Partially Avoiding the “Filter Bubble” Using Private Browsing

If you’ve read or heard anything about The Filter Bubble, you know that your on-line habits, content choices, searches, physical location, etc., are now being used more and more to give you a customized view of information. This is true whether we’re talking search results via Google or seeing updates on Facebook. The main issue [...]

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Protecting Computers on No Budget

I help out from time to time at my church with the computer systems, but admittedly my time doing so is limited. My primary responsibility is to be the junior high youth pastor with a secondary responsibility of being the Awana commander. But recently I’ve had to spend a little more time with the secretary’s [...]

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Facebook and E-Mail Security for a New Teenager

Just recently, my oldest son entered the ranks of the teenagers. I shouldn’t actually say teenagers, because I have come to not like that word, mainly because of the influence of the book, Do Hard Things. But with 13 came access to email and to Facebook. Here’s how I tackled things, not only setup, but [...]

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Taking My Ball and Going Home

I had seen others using the FourSquare application and decided to give it a try. Here’s basically what it does: It allows you to post check-ins of your location for your friends to see. It allows you to see the location of your friends. It allows you to post tips or things to do at [...]

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New Goal: Security Presentation for End Users on Social Media

In recent days I’ve seen folks jump on Facebook groups and become fans of pages which I know, from a glance, are not what they appear to be. Part of the reason I know they aren’t goes back to my experience as an IT security professional. Part of it goes back to my experience as [...]

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