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Big Brother goes to school

From the “You’ve got to be kidding” department comes a story that I’ve been following for a while, one that should make anyone think twice about using company or school-issued laptop computers. It seems that the Lower Merion School District of Philadelphia has issued...

Why Firefox?

Let’s get one thing straight, right up front: Foxfire was the title of a series of books about mountain living and folklore, published in the 1970s. Foxfire was also the name of a cheesy teen angst movie made in 1996. Firefox is the name of the world’s best web...

A scareware epidemic

It seems that I’ve fixed at least 50 computers since the first of the year that have been infected with “scareware.” Short for “scary software (I guess),” scareware is a form of extortion, as it is designed to scare you into giving a crook some money. Emerging about...