Posts Tagged ‘security’

Another reason to use DropBox

Today I had a student call me on my google voice number and tell me that his laptop would not start up with video. Nothing on the screen. He even tried to hook it to a TV and there was nothing coming out. Video card seemed to be toast.
No big deal?
Normally this would be [...]

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DBAN – selling your computer or HDD. Read this

So I sell a fair share of my old computers and I have computers from two of my jobs that I regularly turn in for upgrades. When I do this I like to make sure my data is no longer on the machine.
It isn’t that I am doing anything wrong, it is just that I [...]

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Passwords, passwords and more passwords

So you know the saying that you need to have a separate password for each site you access right? Most of us do not. I am as guilty of this as anyone.
Why is it so important (and why am I going to change my behavior)?
Let’s say China gets into Google’s servers and finds my password. [...]

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