How to Clean Your Apps Permissions Easily

Many of us might have authorized permissions for various free apps to access our private information in our online accounts, such as in Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Yahoo, LinkedIn, DropBox, Instagram, Flickr, etc. As matter as fact, it has become common that not all those apps were useful. However, we just left them there, keep being authorized to get our private data as much as they want

Wanna recheck and clean those permission? Try visiting mypermissions.org. They have provided useful links for you.

How to Download Facebook Video from Google Chrome

Sometimes you may want to keep the videos shared in some friend’s Facebook. Unfortunately, Facebook doesn’t provide any simple button or hyperlink to download its videos. There are some freewares or browser add-ons/extensions offering simple ways to download videos from Facebook, but I’m not discussing about them as you can easily Google it

For you who wants to download Facebook Videos in a “geeky way“, here you go . Basically you must know that every single online shared video you watch (in YouTube, Facebook, etc.) has actually been downloaded first by your browser (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.) to its cache. So if you want to keep the video to be able to watch it later without going online, you simply have to copy or move it from the cache directory.

Here are the steps, in details, using Google Chrome browser in Microsoft Windows 7 operating system (OS):

Book: Strategic Cyber Security

 

Knowing from a mailing list I’m following, this book’s content looks good. Here’s what the CCDCOE said about it:

The book argues that computer security has evolved from a technical discipline to a strategic 
concept. The world’s growing dependence on a powerful but vulnerable Internet – combined 
with the disruptive capabilities of cyber attackers – now threatens national and international 
security.

Strategic challenges require strategic solutions. The author examines four nation-state approaches to cyber attack mitigation:
•  Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
•  Sun Tzu’s Art of War
•  Cyber attack deterrence
•  Cyber arms control

The World’s Most Blocked Websites

OpenDNS, one of the most popular DNS services on the Internet, is frequently used by parents and organizations to block websites that they think are inappropriate for children or may hamper productivity at the workplace.

OpenDNS, which claims to handle DNS requests for 1% of Internet users worldwide, has released a report detailing a list of top 10 websites that are most frequently blocked by home users and business users.

The list includes social sites (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter) and adult websites (Redtube, Pornhub and Playboy) as usual but the presence of two major advertising networks on that list suggests people do have their share of privacy concerns.

Here’s the complete list

Albert Einstein and Arthur Eddington

Have you seen the movie “Einstein and Eddington“? It’s a good movie about the beauty of science. It tells us how and when exactly Albert Einstein became famous..

Many of us have no idea who Arthur Eddington is. Yes, he was a scientist, just like Einstein. He was an English observer, while Einstein was a German theorist. During their time, Eddington and Einstein had some difficulties in research since their countries were enemies at World War I.

However, Eddington was less happy in the spotlight. He spent the rest of his life trying to unite his scientific knowledge with his religious faith. And today, his work is largely forgotten..

IMO, in science, self-publication isn’t everything. The most important thing is how we explore the science for the sake of human kind, without defying God’s existence

 

Anyway, the fun fact is: the actor playing as Einstein was the same person who became Smeagol/Gollum at The Lord of The Rings!

 

(Picture taken from IMDB)

Microsoft compares OpenOffice.org Writer and MS Word

By Bruce Byfield

Until now, I had somehow missed Microsoft’s "Why Microsoft" videos, explaining why users should choose Microsoft Office over OpenOffice.org. The title of the series alone warns you to expect bias, but you might not expect are the high number of errors, omissions and misleading statements in the videos. In fact, there are so many that it took me over twenty minutes to view the six minute video on Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org Writer, since I had to stop after almost every sentence to take notes about my problems with what was said.

The video’s narrator, Jake Zborowski, a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, starts by explaining that he is going to show you "a few of the many examples of what you miss when you choose OpenOffice.org over Microsoft Office." He goes on to compare Word and Writer in five areas: styles, visuals, search, spell-checking and grammar, and sharing documents. To make the video more personal, the narrator focuses on the experience of two users, Dave, an OpenOffice.org Writer user, and Holly, an MS Word user.

Styles

Styles are a strange area for the video to focus on, because, on the whole, Word is designed for manual formatting, while Writer is designed for styles. Not only does Writer have far more categories of styles than Word, but each style also contains far more options.

Unsurprisingly, though, these inconvenient facts are not mentioned in the video. Instead, it shows a few seconds of Dave using the Styles and Formatting floating window, and then moving to the toolbar to change a font size manually — something that most people using styles would rarely do.

7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook

Using a weak password

Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word "houses": hO27usEs!

Leaving your full birth date in your profile

It’s an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you’ve already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.

Overlooking useful privacy controls

Solaris Is Dead. Long Live Linux.

Christopher Smart | Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

We are all waiting to see just exactly what Oracle will do with the late Sun’s assets. Now we are starting to see some of the picture loud and clear.

Linux has certainly revolutionized the computer industry. What was once the domain of expensive, proprietary Unix systems now belongs to our favorite operating system. With big players like IBM making the decision to support Linux, it has effectively killed off its proprietary competition. Google’s entire network runs on Linux, as does the majority of the Internet.

In the year 2000, Linux accounted for little over 5% of the world’s super computers. Who had majority market share? Proprietary Unix at 90%.

Less than a decade later those numbers are completely reversed. That’s right, folks. Today, Linux owns just shy of 90% market share, with Unix having fallen to a mere 5%.

Twitterbuilding.com—Stealing Your Passwords One Tweet at a Time

by Robert McArdle (Senior Malware Researcher)  |  January 14^th, 2010  |  3:10 pm (UTC-7)  

I, like many others, am a big fan of Twitter, although I’m fairly ruthless about pruning those I follow. Most of the people I follow are either other security professionals or close friends and they normally Tweet content that I am genuinely interested in. The first hint of someone going to the dark side, e.g.,

In McDonalds—should I get a cheeseburger or a big mac?
4 minutes ago from iPhone by InaneTwit

So confused—must decide soon—1 person in front of me in Q!
3 minutes ago from iPhone by InaneTwit

I got the cheeseburger!
2 minutes ago from iPhone by InaneTwit

… and I will ruthlessly remove them.

US Copyright Lobby: FOSS “Weakens Software Industry”

posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Feb 2010 22:23 UTC

 

The world is slowly and surely going crazy. I’m sure of it now. The US copyright lobby has officially gone totally and utterly nuts. Get this: they are trying to lobby the US government to equate encouraging the use of Free and open source software to undermining intellectual property rights, and to weakening the software industry. I wish I was making this stuff up.

The International Intellectual Property Alliance is an umbrella group for organisations like the RIAA and the MPAA, but it also covers publishing, television, and software. It’s one of those organisations you don’t hear about often, who operate rather silently in the background, lobbying for their poisonous cause to the US government.

What the IIPA is currently lobbying for defies all logic. They want the US Trade Representative to place countries like Brazil, India, and Indonesia on the Special 301 list, which is a list of countries that do not, according to mostly the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and the IIPA, do enough to protect intellectual property rights.

Now, why should these countries be placed on this Special 301 list? Hold on to your Debian t-shirt, because it’s all about Free and open source software. The governments of the countries the IIPA wants to add have one thing in common: they’ve used or are encouraging the adoption of Free and open source software, which, according to the IIPA, "weakens the software industry" and "fails to build respect for intellectual property rights".