privacy
Clearing the Download History in Firefox Automatically
I never quite understood the rationale for the Firefox Download’s pop-up to maintain and display a list of recently downloaded items. By default, a clean installation of Firefox will present a psuedo download manager popup when files are downloaded from a website. The dialog lists the current progress of any active download as well as [...]
Flash Cookies may be Ruining your Privacy Quest
You’ve probably heard at least a few rally cries regarding your privacy on the Internet. It’s quite a popular, if not broad, subject that everyone has an opinion on. While it is quite true that most users would be shocked at just how much information is being tracked and recorded regarding their activities, the reality [...]
Metadata and Privacy in Microsoft Office
Ever heard of the term metadata? Quite literally, metadata is data about data – that is to say, data that typically is used to describe another piece of data. Metadata is typically encapsulated inside the data it is describing. Photo tagging is quite popular and a now accepted way of tagging and organizing your myriad [...]
Let’s See All the Web Searches Done on your PC
Yesterday I discussed a handy utility from the guys at NirSoft that displays the installed codecs on your system and today I have another program from them. Privacy zealots may not want to hear this, but a lot of information can be gleamed from your computer quite quickly. MyLastSearch does just that. It is a [...]
Disabling 3rd Party Cookies in Firefox 3
A website cookie is a unique ID that is generated for each visitor to the website. This is an easy way for a site to track your purchases, pages visited within the site, ads you may have clicked on, or account information. Typically, this is an understood and accepted practice. These cookies are considered 1st [...]
