Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) Abstract This specification defines the DNT request header field as an HTTP mechanism for expressing the user's preference regarding tracking, an HTML DOM property to make that expression readable by scripts, and APIs that allow scripts to register site-specific exceptions granted by the user. It also defines mechanisms for sites to communicate whether and how they honor a received preference through use of the Tk response header field and well-known resources that provide a machine-readable tracking status. Status of This Document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. This document was published by the Tracking Protection Working Group as a Last Call Working Draft on 24 April 2014. The Tracking Protection Working Group invites broad community review, especially of technical requirements and dependencies. Publication as a Last Call Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. Table of Contents 1. 2. Tracking context user party 3.
Use Email Alias and Forwarding in Gmail To Better Manage Your Life By this point, most people know about the nifty tricks you can use in your Gmail address called aliases, that allow you to give people different email addresses that all arrive at the same inbox. Aibek first covered this cool Gmail feature back in 2007, describing how you can place both periods and plus signs inside of your Gmail address and those emails will still be delivered like normal. In 2012, Craig described how you can use these separators to create distinct email addresses for yourself that you can hand out to different people, yet all of those emails arrive at the same Gmail inbox. On a basic level, that’s a great way to make use of these aliases. Just consider the possibilities here. Sound complicated? Here’s the thing about organization in life – it takes time, energy, and usually a computer or a smartphone. If I have my Android on me, then I’m in luck because I can get to my Gmail task list with it. Setting Up To-Do Task Reminder Aliases Here’s an example.
Tor Browser Bundle Download the file above, and save it somewhere, then double click on it. (1) Click "Run" then choose the installer's language and click OK (2). Make sure you have at least 80MB of free disk space in the location you select. If you want to leave the bundle on the computer, saving it to the Desktop is a good choice. If you want to move it to a different computer or limit the traces you leave behind, save it to a USB disk. Click Install (3) Wait until the installer finishes. This may take a few minutes to complete. Once the installation is complete, click Finish to launch Tor Browser's wizard. Once you see Tor Browser's wizard click Connect Alternatively, you can launch Tor Browser by going to the folder Tor Browser which can be found at the location you saved the bundle at (Default: Desktop) and double click on the Start Tor Browser application. Once Tor is ready, Tor Browser will automatically be opened. Once you are finished browsing, close any open Tor Browser windows by clicking on the
Stop The Cyborgs | Only the unmeasured is free. Heartbleed: Which Passwords You Need to Change Credit: Paramount Pictures The Heartbleed Internet-security flaw is very bad, but contrary to many media reports, you don't have to run out and change all your passwords now. In some cases, it might be better to wait, or not do it at all. First, to be clear, you don't need to change any passwords or PINs you use to log into a Windows PC, Mac or mobile device. MORE: Heartbleed: Who Was Affected, What to Do Now Heartbleed affects Web, email and chat servers by undermining the secure connections they make with you. Furthermore, although Heartbleed was made public on Monday evening (April 7), some companies got advance warning and patched their vulnerable servers beforehand. Most companies got no advance warning, including Yahoo, which scrambled to patch its servers Tuesday even as security researchers found it was easy to see usernames and passwords as users logged into Yahoo Mail. Sites for which you will definitely need to change your password Yahoo, including Yahoo Mail and any Yahoo Group
iRights.info | iRights.info Data Protection Officials Adopt Internet of Things Declaration and Big Data Resolution | Inside Privacy Home > International > Data Protection Officials Adopt Internet of Things Declaration and Big Data Resolution At the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Mauritius this week, representatives of the private sector and academia joined together to discuss the positive changes and attendant risks that the internet of things and big data may bring to daily life. Attendees memorialized the observations and conclusions of their discussions in a Declaration on the Internet of Things and a Resolution on Big Data. The Mauritius Declaration on the Internet of Things and the Resolution on Big Data set out principles and recommendations designed to reduce the risks associated with the collection and use of data for players in the connected devices and big data ecosystems. Mauritius Declaration on the Internet of Things Mauritius Resolution on Big Data
Heartbleed: Who Was Affected, What to Do Now Credit: Codenomicon UPDATED 9:15 AM EDT Thursday to remove Twitter from list of affected sites, and add OKCupid. If you've been following the news for the past 24 hours, you've probably heard of the Heartbleed bug that's affecting the security of millions of websites. It's a big deal, with security experts using terms such as "catastrophic" and "devastating." Unfortunately, there's not a lot the end user can do to fix things. Heartbleed mainly creates problems on Web and email servers. MORE: 'Heartbleed' Bug Kills Security on Millions of Websites However, there are a few things every Internet user should do right now. Change your Yahoo, Flickr and Tumblr passwords. Like millions of other websites, Yahoo and its subsidiaries Flickr and Tumblr were vulnerable to Heartbleed. Security researchers yesterday (April 8) used Heartbleed to capture usernames and passwords as random people logged into their Yahoo Mail accounts. Consider changing your Google, Facebook and Dropbox passwords.
Match.com will find you someone who looks like your ex New Web and email address options exploded this year with 469 new top-level domain names. Next year, Google, Amazon and 10 others will bid for rights to oversee .app. In 2014, the renaming of the Net has begun in earnest. A dramatic liberalization of the Internet address system means that people can set up websites and email addresses ending in .photography, .london, .gift, .beer and .restaurant. And since they started arriving early in 2014, the virtual land grab has begun in earnest. Starting in February, 469 of these new names arrived, says the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN), a nonprofit organization that oversees the system. The addresses are called generic top-level domains (GTLDs), and their debut is part of ICANN's years-long plan to introduce new virtual real estate on the Net. With the GTLD expansion, people can identify themselves by profession -- for instance, .photography, .florist, .realtor, .pizza and .plumber. How new TLDs arrive
Change passwords: How to protect yourself against the Heartbleed bug (+Video) - San Diego Top News Does changing your passwords quickly, after the Heartbleed bug was discovered, protect your bank account, credit cards, or email accounts? The Heartbleed bug is being called by many security experts the most serious bug that has hit the Internet because it is affecting websites that were supposedly secured. According to an April 9 NPR report, the way banks and other companies protect the Internet user’s data from hackers is by providing OpenSSL. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer and is a cryptographic protocol that puts the S in "https" – which can be seen on Web addresses whenever a user goes to a website that is secured. Just recently, it was discovered that there has been a hole in that most vital security system (the heart) and that secure information has been “bleeding” out to hackers and other cybercriminals – since March 2012. Changing passwords on websites that have not applied the available security fix still leaves Internet users vulnerable.
NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking A slide from an internal NSA presentation indicating that the agency uses at least one Google cookie as a way to identify targets for exploitation. (Washington Post) The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance. The agency's internal presentation slides, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the government. For years, privacy advocates have raised concerns about the use of commercial tracking tools to identify and target consumers with advertisements. The revelation that the NSA is piggybacking on these commercial technologies could shift that debate, handing privacy advocates a new argument for reining in commercial surveillance. Google's PREF Cookie
HEARTBLEED BUG What You Need To Know | Farmville Dirt Farmer News sites are awash with news of a scary sounding exploit called Heartbleed this evening . Details abound but they’re all technical. What does it mean? Heart bleed is a vulnerability that was just discovered in a certain type of secure server known as openssl. The vulnerability was just discovered but has actually been open for up to two years. CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS - on any and all online accounts. Big Brother Watch | Defending civil liberties, protecting privacy Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos - Steven Strogatz, Cornell University This course of 25 lectures, filmed at Cornell University in Spring 2014, is intended for newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos. It closely follows Prof. Strogatz's book, "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering." The mathematical treatment is friendly and informal, but still careful. Analytical methods, concrete examples, and geometric intuition are stressed. The theory is developed systematically, starting with first-order differential equations and their bifurcations, followed by phase plane analysis, limit cycles and their bifurcations, and culminating with the Lorenz equations, chaos, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalization, fractals, and strange attractors. This course of 25 lectures, filmed at Cornell University in Spring 2014, is intended for newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos.