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I've just read of data loss *possibly* caused by a recent Windows update, and has so far been experienced by varying people on Windows XP, Vista and 7. Please read the article about it at Vitalsecurity.org, and this follow-up postIf you have any information about it, or it's happened to you, please post about it on ( Read more... )

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I'm seeing a lot of misinformation going around LJ regarding the security of LiveJournal accounts, so I want to take this opportunity to correct these.

Myth: Setting a secret question will make your account more secure.

This is false. Secret questions are not intended to make your account more secure; they're intended to ( Read more... )

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Just a PSA - if anybody on MSN is getting random URLs from people taking the form http://theirusername.images..info/, don't click it. I'm not sure what it is but it's not something that's safe to click.

I'm looking into it right now.

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Do you listen to Internet radio? If you do, you may have noticed that today most Internet radio stations have gone silent...

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...it's a day of silenceIt's only one day... for now. But this is what Internet radio could permanently sound like after July 15th, or soon thereafter, if nothing is done ( Read more... )

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In case anybody is interested, I went back and updated my post from yesterday; it now has something resembling an essay. ;p Go read it if you're interested; it talks about how people with "unusual" problems are misunderstood and ridiculed, and includes a large part about "invisible diseases" such as fibromyalgia and ME ( Read more... )