Email and Spam

Abusing “Free”: On Ethics And Deceptive Practices

Posted by on May 27, 2011 at 11:39 am

Have you ever tried to sign up for a “free” webinar only to be bombarded with a five-page interrogation sheet that asks you for all kinds of information that you find yourself saying “I just wanted to watch a presentation”? Did you come across a report or whitepaper you wanted to look at only to [...]

Is Facebook’s Login Approvals a Setback for Mobility?

Posted by on May 24, 2011 at 5:32 am

“Today, we’re announcing our newest opt-in security feature that I’ve worked to build over the past few months: Login Approvals.” With that, Facebook announced Login approvals,  “…a Two Factor Authentication system that requires you to enter a code we send to your mobile phone via text message whenever you log into Facebook from a new [...]

Read Your Yahoo! Emails Without Going Blind!

Posted by on February 25, 2011 at 6:08 pm

If you are like most people, you probably have one or two email accounts with Yahoo!, Windows Live and Google. I applaud these Internet powerhouses for giving us a free email accounts, but does Yahoo! Mail need to make us go blind when reading our emails? I mean, talk about Flash and JavaScript overkill!  The [...]

Online Tracking & Spying is No Joke!

Posted by on August 28, 2010 at 9:50 am

You’ve heard about it and read tons of articles about it, but until you actually experience it, you do not realize how unnerving online spying can be. As a Computer Security Consultant, I spend a lot of time on the internet reading, researching and writing. Naturally, I subscribe to a lot of content providers for [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 is Plain Ugly

Posted by on May 18, 2010 at 1:13 pm

What in the world happened at Microsoft? I don’t care how much they try to spin this, but the interface of Office 2010, especially Outlook 2010 is super ugly! According to a post on the blog of the developers of Office 2010: Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post share via Reddit Share with [...]