How you actually should respond to that “183 million credentials leak”
What a recent Forbes article got wrong and what it should have told you instead.
Why websites shouldn’t indiscriminately block VPN users
I convinced a state senator that government websites indiscriminately blocking VPN users is bad. Here’s the case I made, which you can use yourself to keep fighting the good fight.
Yet another Synology Drive Client for Linux data-loss bug
If you create a directory on one client and then put files in that directory on another client, those files won’t be synchronized to your NAS. This is bad. The only workaround is to not use the new version of the client.
Cursed motorcycle trip to Philadelphia
A dead battery, an initially misunderstood jump-start process, a shady towing company, and some poor decisions made this trip challenging and taught me a number of important lessons.
Comics Aggregator: GoComics.com was broken, is now fixed
Overnight last night, GoComics.com was modified to deter bots, along with some other changes which broke the Comics Aggregator‘s ability to fetch comics from there.
How to stop Google from invading your privacy and others’ when you share links
“share.google” links are evil. Here’s how to get Google to stop spitting them at you.
About that time my motorcycle chain derailed while I was riding the bike
I’m fine, my bike is fine, and the bike and I got home in one piece thanks to the kindness of my guardian angel Frank.
Can’t log into Costco website, their technical support is useless
I spent nearly four hours of my time proving this isn’t my fault. I’m still doubtful that Costco will do anything to resolve the problem.
Another credit reporting agency breach, another terrible breach notification letter
TransUnion is bad at security and bad at handling security breaches and none of this is going to get better until we have a real federal data privacy law with meaningful penalties for companies which leak people’s data.
Thoughts on the proposed Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, S.2608
The proposed law is a good start but it has problems that should be fixed before it is enacted. Here are some of them.