With the 2010 holidays upon us, it’s time to update EFF’s E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy, which summarizes and comments on the privacy-related policies of several e-readers. 2010: E-Book Buyer’s Guide to E-Book Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation The amount of data collected may disturb you.
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Do Body Scanners Make Us Safer — Bruce Schneier
“This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it.” A Waste of Money and Time – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com.
Setting Permissions for a Single Value in the Registry
You can’t. Not programatically, and not thru the GUI. Why? Because the registry, created 20 years ago, sets security descriptors only on keys, not on values. The problem is that the GUI appears to permit this. Here is an example. I am trying to permit users to set the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa FipsAlgorithmPolicy value. This is the view after clicking…
Qualys BrowserCheck
Qualys BrowserCheck is a recommended tool for evaluating your browser’s security.
MS tool to create a bootable USB drive for Win7 install
This is an interesting tool from Microsoft. It takes Win7 media and creates a bootable USB drive. http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool Tags: Win7
Dell ExtPart.exe: Extend Volumes Easily
There are literally half a dozen different ways to extend a volume and here is one more. This Dell utility will expand boot drives on Windows XP/2000/2003 without downtime. VMware Info: Dell ExtPart.exe ; Extend Volumes Easily. I typically use a GParted boot disk for enlarging a drive. An NT admin at work tried ExtPart on…
SCCM 2007 Distribution Groups
One the things that annoys me about distributing software with SCCM 2007 is having to avoid the PXE shares as distribution points. The way around this is to create a distribution point group for all the “normal” DPs. I found a script, DPgroup.vbs, written by Michael Niehaus from Microsoft Consulting Services that almost did what I…
Searching For News Is Riskier Than Searching For Porn, Study Says
Which search is more likely to yield malware: a child’s research for a school current events project or a male’s search for nude photos of Paris Hilton? The answer may surprise you Searching For News Is Riskier Than Searching For Porn, Study Says – content filtering/Attacks – DarkReading.
Too drunk for Facebook? This tool may help
Perhaps I am too old, or just to sober — I think it is ridiculous: “The Social Media Sobriety Test,” a free FireFox plug-in from online-security company Webroot, lets users name sites, like Facebook and Twitter, on which they’d like a little oversight. Too drunk for Facebook? This tool may help – CNN.com.
Zscaler Research Tool to Detect FireSheep
By now you should be aware of FireSheep’s ability to sidejack your “secure” browsing sessions. Zscaler has a detection tool: BlackSheep is a Firefox add-on which warns users if someone is using Firesheep on their network. It also indicates the IP address of the machine that is spying on you. Zscaler Research.