Public Computer Security Misperceptions Abound

Gmail Google Phishing Message Generally, I try to avoid giving out unsolicited advice, but, sometimes, will reflexively do so, especially for a friend who I know encountered some kind of "Windows" security issue. Well, a friend posted up a gmail message they had received with concern to make their circle of friends aware of. It is of the email 'click-bait' variety.  They all work the same on legacy Windows (x86) from present 8.1 back to...

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Terminology: The Terminal Emulator With Bling

Image credit: Wikimedia.org If memory serves, it was +Greg Kroah-Hartman who last December enthused on Google Plus about Terminology, the terminal emulator component of Enlightenment.  It was just released at version 0.4.0 by one very talented, industrious Samsung developer, Daniel Juyung Seo. I took a look at it, put it away and all was forgotten.  The other day, I was looking around for new software and decided to revisit...

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Bodhi Linux Developer Retires

( Image Credit: Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam ) The solo developer of Bodhi Linux has announced his retirement. I sincerely wish +Jeff Hoogland  well.  It's not difficult to appreciate that putting together a truly polished Linux Distro is hard, but by one developer, it seems almost an impossible task.   One Mr. Hoogland set out to do so and I will say that by all accounts he has been a success.  Bodhi Linux...

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RetroShare: An Essential Privacy Tool Introduction

RetroShare shown running on my Fedora 20 LXDE Desktop Maybe you feel defeated?  You have that sense of helplessness? Yout think, "Don't fight it.  We can't win against them.  There is no privacy on the Internet." Give up? No.  Don't give up.  Fight back.  There is an easy tool, now, today, at your disposal, which as far as I am concerned is not difficult to install and immediately use that will assure 100% privacy...

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CryptoWall RansomWare: The Psychology of Mass Insanity

(Image Credit: Geek.com) Albert Einstein once defined insanity as this, "Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results." Are you using Windows Legacy (x86) 8.1 and older? If you answered yes, then, I am afraid you are technically insane. ;) Oh.  That Anti-Virus software subscription tool you so diligently run?  It is money and time wasted.  The types of attacks now occurring simply fly 'below the...

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