Thursday, October 21, 2010

Making Different Passwords for Different Websites


Don’t want to use the same password with all your online accounts.  Its also impossible for you to remember so many different passwords. What do you do then?

The security team at Mozilla has released an interesting animated video that offers some worthy suggestions on how you may choose strong, easy-to-remember and yet different passwords for your various online accounts.
The idea is that you abbreviate a familiar phrase (for example, “May the force be with you” becomes “mtfbwy”), add some special characters on either sides of the word to make it extra strong (like #mtfbwy!) and then add few characters from the website name into the original password as either a suffix or prefix.
For instance, the above password could become #mtfbwy!AmZ for Amazon.com, #mtfbwy!FbK for Facebook, #mtfbwy!YtB for YouTube and so on.
Thus, the base password remains the same and the prefix, or the suffix, changes based upon the domain or the name of of the website where you are applying that password.
strong passwords

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Google remove out Naked photo of young Boy and Dead body image from Street View

Google’s photo-mapping service Street View has been quite controversial in last few days.The Street View Service launched in a few more places, Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica recently .Users flogging to view the new imagery, though, got to see more than cute penguins.In the First case, three-year-old Louis was photographed going to the toilet with his trousers down, helped by his mother or nanny by Google's camera while it took pictures of roads in Britain for the search engine's Street View service. In the Second instance images of two dead bodies left in the streets one in Rio de Janeiro and the other in Belo Horizonte.



However, Google moved quickly and the images have been removed within an hour of being alerted by an internet user. The images have now been replaced by a black screen, like Google always does with offending Street View images.Google quoted "For us, privacy and user choice remain paramount. This is why we have put in place tools so that if people see what they believe to be inappropriate, they can report them to us using the simple tools and the images will be quickly removed. We apologise for any inadvertent concern this may have caused."


Claire Rowlands, 25, was shocked and horrified to see a picture of her nude son backside while he was butt naked in his grandmother's garden in Walkden shown on Google Street View, available for the whole Internet audience to see.

The registration plate of the car was blurred as shown above, on the driveway of the house in Greater Manchester, England, but little Louis's wearing nothing was uncensored.Though their software automatically blurs license plates on cars, it cannot distinguish human bodies.

Dead body images showed a partly-covered body lying on the side  in Rio de Janeiro, and the other showed a covered body near police cars in the city of Belo Horizonte. The images were first published by a Brazilian newspaper and the news has spread rapidly online. Now, if you click the links Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte  to see the locations on Street View, Google only shows a black screen, instead.

Google after removing the images from Street View Brazil stated "We take issues around inappropriate content in our products very seriously, and we removed the images quickly after being notified. For us, privacy and user choice remain paramount. This is why we have put in place tools so that if people see what they believe to be inappropriate, they can report them to us using the simple tools and the images will be promptly removed."