This is a follow-up on the original post: Location based service and privacy (or the lack thereof). This post, part two is a short evaluation of how sharing my location with each and everyone changed my life.
Okay so what did I do? Well I spend the first couple of weeks tweeting, and sharing my location on foursquare 4 or 5 times each day. I lost some followers to that but it was in the name of science. My days basically are kind of »Read More
(I know where you have been)
Location based services and privacy. Are you willing to give the latter one up for the first?
This is the first in a series of three.
Lets talk about a few things first, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Google Latitude, Flickr. I bet you use at least two of those? Good, so do I. I mainly use Twitter, upload a daily picture to Flickr, reply to posts on Facebook and am about to share my daily location via Foursquare for this experiment, so lets continue. What exactly does this mean in regard to privacy? »Read More
As some might know, PGP is a way to encrypt or sign messages. I’m using GPG (Hey you misspelled it,- no i did not) for quite a while now and thought i’d write this little post about it. First of all some background.
PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy and became commercial some years ago. GPG is the free alternative. GPG can be used to encrypt and decrypt messages and documents using certificates. For _all_ the information on PGP visit Wikipedia. Though you should use GPG.
So how does it work? Well Each party creates a Public and a Private key. The Public
is the one that you send to other parties and the Private is the one you should guard with your life. When someone encrypts a message with your Public Key, your Private key allows you to decrypt it, and since it is signed with the others Public key, the matching Private key allows for decryption as well. »Read More
When you use Google Apps for your domain you might want to forward e-mail for your domain to the Mail-eXchangers from Google so that e-mails get delivered in your inbox at Google and not on the local server.
Why do so? When someone uses sendmail or mails from another domain on the same server, Plesk / Qmail / Postfix do a local delivery to the corresponding domain / e-mail account. Thus the message stays on the same server and never reaches your mailbox. »Read More
