CNET
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To a Birthday Greeting
An interesting take on privacy and revealing a piece of information that most people wouldn’t think twice about when signing up for a new online account.
WOAI
The 500 Most Common Passwords
1 in 9 people use at least one password from this list and one out [...]
The Olympian
Watch Out For ID Theft While Online
If you have some gift money burning a hole in your pocket and want to grab online post-Christmas bargains, beware of ID thieves hoping to make you the next victim.
ZDNet
5 Security Precautions To Take For The Holiday Break
The following last-minute precautions should probably be on your To Do [...]
The 73% of Americans who use the web may be interested in reading just what tech-savvy President-elect Obama has planned for the future of the cloud and how it pertains to an all time Passpack favorite – privacy on the web.
Safeguarding Internet user’s right to privacy in Web 2.0 is not
always top of the agenda [...]
Ars Technica
CDT to Obama: Advent of “the Cloud” Makes Privacy Laws Dated
The Center for Democracy and Technology issued a transition outlining measures president-elect Barack Obama should take to restore privacy safeguards… and to promote open discourse and innovation online.
Computer Finance
The value of Your Stolen Identity: About $120
The going rate for a “complete” identity (including name, [...]
In order to understand how shared host-proof hosting works, we need a quick overview of host-proof hosting – what it is and why it has gained such standing in online privacy matters.
The Need For Privacy Online
Whenever you send anything over the internet, your data is exposed. The sites you visit, emails you send, videos you [...]
CEO World Magazine
The Complete Guide to Internet Security and Privacy Issues!
51 fundamental useful links for anyone interested in privacy online and what it means, protecting yourself from identity theft and various other informative channels to security on the web. Certainly is a complete guide.
Market Watch
7 Steps to Worry Free Online Shopping
Here are seven easy steps [...]
FoxNews
Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian Email Scam
An Oregon woman is out $400,000 after falling for a well-known Internet scam. She says she wasn’t an easy mark. Great article on how online fraud can hit anyone.
WashingtonPost
A New Voice in Online Privacy
President-elect Barack Obama has cited privacy as one of the technology issues his administration would [...]
Datamation
Bruce Schneier: Securing Your PC and Your Privacy
Bruce Schneier is a prolific writer on the subjects of cryptology, privacy and security. And this is a fantastic interview where he really clears up some common misconceptions and gets down to the raw facts of security on the web.
Mashable
Is Twitter Ranking Your Popularity or Stealing Your Password?
This [...]
Andrea Vascellari just posted this video of O’Reilly from the Web2.0 conference in Berlin last month. Prompted by our very own Donato, O’Reilly shared his thoughts on the need for privacy in a social web.
O’Reilly’s states he’s in favor of privacy, but if I had to paraphrase, it sounds to me like he’s [...]
This week’s privacy related news items are well worth the read, covering a pretty broad spectrum of issues. The most eye-catching topics were:
Information Week
Firefox Add-On Simulates Great Firewall Of China
Aram Bartholl, Even Roth and Tobias Leingruber’s recent Firefox add-on has been getting lots of buzz, since it lets people get a glimpse of what surfing [...]
Passpack Desktop 2.0 beta3 ready – http://bit.ly/8lkA4M
Just fixed a bug, the People and Messages tabs were freezing. Should work OK now. Thanks to users for the heads up!
Updating servers for the next 20 minutes. Service may be spotty or read only. If you can’t save changes, wait and try again later.
UPDATE: Complete. Thanks for your patience!
Passpack It! button tip: if you can’t train a site, double-click your button and use the Feedback tab. It’ll be queued for fixing.
Ok folks, as promised, it’s almost here. And, as always, we’re letting some lucky people get a sneak peek in exchange for running it through the wringer for us. Get on the tester’s list. Tester list is full, sorry.
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