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How LastPass protects your data

I’ve seen several people recently discussing how LastPass protects your LastPass master password and your encrypted site password data (a.k.a., your vault). If what some of those people were saying were true, then LastPass wouldn’t be as secure as I thought it was. This gave me pause, since I use LastPass to store all my… Read More »

Category: Computer Security Computers Internet Web Tags: Heartbleed, LastPass

Why you still shouldn’t use Vanguard Realty

For many years, I’ve been working assiduously to rid my (postal) mailbox of junk mail. The ongoing damage to the environment caused by the many tons of junk mail sent every day to people who don’t even bother to look at it is offensive, and want nothing to do with it. I wrote back in… Read More »

Category: Boston Consumer activism Junk mail Tags: Vanguard Realty

We need a “/heartbleed.txt” standard, and we need it ASAP

Those of us who help create and maintain “the internet” that everyone benefits from are now tasked with helping the world recover with one of the biggest, if not the biggest, security holes in the history of the internet. To be certain they aren’t vulnerable, users need to change their passwords at every site that… Read More »

Category: Computer Security Computers Internet Web Tags: Heartbleed

How not to run a computer security company

Don’t use a self-signed SSL certificate for your web site. Way to go, Incapsula!

Category: Computer Security Computers Internet Tags: Incapsula

An open letter to the owner of The Chubby Chickpea Food Truck

Dear Avi, “You know what the great thing is about owning your own business? You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to.” That’s what you told me this morning when your food truck arrived 10 minutes past its scheduled opening time and still hadn’t opened 10 minutes after that. That’s what you told… Read More »

Category: Boston Consumer activism Tags: Avi Shemtov, Chubby Chickpea

TURN OFF two-factor authentication before restoring an Android phone

Android phones have this awesome feature whereby your list of installed applications, your application settings, your Wi-Fi settings, etc., are backed up automatically inside your Google account, such that when you set up a new phone and link it to your Google account during the initial setup, all that stuff gets restored automatically, making for… Read More »

Category: Computers Mobile Computing

A journey of searching and renewal

Today, I embarked upon a magical journey, a journey of discovery, a journey of oneness with the environment. In a word, a journey of recycling. For several years, I’ve been accumulating junk of various sorts on a shelf under my workbench with the intention of eventually figuring out how to dispose of it in an… Read More »

Category: Boston Computers Mobile Computing Tags: Best Buy, environmentalism, Home Depot, recycling

Globe Direct: Hey Boston, here’s 34 tons of trash per week on us!

What would you say if I told you that there’s a Boston business that adds more than 34 tons per week of trash to the City of Boston’s waste stream*, trash that the residents of Boston end up paying to dispose of to the tune of >$100,000 per year**? What would you say if I… Read More »

Category: Boston Consumer activism Journalism Tags: Boston Globe, Globe Direct, RedPlum

Boston Herald rude sales people won’t leave us alone

To: Boston Herald home delivery department Subject: Rude sales call from Boston Herald My wife and I (you can find us in your records under our home phone number [elided]) are no longer Boston Herald subscribers. We currently have no desire to resume our subscription. Since we canceled our subscription, your sales department has called… Read More »

Category: Boston Consumer activism Journalism Tags: Boston Herald

My email identity thief is at it again

See my previous articles on this topic. The email identity thief who has been using my email address on-line for years, who apparently goes by the name Diallo Mamadou Oury in real life, has just posted this inexplicable comment on my blog. I posted a response, but I somehow doubt he’ll read or respond to… Read More »

Category: Computer Security Computers email Internet Tags: Diallo Mamadou Oury, email identity thief
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