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More on Google Analytics: Now with Stolen Search Queries!

In my earlier article on Using Google Analytics to Subvert Privacy, I demonstrated how dangerous free tools could be to match privacy information to web clicks.
But now that Google has updated their Analytics service to support internal search queries, you can now link user privacy information to search data, as well. Now everyone can […]

Preventing and Detecting Sensitive Data on P2P Networks

Recently, we’ve heard a lot of talk about P2P apps and data leakage concerning various members of Congress. It started with this article over at NetworkWorld, followed up by the guys at nCircle, directing criticism towards Congree from Techdirt, comments from LonerVamp, and lately a rambling from Alan Shimel on how NAC will solve the […]

Suggested reading this week

I’ve been real busy lately, but I came across several blogs and articles this week that I’d like to share, Andrew Hay style. =)
CEO Crime & Punishment — Ben Horowitz, CEO of Opsware Inc., shares his thoughts on what entices executives to commit white collar crime. Is it for money? Or is there some other […]

Dell + Google Toolbar… profit??!?!

Andrew Hay writes:
Dell & Google Secretly Installing Software to Make Money Off Your Typos - Those….bastards….how is this business practice not illegal?
New Dell machines that include the Google toolbar as part of a marketing agreement also include a secret program that redirects non-url information typed into a browser window to a Dell-branded page filled with […]

Today’s Lucky Numbers are…

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