Category: netiquette
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Why It is Stupid to Buy a SmartTV
There are no regulations concerning what information can & cannot be collected with smart devices, nor how that information is transmitted. This article from the BBC explains how LG’s SmartTV sends the names of his family members in clear text across the internet— something that most people would be uncomfortable having publicly available. Besides selling your private information to any…
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Email Worst Practices
I had to send this “support request” email today because of some seriously bad error in judgement when someone hit the sent button today. Seriously folks, this is 2014… have web companies and their employees learned nothing? Hi, this morning I got an email asking me to click a link embedded in the email to verify…
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Another round of Dropbox Scam Emails Spikes my Blog
I have gotten about 10 or more fake dropbox invites this past few weeks, and a funny thing happened: my blog stats spiked like crazy! So, given that fact, I want to help people by reposting the link to that article that should show up in searches as being a fresher piece of info. Again,…
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Dropbox Invitation Scam Spam Today
A fake email inviting me to dropbox is probably a scam with a virus-ladden punchline
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Tech News Doesn’t Stop When I Have Other Things to Do
Unfortunately, I might have bigger fish than CSS3 to fry soon. In the past week I heard about Google spying on people, even those in private mode (I would link to the video, but Google has apparently buried it since the station reporting it uses Google for their search and video); Facebook arguing in court…
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Technology Failures or “Hammering with a Screwdriver”
The guiding principle of technology is, technology is supposed to make our lives better by alleviating the drudgery from our lives and letting us have more time doing what we enjoy. But there is a dark side to technology, and I am not talking about surveillance this time. This dark side is perpetrated by people…