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Online privacy and information security. Identity management. Anti-virus issues, phishing, adware, malware, spyware and other malicious information techynology threats. How to surf anonymously on the Web. How to bypass and traverse security firewalls. By knowing what is possible you can protect your online privacy and defend the integrity of your information more effectively.

Why DRM Is Bad For Society: A Briefing For Microsoft If you want to understand why copyright issues and the focus on digital rights management has created so much fuss and such a clear stand-off of end users to the future secure content distribution strategy heralded by Microsoft this is an absolute must-read. This is the written ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link | Comment Robin Good -- June 19

Standards: Do We Really Need Them? I have decided to write this article because I became gradually interested with online collaboration technologies and with their ability and potential to influence and shape the kind of future we are going to be living in. I am not certainly a specialist in the field of ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 26

Are RFID Tags A Privacy Threat We Should be Concerned About? As some of you may have been able to read from the news of the last few days officials participating at the World Information Society Forum in Geneva were provided with RFID badges (radio-frequency identification chips) having the ability to monitor the wondering and detailed ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 16

Must-Have RSS Newsfeed For Communication Experts I have just finished testing a new RSS newsfeed that I have created for all of you, communication experts in need of staying up-to-date with cutting-edge and cost-effective tools, ideas and resources that can make a difference when looking for a sound communication strategy or solution. The ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link | Comment Robin Good -- December 9

Microsoft Ponders New Critical Vulnerabilities Found In IE A Danish security company, Secunia, has just released a report indicating that a new set of VERY critical security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Internet Explorer 6.0. The Copenhagen, Denmark, company has classified the vulnerabilities as "extremely critical" and is advising all IE users to disable Active ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 26

Stop! ID Thief! Credit card companies allow you to view your transactions on secure Web sites. For many people, however, even the few minutes it takes to deal with these sites is a big disincentive. But personal-finance programs like Quicken or Money streamline this process. Read the full story ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link Robin Good -- November 14

DRM Lock-In Reminder Of Potential Damaging Security Risks "Incompatible anticopying technologies known as digital rights management (DRM) are being applied to everything from music files to Microsoft Word documents, and the lack of rules that can make these schemes work together is increasingly prompting calls for a standards revolution. The problem, critics say, is ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 7

Removing Spam From Blogs I was just discussing today the issue of how to rapidly eliminate the number of spam messages posted by unscrupolous marketers on Web sites and blogs that provide spaces for comments at the end of articles, and making some recommendations to the Communication Agents on how ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link | Comment Robin Good -- November 4

100 Percent Virus-Free Mac OS X Adds More Privacy And Security If you hadn't realized it yet, a 100 percent virus free computing environment is not as far fetched and away in the future as most Windows users would think. Mac OS X, due to its natively-secure architecture and limited popularity has been consistently able to keep itself ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 23

Wireless Body Networking At 10 Megabits/Sec The ElectAura-Net is a true 10-Mbit/second wireless body network that takes advantage of human bodies and standard indoor floors to create highly efficient and reliable networks. Roland Piquepaille reports in his excellent Technology Trends column: In "Human Body Network Gets Fast," Technology Research News tells us that ... read more | cat.: Privacy and Security | Link | Comment Robin Good -- October 19

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