Tag: Dropbox
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Dropping Dropbox Or How I Learned To Hate The Cloud
Well not entirely, but I’ve been switching backups and data away from Dropbox for a while, given what Edward Snowden said, and the fact that Condi ‘Spy on you’ Rice is now on the board. Problem with Dropbox is many-fold, like iCloud and others there isn’t any encryption, and you just have to trust that…
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Watching Apple & Scotland with Russell Brand
Amazing that Apple has so much money offshore it could end world poverty in a heartbeat (monitor)…and I find it odd the conversation about the iCloud hacks has avoided talking about NSA and spying implications for cloud storage (which Russell isn’t interested in covering, which I understand as it’s a bit of a sideshow issue…
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WordPress Security 101
Running several WordPress sites, especially ones that gather a lot of welcome and unwelcome visitors, is a crash course in security. I’ve been using WordPress since version 1.2, where hacks were much more common, and thankfully have only been hacked once *touch wood*, back in the 1.5 days. For those not part of the WordPress…
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Cloudy thinking, or as Wired shows you can never be too paranoid
Reading about Mat Honan and his hacking experience on Wired’s blog reminded me that you can never be too paranoid either in security or backups. It brings up a new set of issues, well not actually new to those who were already working in this sphere, but new to the public at large. Which is…
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going dark…
Inevitable, and given the silly responses to open P2P and bittorrent, the way it’s going…and very hard if not possible to police, and yes supports all kinds of groups including the ones you’d rather not play with (military and child pr0n, hmm) but still…publicly offline is the new online! See you there? I wonder if…
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Soundcloud update!
Changed my URL/name on Soundcloud to mutantpop: https://soundcloud.com/mutantpop/ Rather than having multiple accounts for Instamatic, DJNoNo, tbc etc I thought one was enough 😀 And can’t promise to play/post them, but if you have any tracks you want me to hear best to drop them in the dropbox here: – much more likely to listen…