Privacy – Phocean.net / Computer Security Blog Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:17:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10 Deleteyouraccount.com to easily get rid off social networking /2010/04/04/deleteyouraccount-com-to-easily-get-rid-off-social-networking.html /2010/04/04/deleteyouraccount-com-to-easily-get-rid-off-social-networking.html#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:31:28 +0000 http://www.phocean.net/?p=761 http://www.phocean.net/?p=761 Continue Reading]]> Deleteyouraccount.com is a very convenient website if you consider deleting your account from one of these social networking sites that are everywhere now. Of course, they all do their best to make it difficult, trying to hide it and discourage you. Here Deleteyouraccount comes to help.

I will still take a few days of thoughts, but I am seriously considering deleting my Linkedin account. I once got invited to it and got trapped.

My private data are certainly useful to Linkedin, but all this stuff has been totally useless to me so far. One of the things I really hate is that it tends to  increase the number of contacts artificially even though the relationship is not sincere.

I have a number of “contacts” that I barely know or keep in touch with, whereas I don’t need Linkedin to communicate with the people I truly appreciate.

Less social networking, more human reliationship, more freedom, more privacy : sounds good.

]]> /2010/04/04/deleteyouraccount-com-to-easily-get-rid-off-social-networking.html/feed 2 bugmenot.com /2010/03/08/bugmenot-com.html Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:34:09 +0000 http://www.phocean.net/?p=731 http://www.phocean.net/?p=731 Continue Reading]]> I just discovered the BugMeNot service today.

It offers a database of logins shared by the community to login to free websites that require free registration.

This is usually annoying to subscribe to such a website just to download a freeware or read an article, and it often makes people choose unsecured or random logins.

They even provide an extension for Firefox. Thanks to this great website, you are probably going to save a lot of time.

]]> Privacy and Facebook /2010/01/11/privacy-and-facebook.html Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:51:42 +0000 http://www.phocean.net/?p=675 http://www.phocean.net/?p=675 That is exactly why I have never used – and will never use – Facebook or anything like that.

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