Nothing Is Guaranteed
By Ian Scott
This past weekend, one of the top web hosting firms, ThePlanet.com had an explosion and fire in a data centre, located in Texas. This affected thousands and thousands of websites as although apparently none of the servers in the facility were damaged, backup power to the facility was not allowed by the fire fighting staff that arrived on the scene.
Topics: Uncategorized |
Is Facebook Breaking Privacy Laws?
By Ian Scott
I just logged off the popular and well known “Social Networking” site, Facebook after playing some Scrabulous moves with some of my friends. There is no doubt that Facebook can be a great tool for keeping in touch with friends and acquaintances and some of the third party applications such as Scrabulous are popular with Facebook users. But there are some who are very concerned about personal privacy that many users may be giving up unknowingly. Read the rest of this entry »
Topics: Personal Security, Privacy |
Have The Terrorists “Won” In The U.K.?
By Ian Scott
If you live in the U.K., and you’ve just downloaded your email, cleared it off the server, read it, then deleted it from your computer, it just might still exist in a database if a new proposal is successful. Read the rest of this entry »
Topics: Privacy |
Could The Incidence Of Spam Decrease?
By Ian Scott
According to “Government Computer News,” the majority of spam email are associated with domains that are registered with 20 domain name registrars - 2.5% of all domain registrars. Read the rest of this entry »
Topics: Spam/Anti-Spam |
Should You Turn Off Your Flash Player? CRITICAL Vulnerability
By Ian Scott
May 30th, 2008
It’s been reported that there is a serious vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player. By visiting a website that has Adobe Flash media and allowing the media to run on your computer with Adobe Flash Player, you are at risk of having your computer compromised if the Flash file has been created to take advantage of the vulnerability. Read the rest of this entry »
Topics: Computer Security |
When Is A Security Officer Not A Security Officer?
By Ian Scott
This post follows right along with my last post critical of Governments attempting to “fix” and make prohibitions and bans.
Presently, in Ontario Canada, it is prohibited to call a security officer a “security officer.” Perhaps some of those bright eyed lawyers that become politicians ought to take a course in Semantics 101 as well as a bit of logic.
Now, the Province of Alberta is following suit with its Bill 10 - The Security Services And Investigators Act. Fines for calling yourself a “security officer” if you are a security officer are proposed to be up to $5,000.00 and/or a year in jail. Got that? A year in jail for calling yourself a security officer instead of using the term “security guard.”
Apparently some bimbos in Ontario and Alberta figure that you might get confused by a security officer calling himself a security officer. You might confuse that with “Police Officer.” I guess to some, the word police just sounds so much similar to security - two syllables in the word “police” being half that of the word security.
I wonder if they’ll be renaming Conservation Officers to Conservation Guards or something.
Topics: Just Plain Silly |
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