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ACLU shares donor data with Facebook!

Posted on April 16, 2021 By ninjatechnyc
ACLU shares donor data with Facebook!

I’m surprised this story did not get more traction.  It appears ACLU gives it’s donor data to Facebook so that Facebook could target more users that are like the existing donors. I mean it makes sense from a marketing perspective. I’ve given to ACLU…and I don’t like Facebook. I wish I had known… Details: In the…

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opinion, privacy, security

Facebook hack…again

Posted on April 3, 2021 By ninjatechnyc

According to Business Insider, looks like 533 MILLION users from about 106 countries had their personal data from 2019 posted onto the dark web. The data was scraped from Facebook before they applied a security patch back in 2019. The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including…

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opinion, privacy, security

Batch Copy Logs From Server At Multiple Intervals Using Task Scheduler

Posted on June 12, 2015 By ninjatechnyc

I came across a situation where a vendor wanted logs files from a server at around 2am in the morning to troubleshoot why an application wasn’t sending a specific email at that time. Problem was, I wasn’t planning on being up at that early in the morning to grab log files and I didn’t know…

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opinion, tech tips, windows

Internet Explorer 8 – Does Not Remember Password

Posted on June 7, 2012 By ninjatechnyc

Problem: Internet Explorer 8 won’t remember the user’s password information for a website Symptoms: User starts IE8, types in “salesforce” in the address bar, which automatically brings him to to Salesforce.com. He clicks on the Login link, enters his Username and Password, checks off the box that says “Remember User Name”, and goes about his…

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opinion, privacy, security, windows

Can Authorities Force You to Give Up Laptop Password?

Posted on January 5, 2012 By ninjatechnyc

News to watch – Can you be compelled by authorities to give up your encryption keys, passphrases, or passwords? Federal prosecutors want a judge to order a Colorado woman to provide the password to decrypt her laptop, which the government seized with a search warrant. With backup from digital rights groups, the woman is fighting…

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cnet – Verizon Wireless: Yep, that’ll be $2 to pay your bill online

Posted on December 29, 2011 By ninjatechnyc

There’s news out that Verizon Wireless wants to charge me $2 every time I pay my bill online using the single pay option. That means, when I get my bill, I’ll be charged a “convienence fee” of $2 for going online and paying on their website. However’ if I pay by check, through the mail,…

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opinion, tech

Spyware On Every Android (And Possibly Blackberry) Phone Out There

Posted on November 30, 2011 By ninjatechnyc

Per Gizmodo – Spyware on every Android (and possibly Blackberry and Nokia) phone out there… If you have any decently modern Android phone, everything you do is being recorded by hidden software lurking inside… Carrier IQ’s software is installed in your phone at the deepest level. You don’t know it’s there. You are never warned…

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opinion, privacy, security

Netflix Changing DVD Service Name To “Qwikster”?

Posted on September 19, 2011 By ninjatechnyc

Update: Netflix does a rewind! Abandons the Qwikster plan… Got an email from, Netflix. They’re changing their DVD service name to “Qwikster”? Really? But the same lousy pricing? Here’s the email: Dear xxxx, I messed up. I owe you an explanation. It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members…

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laugh, opinion, tech tips, Uncategorized

500 Internal Server Error

Posted on April 30, 2011 By ninjatechnyc 2 Comments on 500 Internal Server Error

Got a personal website hosted on Godaddy that all of a sudden started giving me 500 Internal Server Error: I have the domain and hosting at Godaddy – Economy Linux hosting. I use WordPress as the front end. Not the WordPress setup they offer, but I uploaded my own WordPress files, setup a MySQL db,…

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opinion, tech tips

HuffPost – Texas Exposes Private Records: State Accidentally Releases 3.5 Million Personal Records

Posted on April 11, 2011 By ninjatechnyc

Another case for making it mandatory to have peoples personal info stored in an encrypted database: The personal records of some 3.5 million Texans were inadvertently exposed after they were placed on a state computer server that was accessible to the public for about a year, state officials said on Monday. State Comptroller Susan Combs…

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opinion, privacy, security, Uncategorized

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