Chucks Blog

I recently had to play with LogMeIn.com’s services for a class, and began thinking about the service’s security. Yes, they state they use encryption. Yes, they provide the ability to use one time passwords. But are they really secure? I guess I am reluctant to trust third parties with access to my computers, but hey, [...]

Alright, I’ll confess. I do have a Facebook account, even though I am a bit of a privacy nut. However, unlike most users I have employed the privacy settings to protect me from the average data mining theif.
Although it looks like it’s about to get a bit harder for these folks to get the data [...]

Just today I recalled that I was going to commit myself to posting an analysis of the spam I received each month. That was waaay back around March, so I’ve decided maybe I shouldn’t commit to that sort of time frame. What made me take so long? Well..

This is my personal account’s spam box you [...]

After just posting about a command line solution to using Tor I thought it’d be a good idea to quickly mention a few security concerns about the network.
Tor is designed to make your traffic somewhat anonymous, and does not make you more secure by using it. If you use tor with encrypted protocols and avoid [...]

I applied for Google Voice a few weeks back, (which by the way, you can do here) and got the invite yesterday morning. Eager to find out its features I quickly logged in, and found myself rather pleased.

After choosing your number and logging in you are presented with this page, which can be used to [...]

Been with VPSLink quite a few months now, and I must say things are going well.
chuck@wine:~$ uptime
20:50:50 up 64 days, 51 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Last reboot I did myself for a software update. And the only other downtime before that was during their datacenter power failure. No biggy though – [...]

SIM cards are used by carriers to identify a phone, store its contact information, and allow the consumer to use the phone of their choice. But in the U.S. there are unfortunately only a few prepaid carriers that use the GSM network that SIM cards are compatible with.
The carriers with significant coverage I know of [...]