SwitchProxy update - google posterity post

I swear by SwitchProxy for Firefox. I use proxies to test our work environment and route web traffic through a SSH tunnel when I’m on an untrusted wireless network. Unfortunately, SwitchProxy hasn’t been updated for some time - it doesn’t work on newer versions of Firefox.
I read this post which talked about tweaking .xpi files [...]

Linked networks

Ok, so I post to Wordpress. Wordpress posts an update to Twitter via Twitter tools and to Livejournal. LJ gets the whole post with comments redirected to Wordpress. Twitter posts a shortened URL to the blog post. Twitter gets slurped once a day into LoudTwitter, which also posts to LJ. And, Facebook also gets updated [...]

Settling in with my data

I’ve continued on my project to bring data back into my control and to stop sites from leveraging my information to gather my friend’s data. (Want to see Kurt’s Flickr pix? Just register on Yahoo!)
I installed Gallery on my web site and found a great script for exporting photos from Flickr to Gallery. Once I [...]

When Google owns you

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/when-google-owns-you/
Nick Saber isn’t happy now. Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn’t get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn’t get into anything that Google made (beside search) where his account credentials once worked. When attempting to log in, Nick got a single line message:
Sorry, your account [...]

TeraTerm is back

I used to swear by TeraTerm, back in the days when I still ran Telnet daemons. I seem to recall a SSHv1 add-on, but it fell by the wayside, to be replaced by Secure CRT, then by PuTTY, which I swear by.
It took a long time to get used to leftclick/rightclick for pasting, but it [...]

Pulling data back

People have data sitting on multiple social networks, search engines indexing their mail and serving up ads based on private content, and photos shared around the world on hosting sites. Each one of them has their own privacy policy, and each one requires you to have some level of trust that they’re going to protect [...]

More google bait

When setting a SOCKS5 proxy for Firefox, go to about:config and set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to TRUE. This will force DNS entries through the proxy to the remote end and eliminate DNS leakage to the local DNS server.

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