Privacy is something every human being thrives on. However, at the same time, we are social by nature.  If deprived of company, people can become quite unsettled.  It goes back to our most primal instincts: to have company is to survive, while to be alone is to perish.  Despite these instincts, humans still love their privacy.  In today’s society with the abundance of invasive technology, this is no easy task.

Consider a website people use every day: FaceBook.  FaceBook is one of many social networking sites, places where people go to communicate with one another and nourish the social side of their lives.  On this website, information trading takes place.  Some of this is quite personal, and only directed towards people the user deems as “friends”.  However, when FaceBook changed their privacy settings in May of 2010, pretty much anybody with an Internet connection could view your profile and content.  In the time since then, have you changed your privacy settings? Probably not; it is not something most people think about when on their pages.
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This picture says it all.  What you do on the Internet is not private.  Only you can protect your privacy by being careful about what you post and where you post.

Infographic byWordStream Internet Marketing

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The Obama administration announced on June 25th that government agencies may begin tracking traffic and behavioral data online in order to better target information and services for the people who need them. What???

That’s right, the government will begin tracking your online behavior on their websites.  That sounds harmless enough doesn’t it?  The stated purpose for this tracking is to provide better services for your when you are using their websites.

Sorry, but I’m not comfortable with this.  Here’s why: They already have databases with a lot of information about us.  This is not paranoia, it’s just part of living in any country.  You fill out forms, you pay taxes, you have government IDs; all of this leaves a trail.  When you tie in all the pieces of the trail, it paints a very detailed picture of you and all your activities.

For most people, what the government knows about them is not a problem.  I’m not really concerned about what they know about me.  I gave them most of that information.  However, the question should be: “where does that end?”  At some point, enough is enough.  One day a law will be passed that will enable the government to do something intrusive.  At that point, they will already have the data from everything you’ve done up to that point.  I know, I sound a little paranoid.

It’s just my belief that sooner or later, someone in our government even with good intentions, will cross the line to invasion of privacy.  It just all feels a little too creepy.

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Cloud computing is a recent online phenomenon, now utilized by pretty much every agency and business in the United States. While the premises of the plan and system sound promising, it actually holds a lot of security issues and other problems.

We’ll start off with the positives though. Cloud computing is the practice of storing the information in a “cloud” rather than on a hard drive or computer. These clouds usually refer to some place on the Internet. For example, rather than storing all of its clients profiles, passwords, user names, etc. on their personal servers, social networking sites like MySpace or FaceBook could simply save all of the information on the Internet. This eliminates much of the cost of securing and encrypting the information themselves, which allows the site to keep more of its revenue, and possibly add more features as it sees fit. Another thing to consider is the ergonomics of such a system; rather than storing the required information on a huge expanse of many computers, the information and data could be stored on maybe one computer, using about half of the space, as half is directly put to the Internet.

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In any society, criminals are always involved. Whenever some other person has a good amount of money and has an excellent lifestyle along with their excellent paycheck, some other person who puts no applied effort into life finds this and robs them of it. The epitome of the old school criminals is the good old “hold you at gunpoint” breed. These criminals might lurk in some gloomy alley for all of your cash and jewels, and then leave you poor and hurt. This is the most memorable view of the old-style crook.

This breed of criminals would star in the good old mafia films, the ones so outdated they would be in scratchy gray-scale. Aside from their Hollywood glitz surface though, these guys did some bad stuff. Not just the mafia gangs, but street criminals are responsible for most of the destruction and fright many citizens experience now. These people were the ones who left bystanders feeling nervous for their lives, and were bait for sensationalist news reports adding to the hysteria.

These guys were the worst of the worst in their time. They were the scum of the Earth, the ones that, when families saw their mug shots on television, would shield their kid’s eyes, as if their gaze had some strange powers. These were the reasons that America walks on eggshells with its prison system. It is a strange thing that such a free society breeds: you have these excellent freedoms, yet it is just hoped for that you will not abuse them. Unfortunately, while most of us follow our guidelines, guys like these don’t and it affects the rest of us harshly. Read Full Article

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This video is two years old.  In Internet time that’s like referencing the Ice Age.  However it’s an interesting look at Internet Privacy issues.

One of the things they do not cover is that using an IP changer is a good idea. After you watch the video, please read through some of our posts on change IP proxies.

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Along with the many advantages of the Internet, a new type of crime has emerged.  Right now, Internet crime is at an all time high.  For thieves, this is the easiest way to rob victims.  They simply have to gain access to someone’s Internet connection to take either their identity or money.  This is happening this very minute, as you are reading this article.  There is very little chance of a thief getting caught if they access a person’s credit cards, bank accounts, or other personal data via the Internet.  The days when using the Internet caused no threat of spyware and malware are long gone.  If a thief is able to access your Internet connection, every bit of information you send over that connection is open for the taking.   Every bit of information, credit card account numbers and bank account numbers is no longer safe.  What steps can a person take to prevent this from happening?  One of the very best ways to protect your personal information is to us an IP changer.  This is the perfect solution for those that want to keep their data safe and prevent thieves from gaining access to your Internet connection.

You are very likely wondering what an IP changer is.  The first thing to understand is that there are two different kinds of IP changers.  The one that is most commonly used is a web-based IP changerbecause they’re very easy to find.  You can find one by doing a simple search on Google for the term “change IP” since there will be a large number of results returned.  Once you choose one and go to the site you will find an empty box that is used to type in the URL of the web address you want to visit.  The IP changer then takes you to the address you entered without showing your IP address.  There will never be a record of your visit when you leave the site.  The IP changer works as both a retrieval tool and protection.  It sends you to the desired website and keeps a thief from gaining access to your IP address.  If a thief gets your IP address, he or she will know where you are located.  These are not the type of people that you want to know your name and address. Read Full Article

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We keep warning people that free IP changers are dangerous.  Running an IP changer costs money.  There are costs for the servers, for the hosting and for the bandwidth.  So why would anyone offer an IP changer for free?  The answer is that they are making money somehow.

For some, they are using ads to subsidize their IP changer.  Others however are more insidious.  They are using IP changers as a way to collect information from your web surfing.  They do this by reading all the information that goes through their servers.  Depending upon what sites you are visiting and what information you are sending, this can be extremely worrisome.

A paid IP changer leaves very little room for doubt as to why they are spending the money to promote their product.  They have service that they are offering and they expect to make a profit.  I don’t know about you, but I like to understand the motives of people I do business with.  I like to know how they are making their money.  And if how they make money is not obvious, I worry.

Maybe this sounds paranoid.  But even the paranoid are right sometimes.  Further I would argue that with all the spyware and viruses on the Internet, this proves that there are a lot of people with very malicious intent.

So we recommend that you don’t skimp on your anti-virus or your anti-spyware.  And obviously we also suggest that you pay for your IP changer.  Your privacy and security should not be left to the goodwill of people you don’t know.

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Everyone has experienced spam. Here we are not discussing the widely ambivalent opinions of the meat in a can, but rather the random messages to any sort of messaging center. You have probably opened up your email, and found yourself flooded with messages; either you insanely popular over night, or you have been the victim of copious amounts of spam. These messages can sometimes be completely obvious, such as a strangely titled email with many symbols with only an enigmatic assortment of oddly juxtaposed letters and numbers, something right out of the Matrix. This message was probably generated by some two bit hacker (no pun intended) using an old computer who just happened to actually hack into a system correctly, yet failing on actually sending the message. While hackers often spam people, keep in mind that anyone at any time can email anybody, so anybody is a viable victim of spam. You could do it yourself; make a message full of random stuff and send it to all of your friends and other recipients. Although it make ostracize you from virtual contact with your friends, it is the principle of the matter; anybody can spam. Read Full Article

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Schools are meant to enrich student’s lives and give them knowledge that may become vestigial at some point, but serves to enhance intellect while it is being encoded. Teachers are a large influence on every student they teach, and this is why great measures and tests are made to (hopefully) pick the best teachers. After all, our kids, the ones they are teaching, will be the future of our unstable nation, and maybe the solution to our economic crisis. This could all begin with an inspiring lecture in economics class; the teacher could have just created the godsend the United States has been looking for.

A ton of work goes into the successful running of a good school. There is so much information that must be spot on in order to keep a contained and safe atmosphere. If a teacher teaches about seven classes, with about twenty kids a class, this is a large amount of grades to be done! The papers must first be graded, the put into the grade system, then given back to the students, and then every student’s final grades must be calculated at the end of the grading quarter. For large schools of about a thousand students, attendance must be entered every day and every child missing has to be accounted for and possibly an inquisition if the story doesn’t check out.
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