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Privacy on your Smartphone a solution for all

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve recently written an article on smartphones only to think about a few things.  One of the things I thought about was the fact that nobody has created a VPN service that is truly anonymous (as in not keeping logs) for smartphones. (They claim they are, but there is very little truth to that). So,…

Corporate Privacy as a consultant

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’m a consultant and on occasion, I have to be on-site at the client.  The problem is, some corporations are completely psychotic about security. Unfortunately, it’s not for the right reasons.  It’s usually to protect themselves.  They look at everything you do, every email you send, every website you browse, and pretty much monitor your…

Is Firefox preventing you from going to a website because of the port it’s on? [Solved]

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Every once in a while, we need to go to a website that has a non-standard port.  For example, the address might look like this:  https://localhost:888  (This would be for the 3ware management interface for example). In Mozilla Firefox, you’ll get a screen that looks like this: [singlepic id=63] Obviously, this can be a real…

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