Intuit Alienates Mac Users With QuickBooks Fiasco
I understand that companies lost data, at an important time of the year. And, I saw Intuit, after their first few days of not turning off the update server on their end, implement pretty good customer support. But, there really wasn’t anything they could do to recover data. We [...]
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20+ Windows Vista Features and Services Harvest User Data for Microsoft
Isn’t it wonderful that so many things can spy on you. And, we all “have” to believe that moving to Vista is better for us, keeping us safer from those malicious and malevolent malware programs. Does this remind anyone of the same logic being used by certain federales to convince us that gathering more information [...]
Keeping up with the Jones “The enemy adapts: the state of spam, malware, and phishing scams”
Just as we are supposed to keep our consumer society healthy and flourishing it seems that computer bad stuff is making plenty of money, for someone. And, thinking that a Mac will keep you safe is only going to cover part of staying safe on the Internet, it seems that phishing schemes, those things that look like you have to reconfirm some financial information, are really taking off. [...]
FBI Issues New Rules For Getting Phone Records
And, I thought our FBI played by the rules. But, it seems that they have, and can, just call the phone company and get the records that they want. Sure, they have a letter “template” to follow, paragraph 2 in http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/
03/19/AR2007031901775.html
Yet, the Justice Dept has a different take on what it happening behind the scenes. [...]
All Microsoft updates phone home
I have gotten out of the habit of reading those wonderful privacy statements from software vendors, jaded and cynical from their weaseling out of notifying me of changed by placing the burden upon me to view their changes. And, just by agreeing once, I have agreed to any further changes, even if I don’t know [...]