The more I use MaskMe, the more impressed I am with it. It’s a really good password manager, but it does something that password manager don’t do: Whenever you’re signing up for something that requires your email address, MaskMe will generate a disposable email address which you can use to sign-up for something without giving anyone your real… Read More »
Many of you have Gmail accounts, and because you do, you also have Google Drive, Google Calendar and many other free Google services. And though Google backs up your data seven ways from Sunday, and then backs up the back ups and stores them in several different data centers, you might feel even more comfortable about the safety… Read More »
In this age of mass espionage, when as private citizens our emails, computers, credit cards, and other personal details are being snapped up by nosy government bureaucrats, faster than a whale sifting plankton; governments who use the word “terrorism” to terrorize us all into allowing unrelenting and unjustified snooping, collating and archiving our every email, message, photo,… Read More »
EB is pretty cool,, she knows all the hacker terms like pwned and crack. I don’t know any of them, but if I need to know one she’ll tell me — reluctantly. Because you’re all good people like TC, you probably don’t know what pwned means, so EB told me it’s OK to tell you. Pwned means owned.… Read More »
EB and I have been around and on the Web since the days of Windows 95 when computers had 540 MEGABYTE hard-drives and 16 KILOBYTES of RAM. And Yahoo has been around as long as us or longer, but Yahoo Mail has been something we’ve never used — and never well. From security breech to security breech to… Read More »
Just a few minutes ago, I received one of those scam emails designed to pluck at my heart strings and make me all warm and fuzzy — and abandon my common sense enough that I’d actually give my bank account details to someone I don’t know. Most of the time, I just delete it, but sometimes I can’t… Read More »