Privacy Protection
Published November 30th, 2010 | 
Privacy is a very important concern while surfing the Internet – one that is often overlooked. All of your online information is controlled by someone. Every time you log on to a website, whether it be a social networking or internet dating site, you are vulnerable.
Watch how someone can steal personal information. Reveal what is the difference between a computer and Internet Security Security. Learn how to create strong passwords that hackers can not break.
1. What is your privacy? Is the power to control the computer data that you disclose about yourself and control who can access personal information.
2. What is Internet privacy?
Part of the computer privacy. He has the power to control the information you reveal about yourself online, the power to control the Web sites, remote scripting and Web applications can use this personal information and the power to know about these sites, scripts and web applications sufficiently reliable.
3. What is privacy?
Undoubtedly, you have tons of information:
* All web sites you’ve visited
* All documents, folders, pictures, videos, files are opened and created * All emails, names and passwords forum
* All data from credit card and credit you saved
* All calls from Skype to Skype and MSN has cats
* Al-tech, writing or art, you’ve invented
* The purchase of an online business: When you visit the shop
* Is my information shared photos and video, age, hobbies, preferences, even if all the thoughts out there
* In general, all the habits of equipment and things to do All equipment and information they consider private information to websites are private.
4. How to create strong passwords that hackers can not break?
We use passwords for daily access to our files, e-mail accounts, bank accounts, Twitter and Facebook accounts, and hundreds of other services. It ’s very tempting to use a password for all accounts and make quick and easy to remember. This has a devastating impact on our security and privacy. If you think you have something to hide, think again. In most cases, passwords are hacked to use a computer is a spam bot to steal money and personal information, infect your computer from viruses and spyware and so on. Learn to avoid the following low and easy to crack passwords:
* The passwords and default passwords generic. Examples: manager director, guest user, password, password, ILOVEYOU, 2010, etc. These are the first passwords that are judged by software piracy.
* Significant words or names. Examples: sandbox, NY, lion, John, Mary, United States, love, myspouse, dragon, etc., can easily break the dictionary-assisted cracking tools.
* The words or names with numbers. Examples: john123, pass123, 123456, number1, abc123, 654 321, so that it can break easily automated cracking tools.
* My name, date of birth or similar information. They are used like a password, and are easily broken. For example, if the password is an anniversary that few hundreds or thousands (if the year is included) possible combinations of passwords are very weak. Learn how to create a random password of these rules:
* Select "random" letters and numbers. It seems random, but only at first sight. Numerous studies have shown that humans are not very good at random – I always try to spread things too uniform, which is not random behavior.
* Keyboard "Random" in the dark. This is slightly better than chance, but still pretty random.
* Random password generators online. Much better than the two previous options, but there are two major drawbacks. First, it is possible that the passwords generated can be stored on a malicious website, or someone can listen on your connection and intercept passwords generated. Another major problem is the quality of random number generators, which are often not up to it. Many of them were taken innocently and gives much less than the combinations are theoretically possible (no more than a few tens or hundreds of millions of which were in no way a password – see box above paragraph).
* Special programs for generating random passwords. Best choice, as duly signed and reliable.
Scrubs
Published November 5th, 2010 | I was channel-surfing the other night and came across that sitcom, Scrubs, the episode where traded-in his scrubs for a lab coat. It got me thinking about why doctors wear scrubs to begin with (or lab coats for that matter).
After a fairly good night’s sleep and a spot of breakfast, I tackled the job of answering that question. I was aware that the name for scrubs is derived from the phrase “scrubbing in”, be didn’t know when the practice of wearing scrubs became common. It seems that doctors didn’t always wear scrubs. Until the 20th century, doctors wore regular clothes. Subsequent advances in antiseptic techniques led doctors to wear white scrubs in operating rooms. But, since white was hard on the eyes and darker colors reminded people of blood, the practice of wearing green scrubs emerged. Eventually, doctors and nurses alike started wearing scrubs for comfort and cleanliness. Many hospitals even use a color-coding system similar to Star Trek to differentiate between departments.
Lit Fun #7: The Equestrian
Published September 24th, 2010 | My niece, who has a horse show tomorrow, has been riding horses for years. She’s been riding for almost ten years, I think. She’s seventeen now, almost eighteen.
Me, I’ve never been into horses. Rode a couple of ponies when I was very small and once rode an elephant (true story), but, unlike my niece, I’m not what you’d call an equestrian.
Equestrian . . . there’s an interesting word. The word is Latin in origin. Dates back to the first century of the Roman Republic if I remember my 9th grade World History correctly. Roman cavalry officers. Somewhere along the line the definition changed from a specific reference to a class of Roman aristocrat to a broader meaning — one who possesses the skill of horsemanship.
