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November 2007

October 2007

Best way to protect against identity theft?

I’ve come across these two services, priced similarly, sound similar. ID TheftSmart – The name sounds like they are a smart way to commit identity theft, but I suppose this is not what they mean. Lifelock – Their tag line is “Guarantee your good name” and one of their gimmicks is that the CEO has published his SSN for all the world  to see which is fairly daring and clever. Do you know anything about the pros and cons of services like these, or the specifics of either or both of these?

Magic Firefox Phishing Message

Pleasantly surprised to see this, and I didn’t even know it was checking for me: Firefox phishing error message (not that I would have fallen for it 🙂

Is Facebook the new Google of acquisition-lust?

In the past, clever [tag]entrepreneurs[/tag] (yours truly not included, alas) have built companies and products with a very specific plan or desire or hope or scheme to be acquired by some deep pocketed parent-to-be. Perhaps create a bit of MS Windows Software that looked just like an Office App...

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Steven Pinker on Why We Curse

I know that access to my blog is blocked at least by EMC (heard so from friends there) so I will refrain from quoting this article’s first word: > “*ucking became the subject of congressional debate in 2003, after NBC broadcast the Golden Glo...

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[GEEKY] Weakness in Mac OS X Software Update

Everyone loves how much easier Mac OS X makes it to install software. Well sort of. It’s a place where new users easily get stumped. What the heck are those .dmg files anyway, and where’s the installer? Well this post isn’t about that. After all, it wouldn’t count as [GEEKY] if that’s all it did. Be...

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Hackers and the elections

In New Scientist Tech, an interesting article about hackers and the elections: > “The web may not deserve its reputation as a great democratic tool, security experts say. They predict voters will increasingly be targeted by internet-based dirty tricks campaigns, and that the perpetrators will find it easier to cover their tracks.” (from Hackers could skew US elections”) Read the whole thing here.

Temporary phone numbers and eBay

When you are selling or buying something on the web, say eBay or Craigslist, it always is a question whether to give your ‘real’ phone number out. I just came across Numbr.com (credit Lifehacker, and several others) which appears to have a neat solution to this. Simply, it gets you (for free, but doesn’t everything have to be free nowadays?) a temporary phone number which will anonymously forward calls to your real number. Simple and useful. Check out Numbr.com.

Is Newser this weeks Daylife?

Newser.com is a new news site, with the tag line: “Faster, Smarter News.” Seems like it does some kind of automatic classification of news by one of 9 major topics and organizes it automatically and attractively. It may or may not be trying to personalize what it displays for me. To my eye it is similar to Daylife.com. Remember Daylife? It flashed pretty good a few months ago, but haven’t really heard much more about it. Again I am not sure whether it does any personalization or how that works. As someone who follows these kinds of products pretty closely, I don’t immediately see the key differences. Do you?

September 2007