The world knows where you live – that is not good.

It might be a bit of a surprise to you, it certainly was to me.  The Apple iPhone stores the location of where a photo was taken.  It’s known as Location.  Or geo-location with other makes of phones/cameras.  Seems harmless enough, doesn’t it.

Except when some enterprising people decide to create a Firefox plug-in [...]

So does the Corporate IT Policy get enforced?

It’s been my sad experience over the last 20+ years, that what’s in the IT Policy vs. what gets enforced, is a bit of guess work for most people.  Here is a short guide.

Always enforced. Looking at illegal porn (kiddies, dogs & gerbils).  If we find out about it, we have to [...]

Facebook Privacy Quiz

Ever take one of those Facebook quizzes to find out which superhero most resembles your dog, or have a friend who seems to spend most of their life doing so? Then you might be in for a surprise when you take this quiz and learn just how much of your personal information these [...]

OpenDNS, why it’s good.

Long story short …

OpenDNS is really good, and I can’t draw.

Long Story

You need talent to draw, I don’t have it, other blog posters seem to have some.  But is that going to stop me?

NO! (ummm, yes it did ) Crap drawing on your right …

OpenDNS

I need to [...]

A parent’s guide – Part 2

In part one, I described the creation of a Proxy Server/Content Blocking solution.

It worked.  Just.  But it was slow.

Back in part one, I said I’d review SquidGuard, but never got around to it.

Why? Mainly time pressures with work.  But as the man said, distance lends perspective.  I don’t think SquidGuard [...]

Spam Matters – How to report spam.

If you believe MessageLabs, 73% of the 0 billion messages it scanned, in February, were unsolicited bulk emails.  SPAM in other words!

In Australia:

Under the Spam Act 2003 it is illegal to send, or cause to be sent, unsolicited commercial electronic messages. The Act covers email, instant messaging, SMS and MMS (text and [...]

A parent’s guide to web filtering with a Linux box.

Well, I’m not a parent, but I have step-grandchildren.

Is it possible to stop children from accessing inappropriate content on the web? NO!  But you can make it difficult for them.  One leading blacklist has over 1.5 million bad web addresses in it’s database.

One solution would be to setup a web proxy.  A [...]

Surfing the seedy side - Part 2

Back in February 2006 I wrote about Internet Explorer and the index.dat file.

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has a “Delete Browsing History” option which leads to the screen on the right.

“Delete all” (bottom right) does seem to delete the Index.dat file.

Now you can run the “Delete all” command from a command [...]

Surfing the seedy side...

So you’re surfed the seedy side of the ‘net and you want to remove the evidence.

This means you would have done at least the following with Internet Explorer:

Delete Temporary Internet Files Clear History Delete your cookies.

Having done all that, you’re feeling safe from the prying eyes of your parents / significant [...]