Welcome back!Looks like the RIAA is going to take another loss because of it’s tactics. Recently some students at North Carolina State brought to the attention of the court the illegal nature of the investigations the RIAA has been conducting through unlicensed investigators (can you say mediasentry scandal?)
Now, the judge who had been just [...]
Recently, as part of my never ending effort to keep from falling behind on things technical, I find that the Cat5e cables that I’ve been using for so long are no longer the standard and haven’t been for quite a while now.
AVG’s version 8 of their software has a new “feature” called Linkscanner. It sounds like a nice idea on paper but in reality it’s been a nightmare for webmasters because it’s requesting the pages that get listed in search engine results in order to scan them and warn the user in the event of a page loaded with malware. Thing is, up until a recent software update, it was doing this for every link that appeared on a search engine result page.
It makes you wonder how much privacy you really have. Is there a hidden transmitter in your television? How easy is it for your phone or email conversations to be snooped?
