Posts Tagged ‘google’
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
I’m not sure if I agree with this or not, but the author definitely raises some interesting points …
This week, Google was found out to have been bypassing privacy settings in both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari web browsers, as Martin reported here. In a statement on their blog, the Corporate Vice-President of IE blogged “IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site’s use does not include tracking the user. Google’s P3P policy causes Internet Explorer to accept Google’s cookies even though the policy does not state Google’s intent.”
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Tags: cookies, facebook, google, microsoft, privacy, security
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Flash users should probably check this out; it looks like a fairly important security update …
Adobe has released a new security update for Flash Player that fixes several critical security vulnerabilities in the product. The vulnerabilities affect all platforms Flash Player is available on. Affected software versions are Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 and earlier for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, as well as Adobe Flash Player 11.1.112.61 and earlier versions for Android 4.x, and Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.5 and earlier versions for Android 3.x and 2.x.
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Tags: adobe, android, chrome, flash, google, security
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Here’s an interesting trick that seems like it would come in handy in any application where security was a concern …
A Single-Site browser serves a very specific purpose. You use it to access one, and sometimes a handful, of websites and services on the Internet. This can be financial sites, your email accounts or other sites with personal information like a medical related sites. The basic idea is to block access to all other sites to protect the account and information from certain attack forms like cross site scripting or clickjacking.
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Tags: chrome, firefox, google, mozilla, security
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Scanning protection sounds helpful … but I think I’d disable the prerendering feature myself …
Google has just released an update for the Chrome browser’s stable branch that fixes several security vulnerabilities and adds several new features to the browser. The two most prominent feature additions in Chrome 17 are Omnibox Prerendering and Download Scanning.
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Tags: cache, chrome, exe, google, msi, Prerendering, Scanning Protection
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Although the convenience of an online storage solution is kind of tempting, you could buy a pretty decent external hard drive for about the same price as a one year subscription to Google’s 400 GB storage option.
Rumors of Google Drive, or GDrive as it was named in the beginning, started to emerge at around the same time that the popular file synchronization and hosting service Dropbox opened its doors to the public (that was 2007). All went quiet shortly thereafter and it appeared as if the project had been canceled by Google.
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Tags: android, dropbox, google, Google Drive, windows
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
It’s kind of cool that Google is at least offering to pay people for this information … but also kind of sad to watch the internet slowly morph into a gigantic market research tool.
As soon as you start using the Internet, your actions are tracked by specialized companies. This not only includes web server logs but also third party tracking through advertisement, social networking scripts and other third party scripts.
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Tags: browsing habits, google, internet usage, market research, privacy
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Back in the dial-up days, this sort of thing used to be pretty common … but apparently cache browsers can still come in handy in the wireless age.
When you search Google you always have the option to open a linked website directly, or to open a cached page of the selected page instead. Opening the cached version may help you if the website that you want to open is not available temporarily or permanently.
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Tags: cache browser, firefox, google, greasemonkey, userscript
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Why is it that so many social media sites, online email sites and blog sites seem to be changing their policies lately? Are they just bored, or is this a new fad?
Users of Google’s blog hosting service Blogger may notice quite a significant change in the coming weeks. Instead of being able to access blogs hosted on Blogger directly, they may now be redirected to a country specific domain. A user visiting a blog from Australia for instance will be redirected to blogspot.com.au automatically whenever a blogspot blog is accessed.
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Tags: Blogger, Blogspot, country specific domain, google
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
It always creeps me out when an advertiser seems to know a little bit too much about me … stuff like that usually sends me running in the opposite direction.
Last week Google announced changes to its privacy policy that, on the face of it seem perfectly reasonable. In essence they want to treat all the different Google services you use as a single big account and share the data. What this ultimately means though is that the company will know absolutely huge volumes of information about you.
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Tags: bing, google, hotmail, microsoft, privacy
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Chrome Comment Save Keeps a History of All Your Web Comments
Monday, February 13th, 2012I’m more interested in an extension that would help me to forget some of the comments I’ve made in the past …
Tags: chrome, Comment Save, comments, google, history
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