Category Archives: computers

Sixty One

Posted on September 18, 2017 by ehurst

Since it’s my birthday, I’ll take the luxury of ranting a bit. I have said that the closest I come to activism is in regards to the Internet. While it’s wholly unlikely I would try to leverage persuasion via typical … Continue reading →

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Virtual Guardians

Posted on September 8, 2017 by ehurst

Must we dig into the self-evident fact that corporations and marketers are greedy and generally willing to do anything to take your money? While particular individuals might own up to certain ethical barriers, you don’t get an MBA without absorbing … Continue reading →

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Google World

Posted on September 7, 2017 by ehurst

Consumer software is a moving target and any advice I might offer is obsolete three days later. On the tail of my advice to switch from Chrome-based browsers to Mozilla-based, I now read some of the less public chatter and … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Only

Posted on August 9, 2017 by ehurst

This is sort of a last straw for me. I’ve been watching this build up over the past few years and decided it was time to just ditch anything based on Google’s Chrome browser engine, called Blink (WebKit on Mac). … Continue reading →

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DNC Leaks and Computer Forensics

Posted on August 3, 2017 by ehurst

For those of you curious about how we do computer forensic work, here’s a short video that explains how we know that the DNC email leaks during the presidential election were an inside job. I admit that I receive darn … Continue reading →

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Update on Windows Snooping

Posted on August 1, 2017 by ehurst

If you happen to be interested in the subject, I ran across something fresh: NSA Collects MS Windows Error Information. The article discusses how the NSA is harvesting any bug report or telemetry sent from your Windows computer back to … Continue reading →

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VA Policy: Access Denied Veterans Running Linux

Posted on June 29, 2017 by ehurst

Can I get some help from someone with more expertise? I can code HTML on the fly, but I don’t mess with scripting; I have no use for it. Yes, I know my blogs have scripting, but someone else handles … Continue reading →

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Neither Technology nor Magic

Posted on June 23, 2017 by ehurst

I think I managed to save my laptop. Folks, nobody has to tell me I’m not the greatest tech support guy ever. However, I’ve done it long enough to realize that if you have one kind of failure, you can … Continue reading →

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Politics and Malware Attacks

Posted on June 1, 2017 by ehurst

As I expected, it turns out the DNC operatives did attempt to use malware attacks on their political opponents during the election. In this case it was a limited attack on some of the folks at 4chan and 8chan. That’s … Continue reading →

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Follow-up to Paranoia

Posted on May 24, 2017 by ehurst

Ref: Previous blog post — Paranoia? Testing by real experts reveals that Windows 10 ignores privacy settings. To be specific, someone who actually understands this stuff tested Windows 10 Enterprise, the one you are supposed to be able to actually … Continue reading →

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