Someone should hire Katja Base as a skip tracer. The AP is reporting on this mother of 6, who used some street smarts, detective and investigative skills to track down some teen pranksters that vandalized her house. As a result of her amateur detective work, 6 teenagers are now facing vandalism charges. You can read […]
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These “before” and “after” satellite images published by the New York Times online show the remarkably powerful information tools that satellite imagery and networked computers have put in the hands of the general public. You can click on the “July 12” button to see what Beirut looked like before the conflict with Israel began and […]
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An Aug. 2 article in Information Week discusses the legal and financial issues facing libraries, schools and social network sites, if the Deleting Online Predators Act becomes law. From the article — Libraries and schools could be required to limit access to certain Web sites if the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), which recently cleared […]
WikiHow has an excellent “how-to” entry on surfing the web and communicating online anonymously. A number of options are included in the how-to: from using public proxies in your web browser to using free anonymous surfing web sites and software. You can read the how-to on anonymous web surfing @ How to Surf the Web […]
In what could be one of the more unusual identity theft stories that we have ever read, the Associated Press is reporting on a waitress that was handed her own driver’s license, when she carded a female patron. From the article — WESTLAKE, Ohio — Maybe she should have paid better attention to her server. […]