A non tracking DNS

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Mark Urbin

The nice folks at Cloudflare have put a non-tracking DNS in place for free use.  If you were not aware that most ISPs will sell your browsing history, for “marketing purposes”, you should be.

They make a nice, easy to use App for IOS devices.

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Facebook should be no surprise to anyone…

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Mark Urbin

Seriously, if you hadn’t figured out long ago that you were the product Facebook was selling, you were not paying very much attention.

Remember all those pictures you uploaded to Facebook.  If you read the terms of service, you will find that Facebook reserves the right to do anything they want with them, including using them advertising.

Or collect biometric data from them.

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Travel Tip

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Mark Urbin

I recently saw a list of travel trips for nerds.  One was that TVs in hotels have USB ports that are typically powered ports, so you can use them to charge your various devices.

Good tip. I would still advise using a USB condom, because like most devices in the IoT world, most Internet capable TVs  lack even basic Cyber Security features.

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