Logging into Facebook today, I was greeted with a little box in the upper right-hand corner of my screen, telling me that my security level was “low.” Intrigued (last week it was marked “medium), I decided to click. Facebook has been trying to increase their security measures for awhile, a commendable effort. Unfortunately, once again, […]
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Internet Sabbatical
Starting tomorrow, I am doing something that I have never definitively done: I am taking an Internet sabbatical for one full week. I’m very fortunate: I travel quite a bit for conferences and speaking engagements, and when I do, I often manage to book an extra day or two for sightseeing. During those brief periods, […]
The UK is in talks for a national filter that would block pornography. Not child sex abuse (nobody sane is arguing over whether that should be accessible), but legal, adult pornography. The idea is to protect the UK’s children, and since adults have the choice of getting out of the filter, then there’s nothing wrong […]