Archives for the 'Net Safety' Category
To moderate or not to moderate update [Hack Your Day]
I wrote a post about two weeks ago about scraper sites which index my content automatically and add it to their sites. You can read all about my comments in the post because there are positive sides to this as well, but in the end I decided that it was not a good idea at [...]
Password strength checker [Hack Your Day]
If you want a fun and visual way to check your passwords, take a look at the passwordmeter webpage. It contains a password checker which shows you the strength of your password and breaks it down into many factors, showing their relative weight in the equation and how well you do in each.
It adds points [...]
To moderate or not to moderate [Hack Your Day]
I usually have pretty set rules set up for myself on moderating comments. I hate spam and I want to keep my blog 100% free of it. I have come across a problem though, like in every aspect of life there are gray areas, spam is no exception.
I don’t know how many you guys know, [...]
Stop IM spam in Pidgin [Hack Your Day]
I just started using Pidgin as my client and decided to get in touch with all my readers who want to talk to me, so I have also been advertising my IM handles openly. I didn’t know this kind of spam existed, as Mark from Make Use Of says, this means dozens of spam messages [...]
Spam I can live with [Hack Your Day]
I knew it existed, but I was only faced with it truly when I started writing my blog. There is a kind of spam that I think is a bit annoying, but acceptable. These are the people who own a company or web service, and go around on people’s blogs, writing quasi-useful comments with their [...]
Password Generator 2008 - Get it free quickly! [Hack Your Day]
Giveawayoftheday is offering Password Generator 2008 for free for another 6 hours, so hurry up and grab a copy if you want to have some security.
Usernames and passwords are the place where internet security could really be improved. One commenter sparked a post, Information security on the internet, and something I probably left out, or [...]