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The Rise And Fall Of Browser Home Pages
Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a simpler time when we still said “World Wide Web” and you could hear the capital letters. In...
We Believe In Free Speech Until People Exercise It
We believe in freedom of speech in the US, except when people actually exercise it. Then we discover there are lots of people who should be seen but not heard – and a fair number...
Why Does Chrome Say A Website Is “Not Secure”?
Uh oh! Bruceb News is “not secure”! Alert readers have probably noticed the “not secure” warning on a few other websites, too. Well, actually more than half of the top one...
Amazon And The Infinite Mall
Amazon has become an infinitely large mall full of small shops. More than half of the stuff sold on Amazon worldwide in 2017 came from third-party sellers. More than 2,500,000...
Privacy And Trust Part 5: What Can We Do?
A series of articles about privacy and trust in the era of tech overlords. • Part 1: Data about you is being gathered by the big tech companies (as well as many other...
Privacy And Trust Part 4: Facebook’s Unforgivable Acts
A series of articles about privacy and trust in the era of tech overlords. • Part 1: Data about you is being gathered by the big tech companies (as well as many other...
Privacy And Trust Part 3: What Do They Know And How Do They Know It?
A series of articles about privacy and trust in the era of tech overlords. • Part 1: Data about you is being gathered by the big tech companies (as well as many other...
Privacy And Trust Part 2: No Escape!
A series of articles about privacy and trust in the era of tech overlords. • Part 1: Data about you is being gathered by the big tech companies (as well as many other...
Privacy And Trust Part 1: Data Collection By The Tech Overlords
Tech companies know all your secrets. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are studying your every thought, word, and deed. AI analysis has already given them spooky...
Breaking News: February 18, 2019
I’m trying to get my thoughts in order for a couple of long articles about how to think about privacy in our world of surveillance by giant tech companies. That's not quite ready...
Improve Your Home Wi-Fi By Meshing It Up
Got any Wi-Fi dead spots in your home? You can improve Wi-Fi coverage in your home more easily than ever before. There’s new Wi-Fi technology – “mesh networking” – that...
Microsoft Thinks The Future Belongs To Teams (And It Might Work For You, Too)
Microsoft Teams is an Office 365 service that businesses can use for their employees to chat and collaborate, providing an alternative (and perhaps a replacement) for email...
All Things Must Pass: Say Goodbye To Windows 7
Windows 7 was released almost ten years ago. Those are human years; in technology years that is roughly the length of the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs ruled the earth. There’s no...
Rules For Computer And Online Safety 2019
These are the rules for computer and online safety in 2019. You can download a copy here. Only your vigilance will protect you against bad guys. You will be safe if you are...
How To Pin A Chrome Shortcut To The Taskbar
Google has changed the steps required to pin a website to your Windows 10 taskbar. It’s still possible but it takes a bit of extra effort. There are some websites that fit your...
Security Tip: The Bad Guys Can Spoof The Sender’s Name And Email Address On Malicious Messages
Let’s start with two familiar security principles. • The bad guys can make any name appear as the sender of a malicious email message. • Frequently the email address...