Who Are The People Against Internet Freedom? The Internet, even though it’s something most of us have accepted as part of our lives, is still relatively young. Compared to other information mediums like newspapers and even TV, it’s still just a baby, and as such, it’s going to have some growing pains. One of the biggest growing pains… Read More »
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Be careful what you search for… I guess I never thought I’d see the day when I had to give a lot of thought before doing research for an article for our InfoAve Premium newsletter. Now I realize that I have probably put Cloudeight on the NSA’s observation list simply because I wrote about CyberGhost and the Tor… Read More »
We Told You a Decade Ago Not to Trust Truste We have been warning people about Truste for years. In fact, in 2011 we wrote an article about WOT (Web of Trust) criticizing their adoption of the pay-to-play methodology where you can get a badge of trust for your business or Web site as long as you pay… Read More »
A New Villain In Town His name is Poweliks (or her name is Poweliks, if you prefer). And while Poweliks has been around since last summer we hadn’t seen any cases of it, until this week when we saw three in one day. Now the reason that Poweliks deserves mention here (there are always dozens of new black… Read More »
MOST NOW FEAR THEIR LIVES ARE OPEN BOOK For a long time, people thought: ‘Well, I have nothing to hide,’ one expert said. But we do have things we want to hide, she said, whether it’s credit card information or info about our families SAN FRANCISCO – Americans overwhelmingly think they’ve lost control of how their personal information… Read More »