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Leaving Facebook: Step #2 Deactivate Account

24, May 2010

Following Jason Calacanis’ call to action, I am deactivating my Facebook account tonight (with plans to delete it later on). So far: I’ve made most of my information private, including photos I’ve run a backup using backupify I have just visited to deactivate my Facebook account facebook.com/deactivate.php Deactivate puts your account into a dormant state [...]

iPhone Jailbreak Software Could Steal Your Passwords

19, Sep 2009

it’s never a good idea to download applications and games from P2P filesharing websites because they are often put out there to “lure” people into downloading them so they can actually collect your personal information.

How Neighbors Punk Your Open WiFi

13, Aug 2009

My client had the unpleasant surprise to understand that her wireless connection had been open, for 2 years! Learn how to protect your WiFi connection with WPA encryption, a router and passwords

Network Solutions Screws 573,000 Credit Card Customers On Ecommerce Security

4, Aug 2009

Folks, I am happy to announce the first guest post on ButYoureAGirl.com! @lhgreene

Will TSA Snatch My Electric Toothbrush?

5, Jun 2009

photo credit: yoppy I’m heading to WordCamp Chicago today and mentioned on Twitter that I wasn’t bringing my electric toothbrush.  I didn’t want the hassle of TSA making up “rules” on the spot and then telling me I’d have to toss my toothbrush.  @swirlspice suggested I try and get it through TSA so today I will [...]

Where Do We Go From Here Norm?

29, Mar 2009

I’ve decided to write a summary to give you my perspective two months after putting up the Norm Coleman database blog post. I created the Norm Coleman blog post to answer the questions I began to receive the night this all happened. I started ButYoureAGirl.com to help people understand technology. I like to document things [...]

Interview on Rachel Maddow Show for Norm Coleman Database

14, Mar 2009

3/13/2009 MSNBC Interview with Rachel Maddow Friday evening! This is tied to my original post about Norm Coleman’s website being insecure.

Hey Bob, I've Got Something For You…Re: Norm Coleman Database

13, Mar 2009

This is a reading of a comment left on my blog post about Norm Coleman’s Website Database Leak. Update 1: Enelson has posted an article expanding on this comment: Norm Coleman and Identity Theft Gate: Is Your Online Donation to Norm Coleman Safe? Update 2: Edited a bit of grammar at request of poster (homonyms, [...]

Who is Searching Google for Norm Coleman's Database?

11, Mar 2009

I had a few hundred visitors by 10am so I decided to create a list of the vistors to my blog post on the Norm Coleman Database Leak. For my own safety and to show how EASY it is to track visitors so if my little blog can handle 1,000 visitors in 24 hours, Norm’s [...]

Norm Coleman Website Crash Exposes Database and Email Lists

28, Jan 2009

What’s worse than losing a Minnesota Sentate race? Losing your website’s entire database, that’s what. I found a database with 205mb worth of information is available from Norm Coleman’s website. Wowza. I sure hope there isn’t financial information in that database.

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