http://www.jeremyduffy.com Helping to protect families and their loved ones from manipulation and fraud Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:53:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first search engine to ever challenge Google has finally arrived and it's from Microsoft. Once you quit laughing, you should really give it a try. Microsoft's Bing has a lot of potential and several features that are actually better than Google (here and there). If you want to just ... http://www.jeremyduffy.com/compare-bing-to-google 130 million sure sounds like a lot, but keep in mind how many individual transactions companies like 7-eleven have in a single day. Besides wondering why the company security was so weak, I'm more interested in why these companies had so many credit card numbers on file in the first ... http://www.jeremyduffy.com/130-million-credit-and-debit-card-numbers-stolen If you have encrypted files on your computer for privacy or safety reasons, you could face big trouble. In some backwards parts of the world (*cough*, the UK, *cough*), they have actually sentenced people to jailtime for not volunteering their encryption keys/passwords. http://www.jeremyduffy.com/jailtime-for-not-giving-up-your-encryption-keys A New York Times article explains how a woman who couldn't get pregnant more than 10 years ago is still getting advertisements and marketing flyers for baby and child products. This is just another example of data rape at work. http://www.jeremyduffy.com/marketers-torture-barren-woman Wow. Symantec has always been a fairly reputable company that I've had little issue with other than that their security software is historically bloated and a resource hog. But now that they've partnered with Lifelock, I can only assume one of two things: Symantec is willing to throw their customers ... http://www.jeremyduffy.com/symantec-partners-with-lifelock "There's a reason you don't wear your Social Security number across your T-shirt," Albrecht says, "and beaming out your new, national RFID number in a 30-foot radius would be far worse." There are no federal laws against the surreptitious skimming of Americans' RFID numbers, so it won't be long before people ... http://www.jeremyduffy.com/rfid-in-id-cards-still-a-big-problem-and-getting-worse Lifelock was sued by Experian for placing fraud alerts for anyone and everyone when the alerts are supposed to be set by individuals themselves and only when they feel they are at risk for ID theft. While I think the whole fraud alert system is bogus and it doesn't really ... http://www.jeremyduffy.com/lifelock-loses-court-battle-and-two-bullet-points I understand that to describe companies that take data from people against their will is a bit coarse, but it's exactly how I feel. I found out this weekend that a friend of mine had his and his wife's fingerprints taken from them by Seaworld before they were allowed ... http://www.jeremyduffy.com/seaworld-raping-customers While playing online games like World of Warcraft and similar, you find advertisements for people who will get you rare items or in-game money (gold) for a fee. These so-called "gold-farmers" are often employed in different countries like China. Well, China took note and passed a ban on gold farming based ... http://www.jeremyduffy.com/china-bans-gold-farming According to CNET, Firefox 3.5 is twice as fast as Firefox 3 which puts it above most of the browsers on the market (right behind Google's Chrome browser). http://www.jeremyduffy.com/firefox-3-5-released-and-its-fast