A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!I just saw something on the alt.privacy newsgroup that has managed to confirm once again that most people don’t have a clue when it comes to protecting their anonymity.
The writer was talking about how they had tested a “tips” box near the bottom of the page that has the heading: “SEND NEWS TIPS TO [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I was browsing through the search logs this morning and noticed that there were several searches with the query: “how to change home page on firefox” , “change firefox homepage” and a few others related so I thought I’d write up a quickie tutorial showing how to do it.
It’s actually a [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads By now I think that probably most people online these days knows about cookies. That they’re little text files that allows a website to store up to 4k of information on your computer. They allow websites to recognize you when you come back, remember your login information and [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads According to a recent Slashdot article it very well might be. Ubuntu recently released a new extension to Firefox alpha 3 called “Multisearch”.
The first thing that I don’t like about it is that it installs automatically without any warning about potential privacy problems. For me that’s a deal-breaker all [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads If you have applied the “Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1″ update, you may be surprised (and justifiably pissed) to find out that this update included a new extension being very quietly added to Firefox without your knowledge.
It’s called the “Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce) Firefox Extension” and according to [...]