Month: May 2010

For most of us, Memorial Day is the unofficial start to summer, or a day off, or a shopping day.  But let’s take a moment…

Your browser is a dirty stinkin rat.  There… I said it.  According to research conducted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), most browsers have telltale…

Satellites get all the glamor with their showy rocket liftoffs and space shuttle missions, but in reality, over 99% of intercontinental data traffic travels via…

Now that Facebook has made their privacy settings just a bit less complex than, say, the US Tax Code or particle physics, now would be…

Over the past few days, I have been on Mount Lemmon in Arizona attending Astronomy Camp.  I’ll give you a couple of seconds to stop…

We security professionals tend to underestimate our own vulnerability to threats like phishing. Here is a really good article by Cory Doctorow, who is most…

As a child of the cold war, nuclear armageddon was one of the major boogeymen which haunted my dreams. Well, yesterday, I got a chance…

Here’s a handy resource for the busyness traveler… the HotelChatter 2010  Hotel WiFi Report lets you know where you can score free WiFi during your…

Now I have two things which I really like about Massachussets – The Friendly Toast in Cambridge (mmm… Caribbean waffles) and their new data protection…