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3 Ways To Avoid Being Hacked

Internet security has become a huge issue in the past couple of years. The recent Sony network hack has caused debates among many network security companies. Internet users are beginning to question the level of security for major sites, wondering if their personal information is truly safe. If you want to avoid being hacked, there are steps you can take towards protecting your information. Consider these tips....

1. Use A Strong Password

A strong password will prevent hackers from gaining access to your account information. Strong passwords usually contain 15 characters, a mix of numbers and symbols, and it must be a name or phrase that is not common. Never use your social security number, birth date, or names of friends and family.

If you have trouble creating your own strong password, you can use a strong password generator to create a strong password for you.

2. Never Select "Remember This Password"

This tip is more for Microsoft XP users. (Read More....)

Researchers Use Math And Technology To Track Crime

A group of researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed an algorithm for tracking criminals based on the “digital trace” they leave behind in real time. Prof. Irad Ben-Gal, Dr. Eugene Kagan and Ph.D. student Aviv Gruber have come up with a way to use the digital traces that people leave behind as they move and interact with technology to catch criminals and strengthen homeland security.

The technique uses data from communication files along with the general data about the criminals to discern a pattern of movement and criminal activity. By aggregating information from emails, phone calls, and other data, the algorithm analyzes the patterns and variables and comes up with reasonable conclusions about possible locations of suspects and predictions about future movement.

The tracking system outputs a probability map that highlights zones where the suspects, criminals, terrorists, or (Read More....)

What Do The Protests In Egypt Mean To America?

What Egypt means to America?

That ultimately we too will fall…

By Jack E. Lohman

Americans do not like to talk of this, but it is inevitable. They are throwing rocks but we have guns. Ours won’t be as nice.

We at least have a semblance of fair elections, but increasingly they are controlled by the top 3% of the wealthy and the politicians that benefit from the payola. And the fact that our Constitution has been construed to make money = speech and corporations = people has made matters worse.

The Fat Cats have their personal vote, but they also control the purse strings that excite the politicians.

Looking at the Egyptian protests it is too soon to tell whether they are going to be ahead or behind when it’s all over. In any gathering of this type the Bell curve tells us that there are some very good people at one end and some very bad people at the other.

Who prevails will dictate (Read More....)

Turning The Clock Back Isn't Enough: The Nasty Surprise Awaiting The GOP On Health Care And The Deficit

Today we have a wonderful guest article from Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson. They are the authors of a new book entitled Where Does the Money Go? Rev Ed: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis. What they have to say about Medicare, Social Security and the coming federal government debt crisis should be a huge wake up call for all of us. The truth is that the U.S. government is looking at a sea of red ink for as far as the eye can see, and our politicians are just going about business as usual as if our entire financial system was not about to come crashing down on our heads. I think that all of you are really going to enjoy the tremendous insights that Bittle and Johnson have shared with us in this article....

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Turning the Clock Back Isn't Enough: The Nasty Surprise Awaiting the GOP on Health Care and the Deficit By Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, Authors of (Read More....)

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