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TrackMeNot

Posted: Saturday, May 26th, 2007 @ 2:33 pm in Security, Software, Web | No Comments »

As everyone and his mother tries to collect as much data as possible about you, you have to think about how much you want to reveal. Do you really want to have your IP saved with everything you searched for on Google? Maybe, but if there was an easy way to obstruct these data collections, […]

Hyperwords

Posted: Friday, October 13th, 2006 @ 1:59 pm in Security, Software | 2 Comments »

Just the Firefox extension I was looking for: Hyperwords. Mark text in your Firefox, hit Enter and…search the marked text on Google. Or Amazon. Or blog it. Or translate it. Dozens of choices. Or double-enter for Google search. Lovely
/edit: This )/§% thing phones home! It has a button to deactivate “sending usage statistics”, […]

Serious Windows Security Threat From .wmf files!

Posted: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 @ 12:09 pm in Security, Software | No Comments »

This maybe a really serious security threat to Windows. Image files in the Windows MetaFile Format (WMF) can contain code! This can be used to start malicious code by simply looking at a picture! So, do not look at pictures in E-Mails ending in .wmf, these mails WILL come! Turn off any feature of your […]