I just heard an ad on my local radio station about MedsFile.com....Knowing what's going on out there on the Web combined with the silly and careless Web application vulnerabilities I see in my work I cringed when I heard about what this company does. They store all of your medical records online in one convenient location. It's actually a great idea but there's certainly some room for abuse.I'm not picking ...
Continue Reading...I was just thinking about all the passwords our Web browser(s) want save for us for the sake of convenience. It's a great feature that I know I couldn't live without. I know many other people do it too. If you're one of them, be very, very careful leaving your computer screen unlocked when you leave your desk - especially for lunch, for a meeting, or for the day. What ...
Continue Reading...Here's an interesting request by privacy and consumer groups to strong arm Google into posting its privacy policy on its home page. Apparently it's the law in California, but as we see day in and day out (especially in the state of California!) the rule of law doesn't really mean that much. It's majority - I mean mob - rule now in what used to be our Constitutional Republic.I don't ...
Continue Reading...Talk about the ultimate in privacy invasion. Every search engine query we make - be it business or personal - is tracked. I figured this was happening...That's what computers do anyway, right? It's just scary to think about it especially when you see the hard facts.Google retains their queries for 18 months - something I wasn't aware of. I know if we're using someone else's systems, they are their systems, ...
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