My issue started when one of my site hosts, Pinnacle Cart, switched the mail server to TLS 1.2 for PCI compliance. On the computer using Windows 7, 64 bit, (same issue applies to 32 bit) my Outlook 2010 was no longer able to ...
CHECK TO SEE IF YOUR LOG INS ARE ON HACKED LISTS
by Safari Woman
"Given the size and scope of the leak, anyone who does anything online should check if their passwords were compromised. To check whether your password is safe, there are several free and easy options you can use. They includ...
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HACKERS, LOG INS, STOLEN PASSWORDS, DATA BREACH
Easy way to report PHISHING Mail or Text
by Safari Woman
The latest professional looking phishing mail I saw was from a phisher who spoofed Amazon saying the credit card information wasn't correct to please make changes. Who ever did it was really good at creating a professional lo...
Safety and Privacy Online
by Safari Woman
This is a place to collect information, services, software and methods to help stay safe and private online.
Please do your own research about anything posted here as I have before posting but in these times when it is diffi...
Facebook Threatened to Shut Me Out Today - Over This
by Safari Woman
Today I logged on to find the following message:
"The content you've attempted to share violates our Community Standards. We have stopped your attempt to share this content.
At Facebook we remove content that threatens or pro...
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Facebook, censorship, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden.
Pentagon cancels LifeLog project announced on same day ...
by Safari Woman
I can't take credit for this discovery as I found it on the qanon.pub site.
LifeLog was a program designed to collect every minute detail of a person's life. Facebook does just that to the extent people volunteer the inform...
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Facebook, Pentagon, LifeLog, data mining
BOOM Wikileaks Releases Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Reve...
by Safari Woman
This is amazing stuff revealing the truth behind every guess I've ever made about the ability of the CIA to use technology and especially "Smart Technology Devices" for spying. What I didn't guess was that their methods, troj...
How hard should it be to buy plastic bags and folding t...
"THEY" messed up the internet!
Searching for items I am shopping for has been a ridiculous nightmare this past week. I long for the time of searching and actually finding what I am looking for in a reasonably short time. NO...
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search engines, shopping, online shopping, google, ebay, amazon
Frustrations With Web Building Tech Support
by Safari Woman
Several people come to me with questions about their website construction. I try to answer or research to give back a good response. I know a lot. But I don't, and no one can, know everything.
Today I have so far worked with...
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websites, webmasters, tech support, experts.
Former Police Chief Went Undercover on YouTube for the ...
by Safari Woman
In my years of experience at networking, I've seen quite a few suspicious accounts posing as conservatives on various networks. SodaHead, Facebook and Twitter for example to name a few. Someone just a little too gung-ho to v...
Who Is Behind BRAVE?
Brave appears to be an off take from Mozilla. Here's what I found so far but nothing that allows me to know if they are left leaning, right leaning or neutral. I've always thought of Mozilla as neutral but - a couple of recen...
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BRAVE browser, who is behind BRAVE app
Fake News Sites and Open Sources Where Content May Not ...
by Safari Woman
I mistakenly posted something on Facebook before checking and murphy's law dictated that it turned out to be a satire piece. Normally I check and recheck and or note a disclaimer that I haven't if a story is questionable. In ...
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news sources, fake sites, hoaxes, satire, dis-info, misdirection, propaganda, jokes
WTF does BAE mean? Well here it is...
by Safari Woman
For weeks I've been seeing videos, quick clips and comments using the new meme word BAE. On several occasions, right when I thought I'd figured it out, I would read or hear it used in a way that my guess didn't hold up for. ...
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BAE, definition, meme, word
Things you should know before you do an online quiz or ...
by Safari Woman
Quiz and personality test sites are collecting information related to your answers and applying them to other info collected by others about your ip address. These sites make money from data mining. It is sold to others and ...
Topics:
Games, online quiz, personality test, data mining, internet, marketing, ips, ip addresses
Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily
A friend turned me onto this a few years ago and previously I got several good programs from it that are still on my older computer that I occasionally use. That I can tell, there is no catch, no danger and no reason not to t...
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free, software, givaway of the day, downloads, programs