst other places. Zuckerberg called the person [...]
Parents, Check Out These 12 Myths of Protecting Your Kids Online
This holiday season millions of kids will be getting an iPhone, iPad, Android phone or tablet, Kindle Fire, Nook and so on … and maybe a few will get a traditional PC or Mac. One of the first things they will do with it is get online. Maybe just for email, but if they are [...]
SwannSmart Remote Camera Gives You Piece of Mind
We spend summers and many vacation breaks up in Pennsylvania. Much of the year, however, the house is unoccupied. And while we have neighbors who keep an eye on it for us, there’s nothing like seeing for ourselves that everything is okay. The SwannSmart camera should let us do that and a whole lot more. [...]
Flipside STRATA Wallet Review
I’ve been a fan of Flipside Wallet’s products since I first saw, and later reviewed, the Flipside 2X Wallet. (Read the post.) Sure, the Flipside Wallet 2X looks a bit unusual, but I really like it. I like the fact that it keeps my wallet organized; I like the fact that my credit cards are [...]
CrashPlan Backup Software’s Big Black Friday Discount
The only thing more of a pain in the tuckus (or as we say around the ol’ Gear Diary Facebook chatroom, a PITA) than setting up and maintaining a regular backup of your system is when you don’t do it, and suffer a catastrophic mess. In my case, for example, I had been diligently [...]
Passwords Plus for Android Now Available to Keep You Safe During the Holiday Shopping Rush
Back in the day, you maybe only had to deal with one or two passwords–for your ATM, maybe, and maybe for your corporate phone voice mail system. But now? Hell, you need a password for practically every web site you go to, it sometimes seems like. And password security is tricky; you want a good [...]
New Emergency GPS Wristwatch Now Funding
As a parent, one of things I particularly like about living in the intensely networked, GPS, high-tech era is being able to keep in touch with my kids no matter where they are. Some people (like my mom) probably think it extravagant, but both my kids have smartphones, and we use these to keep track [...]
GPS Tracker Service Keeps Loved Ones Safe
Our second dog, Isabelle, is a full-blood Corgi, with a breeding record and everything. One thing that surprised me when we got her was that she came (as they say) “microchipped”; that is, she has an RFID tracking microchip installed subcutaneously, so that if she ever gets lost her RFID with our contact info can [...]
AhnLab Introduces the V3 Click, the First-to-Market Personal Security Device for PCs
Viruses, trojans and spyware. These are the perennial pests of modern computing and the bane of system administrators and IT personnel everywhere, not to mention the end users themselves! When I first heard about USB flash drives being used to infect PCs a few years back, I wondered: if a USB device can infect a [...]
A Sad Milestone as Report Shows Post 9/11 Torture by Americans Much Worse Than Reported or Admitted
On September 11th, we remember all of the tragic loss of life from the 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Flight 93. We also celebrate and mourn all of those who responded to the tragedy and many who lost their lives trying to save others and still more who have lingering [...]
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