Sprint website reveals personal customer information

Sprint’s website features a “Check Upgrade Eligibility” link that might reveal your personal information to anyone with your phone number and billing zip code. Simply enter your information here and see if your information has been compromised. This is just one more reason you should not use Sprint as a wireless provider.

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Encrypt your web browsing session (with an SSH SOCKS proxy)

Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani has an interesting method of securing your web traffic via a SSH SOCKS proxy. This is a great way to keep co-workers and employers from snooping on your traffic. This method is ideal for public wi-fi networks where you don’t want to share your entire browsing session with everyone on the network (including the provider).

You’re at an open wireless hotspot, but you don’t want to send your web browsing data over it in plain text. Or you want to visit a non-work-approved web page from the office computer without the IT team finding out.

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DIY Tips for a Spam-Free Inbox

Whether we like it or not, spam is a part of our digital lives. Personally I hate spam in my inbox. Guy Roberts, anti-spam research manager, McAfee, Inc. has some tips to help you avoid getting more spam with his DIY Tips for a Spam-Free Inbox. Some of the tips include …

1. Never respond to spam. If you reply, even to request removing your e-mail address from the mailing list, you are confirming that your e-mail address is valid and that the spam has been successfully delivered to your inbox. Lists of confirmed e-mail addresses are more valuable to spammers than unconfirmed lists, and are frequently bought and sold by spammers.
2. When filling out Web forms, check the site’s privacy policy to ensure it will not be sold or passed on to other companies. There may be a checkbox to opt out of third party mailings.

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How to make a “Hollow Book”

Ever wanted to create your own hollow book? Well now you can by following these simple instructions.

Materials Needed

1. Elmer’s white glue
2. 2. a container to hold glue solution (I’ve chosen a film canister)
3. X-acto knife, and/or box cutter. Both if you have them
4. brush to apply glue solution
5. pencil/pen
6. ruler, or other rigid straight edge
7. brush to apply glue solution
8. pencil/pen
9. ruler, or other rigid straight edge

How to make a Hollow Book from scratch

Surf anonymous with AnonyMouse.org

When we use the internet to look for resources, shop for gifts, and other online activities every aspect of your surfing habits are usually stored in a sites web server logs including IP address, browser type, operating system, and even what site you came from. For some this may be no problem, for others it is a direct invasion of privacy. Well now you can surf anonymously using www.anonymouse.org. There are a lot of these types of proxy sites which allow your IP and computer information to be masked. If you are concerned about your privacy online you might want to use one. If you are really concerned about privacy there is software such as hideip that run on your computer continuously masking your info using different proxy servers.