Posts by Bob 13

Stealth installs and adware come to Facebook

Yup.

Just checked my applications list and had three new ones, all Gawker Media pages. I was a fan of one on FB, but not the other two.

I'm closing my FB account. This is goddamned ridiculous.

Mozilla man sends Firefoxers to Microsoft Bing

Why bother?

Not that I support Schmidt's position, or am eager to give up on my privacy, but if you think any service by any major (or even minor) online organization is not collecting any data they can get on you, you're delusional. It's in their best interests to gather all the information about its users as possible, so damn straight they're going to do it... and government data protections laws are toothless enough that they can get away with it.

Which leaves a private internet denizen torn: do you fight like mad for your privacy and just not do anything online, or give up the fight since privacy really is becoming a thing of the past?

McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide

It got us too.

It took down our BES server and our server team is still working on it. This isn't the first problem McAfee has caused, so I have no idea why the server team is still using it.

Of course, it's their problem to fix too, so what do I care?