Posted by Peter L on February 16, 2010
I hope you all enjoyed Valentine’s Day! After reading the previous post, I hope that you all included a note to your beloved in that box of chocolates in which you announced that you’ve changed your shared gmail password. Here are a couple of articles that came out recently that highlight the fact that feelings [...]
Posted by Peter L on January 14, 2010
Because there is more to life than just passwords (yes, we admit it!) and facebook and ‘official’ letters from the FBI, we’ll occasionally point out events and activities and all sorts of other things that excite the Sticky Password team. The Sticky Password team has become very interested in helping Manatees in Florida. So much [...]
Posted by Peter L on January 12, 2010
Yesterday, The Rumpus published an interview with an undisclosed Facebook employee. In the article the employee highlights a bunch of practices within Facebook that suggest that member data isn’t as private as we might think it to be. I’ve put quotes around the word interview in the heading, because it really isn’t clear whether the [...]
Posted by Peter L on January 5, 2010
I just found about the web 2.0 suicide machine. Wow! That’s what I call finding a need and filling it. Once you get past the gallows humor – and, even though it is really only one graphical page, it took me a good while to do so, because they’ve done a great job of playing [...]
Posted by Peter L on December 13, 2009
Walk into any café, deli, or just about any place where you can sit down (for instance, the salon where my wife gets her hair cut), and you’ll probably be able to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot or a wireless network. From my desk at home, I can detect 6 wireless networks. Including mine, only [...]
Posted by admin on December 10, 2009
Not so long ago, I was VP at a rapidly growing anti-virus company. I was in sales and marketing, but I liked hanging out with the anti-virus gurus. Their jobs seemed so exotic and exciting as they were on 24-hour call saving the world! The more I talked with them, the more I understood that [...]