Category Archives: Security

Talk about a stretch of the imagination

May 8, 2008 – 3:24 pm

We all know how the movie industry and the music industry love nothing better than to make people who for whatever reason pirate music and movies out to be the worst thing since Atilla the Hun. Sure there might be a small section who do pirate digital goods for immense profit but the reality [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

How stupid does DHS think bad guys are?

May 1, 2008 – 12:47 pm

In a story the crew of Elite Tech News talked about last week EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) this week is calling for Congressional hearings on the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to search and seize electronic devices at American borders. Cute - but really does anyone believe that other than ordinary people coming home [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Are web backup sites legally protected?

April 23, 2008 – 11:45 am

For those of you not following this it started when EMI sued MP3Tunes.com for the contents of the online storage that the site offered it users to store their MP3 music files. Well according to a post on TechWag MP3Tunes.com has prevailed in the case which means that some 300 TB of files, users [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

Considerations in moving to web mail

April 21, 2008 – 2:46 pm

As I continue in consolidating a bunch of stuff in order to make my daily web life a little easier to navigate through one of the things I have been considering the last couple of days involved totally rethinking my stance on web mail apps. I have stated before that I don’t like them [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Google, Internet, Site News |

Shorter lines in the blink of an eye

April 20, 2008 – 1:56 pm

Stowe Boyd has a post today extolling the virtues of the Clear program for airports that enables you to literally go through the airplane boarding process with out any wait or hassle as long as your biometric information on file matches up with the Clear Smartcard that you are issued. That is if you have [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Would you quit pickpocketing my wallet

April 5, 2008 – 8:49 pm

The other day I made note in a post about a new pricing policy being instituted by Sunbelt Software for their security related products for the home consumer market. In short what they have decided to do is make all their consumer product licenses unlimited in nature - meaning you buy one license and you [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Finally some realistic pricing for security software

April 1, 2008 – 5:56 pm

Anti-virus and spyware companies had to be among the first software companies to realize that a cash cow the whole idea of subscriptions on top of already expensive software. In an industry that is built on exasperating fears of infected machines this constant price gouging is one of the reason in my opinion why [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Software |

Concise and perfectly stated

February 10, 2008 – 12:58 pm

A good friend of mine who I have known for many years just posted what I consider to be one of the best explanations of what we expect privacy to be in this new day of social networks and government agencies poking their noses where they don’t belong.
Papa’s post is a short one so [...]

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