Britain may be on the verge of taking a further step into the ‘Surveillance Society’. Already Britain is awash with surveillance cameras and there is the beginnings of a DNA data base. Now there is consideration of a data base for all telephone calls and emails. For the sake of security, it […]
What day is it today? - I have been caught up in a Microsoft torment that sadly includes the word “format”. It was to the point where the solutions needed solutions. To commiserate, some friends have been sending an old (2003) Bill Gates rant wherein he sums up a Windows experience […]
Your email is private, even at work. The appeals court has ruled that, under certain circumstances, email is indeed private:
“…Under Wednesday’s ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, employers that contract an outside business to transmit text messages can’t read them unless the worker agrees.”
link: SF court protects privacy of work […]
The news is dominated with heartbreaking disasters. There are natural disasters nationally and internationally; and the newscasts document the rising death tolls in horrid numbers. These tragedies elicit our want to contribute and to help. Unfortunately, hackers know that this is a time when the general public is most susceptible to being […]
The Virginia Supreme Court has upheld the first felony conviction for spam email. Spam is not protected as a constitutional right to free speech. The spammer was convicted to a nine year prison sentence.
“…Prosecutors presented evidence of 53,000 illegal e-mails Jaynes sent over three days in July 2003. But authorities believe […]
The people who spam and phish for data must be celebrating. There is good news for Massachusetts tax payers:
“The Internal Revenue Service is putting out an all-points bulletin for Massachusetts tax payers who are collectively owed $3 million in refunds - or an average of more than $1,000 each.”
link: IRS wants to refund […]
