Indicator privacy is a useful indicator for Unity that gives a overview of the most important privacy settings.
You can quickly disable online search results in dash and recording of Zeitgeist activity, pretty handy if you don't want these features to be 'always on'.
To install Indicator privacy in Ubuntu 12.10, run the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch
pidgin privacy please is a pidgin plugin to stop spammers from annoying you. You can block messages from certain users, block messages from people who are not on your contact list and suppress repeated authorization requests.
The Wall Street Journal’s report on third party apps transmitting users’ names to online advertising companies and tracking databases in breach of Facebook’s own privacy rules and despite user privacy settings raises ongoing questions on when Facebook will give users absolute control over their privacy settings once and for all.
Continuing our discussion with Entrust CTO, Jon Callas, we spent a little time discussing the current level of privacy and personal security that most people have on the Internet.
It’s become something of a predictable phenomenon: an article, op-ed, or blog post will surface with an incendiary quote indicating that privacy is dead, or that Internet users have given up privacy with abandon. A slew of data is thrown around – often reporting on teenagers’ online habits – and a eulogy for privacy is [...]
On January 9, Canonical published in a security notice details about a GnuPG vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, GNU privacy guard could have been made to corrupt the keyring if it imported a specially crafted key.
It was discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled certain malformed key
Ubuntu Privacy Remix, a distribution which aims to provide an isolated working environment where sensitive data can be dealt safely, is now at version 10.04r3.According to the developers, the system installed on the computer running Ubuntu Privacy Remix remains untouched, as UPR is not intended for permanent installation on hard disk.Highlights of Ubuntu Privacy Remix 10.04r3:• The current di
Whenever the The Electornic Frontier Foundation (EFF) commends Ubuntu for "retrofitting operating systems to support privacy against local attackers" as a worthy objective, I'm inclined to sit up and take notice. Since Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04) these privacy setting have been integrated out of the box as a feature in the System Settings menu.
The upcoming operating system from Canonical, Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), has gotten a lot of negative publicity because of the problems that arose from the introduction of the Shopping and Amazon lens. The company has issued some clarifications of the matter.
The biggest concern of the Ubuntu's users is about priv... (read more)
Email this page
