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Visitor poll results: What makes you tick

Sarah’s wrap up
Firstly, thanks very much to all of you who took the time to vote in our poll this month. We will be posting a new poll every month aimed at finding out a little more about you, so that we can be certain we’re creating posts that you’re interested in.
The wonderful weekly [...]


Social networking sites – what have I learnt?

I really hope that you’ve enjoyed my previous posts looking at the small print of social networking sites’ T&Cs and privacy policies:

Social networking privacy and data issues
Social networking privacy issues – signing up
Social networking privacy – where are your details stored?
Social networking sites – inviting your friends to sign up
Social networking privacy – forgetting your [...]


Countries censoring bloggers named

Reporters without Borders has released its sixth annual report, detailing 169 countries’ press freedom.
Iceland and Norway are in joint first place, with Estonia and Slovakia in joint third, followed by Belgium, Finland and Sweden in fifth. Eritrea suffers from the most press censorship, followed by North Korea, Turkmenistan and Iran.
Sadly for countries outside Europe, [...]


New BlogSecurity look

Welcome to BlogSecurity, as you may have noticed, we are excited to announce the launch of our new web template.

We wanted a custom template and something we could build upon. So we had the guys at AskGraphics come up with a design for us. The results speak for themselves. The design is truly unique and [...]


Social networking privacy – forgetting your password and closing your account

This post follows on from some previous social networking articles that form a small project looking at data security and the small print of social networking websites.
I’ve forgotten my password
During my investigation of these sites, I found that if you forget your password, two of the eight sites will send it in an email to [...]