&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Security on Hi from Dwipal</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/security/</link><description>Recent content in Security on Hi from Dwipal</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:01:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/security/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Your Privacy Online</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2008-08-08-your-privacy-online/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2008-08-08-your-privacy-online/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So there is big &amp;lsquo;shift&amp;rsquo; towards the &amp;lsquo;cloud&amp;rsquo; in the industry nowadays. Everyone has started to provide (really good) server based services, whether its for your contacts, documents, email, pictures, storage and even the more niche things like your browser favorites, your search history, things like notes, snippets, your friends and their friends.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of the companies providing these services have a pretty clear privacy policy, which basically states that they won&amp;rsquo;t be viewing any personal information unless they are obliged to do so. They treat it fairly well, and don&amp;rsquo;t generally release the information unless it becomes absolutely necessary. Companies like google even take it to the court to not release this information.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;So there is big &amp;lsquo;shift&amp;rsquo; towards the &amp;lsquo;cloud&amp;rsquo; in the industry nowadays. Everyone has started to provide (really good) server based services, whether its for your contacts, documents, email, pictures, storage and even the more niche things like your browser favorites, your search history, things like notes, snippets, your friends and their friends.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of the companies providing these services have a pretty clear privacy policy, which basically states that they won&amp;rsquo;t be viewing any personal information unless they are obliged to do so. They treat it fairly well, and don&amp;rsquo;t generally release the information unless it becomes absolutely necessary. Companies like google even take it to the court to not release this information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, at the end of the day, your information is with a company and it is in the hands of that company to decide what to do with it. You have absolutely no control over it. At a lot of places, it is replicated across machines for disaster recovery, and might never ever get physically deleted. If you read Google&amp;rsquo;s privacy policy, it does not say that it deletes everything you tell it to delete! Yahoo&amp;rsquo;s privacy policy is similar, but have more clearly defined that it takes 90 days to delete your data, but some of it might be in their archives forever. So if you delete an email that you don&amp;rsquo;t like, chances are, it can be brought back to life with enough motivation to do so. Also, despite of the best intentions, information has been leaked numerous times even by respectable companies.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I just want to delete an email and never think that its still there somewhere. This is not possible anymore. So, before you use any online service, be prepared to realize that there is a slight chance it will become public.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded></item><item><title>You have been pre-approved for identity theft!</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-10-24-you-have-been-pre-approved-for-identity-theft/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:49:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-10-24-you-have-been-pre-approved-for-identity-theft/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Talking all about saving paper and things like that, I noticed my mailbox gets totally spammed with credit card offers and such, which I have never ever used. Besides the annoyance that you have to shred those &amp;ldquo;offers&amp;rdquo; so that nobody misuses them, they also fill up the mailbox and make a big mess.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of those companies get the details from credit reporting agencies. There is now a number you can call that will stop the credit agencies from giving out this information:&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Talking all about saving paper and things like that, I noticed my mailbox gets totally spammed with credit card offers and such, which I have never ever used. Besides the annoyance that you have to shred those &amp;ldquo;offers&amp;rdquo; so that nobody misuses them, they also fill up the mailbox and make a big mess.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of those companies get the details from credit reporting agencies. There is now a number you can call that will stop the credit agencies from giving out this information:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;888-567-8688&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It seems to be like the do-not-call list for phone, but this one is for mail.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I just got mine removed, time shall tell how well it works.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3 id="comments"&gt;Comments&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (February 08, 2007):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hi,If you have a complaint about credit card, load or any financial institution, please postthem at this website:Review your credit card @ &lt;a href="https://www.pissedconsumer.comor"&gt;www.pissedconsumer.comor&lt;/a&gt; you can also check out our blog atBlog your complaint @ pissedconsumer.blogspot.comRegards,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (August 24, 2007):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh&amp;hellip; Thank you. I&amp;rsquo;ll use your links.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded></item></channel></rss>