Heres a good step by step article from the Wall Street Journal online about how to protect your privacy and browsing habits online. This should be de riguer amongst todays surfers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383203092034876.html
I’m all for allow information to be freely available, but as to whether peoples habits should be accounted for?
Thats a different story. So why dont you practice being a Cookie Monster, and clear your cookies and cache after each session. Typing in your passwords each time is a small price to pay in lieu of preventing big brother from looking over your virtual shoulder….and like Cory Doctorow espouses, they definitely do.
btw, STILL no Palm Pre in sight, in Singapore. I’ve given up. Iphone4, anyone? (Chorus of Yes’s abound…)
The World is being Rebooted
This world has gone through a few operating systems, ages and eras (errors). From the prehistoric to the analogue, and the Obama from the Bush (speaking of errors). From the modern to the postmodern, to the great era that we consumers know as the internet wars ie TODAY.
This world is in reboot. New ways of packaging, viewing and controlling information. We wiggle, the information on the screen dances. We wave, the characters prance.
Some indicators of the reboot:
As THUNDERBIRDS would state it, eyes blazing and pool retracting, we are definitely GO.
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