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Privacy Policies: You know they're there (hopefully), you know what they're basically trying to convey to you, yet most of us never even read them besides a one-time skim to make sure some new service isn't trying to pull one over on us. I got bored one day (on the toilet, no less) and started l
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...is by far the most annoying thing to find on the Internet when you're in an honest search for something. This "tagline" is part of a fake "search engine portal" used by the world's largest cybersquatter, information.com, and this article aims to outline just how they "get away" with these registr
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As of a Facebook announcement on both the developer blog and the top of the site for all users, Facebook is getting support for actual usernames in addition to what should be your "real world" name on June 13, 2009. There are some upsides and downsides to this decision, and there are some things
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When we first got an AOL Internet connection back in the mid-90's, my parents used to always warn me about my online activity and to watch what I put "out there" on the Internet. Standards have relaxed these days, needless to say, partly due to the heavy online presence of today's current generation
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Abandonware, software that is unsupported and obsolete yet still covered by copyright, has been an ongoing legality topic with no definitive precedent case determining its verdict of being legal or not. Although most argue that abandonware is software still technically covered by an unexpired copyri
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Wikileaks.org, the fearless wiki run by the Pirate Bay masterminds has gone down recently due to an expired domain name from dynadot.com. The site is notorious for hundreds of confidential documents being hosted, and recently made headlines as the site hacker group Anonymous chose to host USA VP can
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Psystar Corporation, popular in the Hackintosh community for being the first OEM to sell prepackaged custom PC hardware running the hacked version of Mac OS X Leopard which has been circulating widely across the internet lately, may or may not have an uphill legal battle against Apple computer regar
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Sarah Palin, Vice President candidate under John McCain's Yahoo! email account was hacked Wednesday, and several email were leaked to the confidential document website Wikileaks.org. At least one email to Amy McCorkell of Palin's advisory board has been confirmed, and the FBI is investigating the ha
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