Piriform, company behind popular programs such as CCleaner, Defraggler and Speccy, is currently producing and releasing updates for all their applications to improve SSD detection among other things. Speccy, which has been updated yesterday, is the latest to receive that treatment. And since the last review dates two years back, I thought it is as [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Trails, Save Texts And Images With Firefox
Once in a while I stumble upon information that I want to preserve. Sure, I can bookmark the page to access it at a later time, but what if that page gets deleted or moved? I can also save the HTML page to the local computer, but unless I install an extension that adds a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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UK. Sensitive Information. Need We Say More?
The massive increase in data collection throughout the world has not led to responsible data storage laws. That is an imbalance that becomes obvious especially in one country these days. The UK is amassing heaps of data about their citizens for their fight against terrorism (and other causes) but is failing miserably over and over [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Evaluate Document Information Leak Level
SolFileFinder is a risk visualization tool for Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF documents as well as zip files. It searches Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 documents encrypted by IRM (Information Rights Managements) or PWD (password) and Adobe Acrobat PDF documents and Zip files encrypted by PWD. The software can be used to scan [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Organize yourself with Tobu
As you may know from my blog, I love information organizers. I think that sounds a bit sad looking back at that sentence, but nevertheless I do, and I cam across a cool little application today called Tobu. I think this is a great application for a number of reasons, but while getting into details [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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How to bypass Internet Censorship
If you are looking for a comprehensive, and I mean really really comprehensive, guide on bypassing internet censorship you might want to take a look at the excellent guide written by Freerk. The guide is divided into two parts; The first analyzes different methods to censor information on the internet and the second part describes different ways to bypass censorship.