The last couple of weeks saw me reading extensively about PDAs given that my much loved E61 was not keeping well. E61 was a good choice but then it was a bit bulky, little too wide and Symbian was not too fast. After a bit of research and playing around with various PDA models such as HTC, iPAQ, O2 and iMate, I picked up a sleek black HTC Touch. With just under $475, it is definitely value for money.What I Needed I needed a PDA that can remind me of tasks, shows appointments, stores emails and syncs well with Windows based laptop that I use for work. And if it enables me to read RSS and plays Tetris, nothing like it. Continue reading ‘Review: HTC Touch’
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The much knowledgeable computer hardware geek Chris has written a blog post on Google and Privacy. A subject that has taken up most of my free time for the last few weeks. A subject that I have been most inclined to write about, but never actually got down to scribble something. A subject that I have worked on for the last few years. So now that I have something to rant about, I’ll let my thoughts flow. The article discusses Google owned applications such as Gmail, Adsense and Gtalk etc more from a ‘single point of failure’ perspective than from the privacy angle. Privacy breach is not limited to someone getting into your account and stealing away your information. Privacy breach is misusing Google for google-hacks and collecting, processing and disseminating personally identifiable information without consent. Being a techie or geek helps you being safe on public networks such as Internet. It protects you from virus, trojans and known malicious activities on the Internet. It helps you filter between legitimate emails and phishing attacks. But does it help you protect your privacy to a safe limit? The answer from my experience is NO. Continue reading ‘Google & Privacy’
I am Sumeet,an information security enthusiast, crazy about Coffee, iPod, everything mac, travelling, consuming rss and eating. I work for a large consulting firm where I usually rant about security best practices.