Intentional Privacy

One of the harder things about the Internet is finding articles about a topic when you’re learning about it, especially if you don’t know the vocabulary that goes along with the topic. This page has links to current articles about information privacy that I thought were interesting. Enjoy!

Articles to read

The FTC has some great articles on privacy that you can access from this page: http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/topics/privacy-identity Another important page on their website explains what to do if you’re a victim of identity theft: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/consumers/deter.html

10 Things a Burglar Doesn’t Want you to know: http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/home-security/how-to-prevent-burglaries/

Alex Halderman, a professor and researcher at University of Michigan, and David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, talk about electronic voting at http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/03/02/1940236/in-theory-and-practice-why-internet-based-voting-is-a-bad-idea. Halderman also has a short video here: http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/03/10/2351259/prof-j-alex-halderman-tells-us-why-internet-based-voting-is-a-bad-idea-video

Blogs

• Krebs–a former reporter for The Washington Post–writes a blog on security: http://krebsonsecurity.com/
• How-to Geek writes about technology, and the articles are usually informative and easy to follow. Featured articles are here: http://www.howtogeek.com/t/features/. The Articles drop-down menu (in the menu bar) has sections such as “Windows” and “Mobile.”

Other resources

• Bureau of Justice statistics: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/
• Microsoft Safety & Security Center: http://www.microsoft.com/security/resources/default.aspx#Free-materials
• National Cyber Security Alliance: http://www.staysafeonline.org/
• Stop – Think – Connect: http://onguardonline.gov/topics/secure-your-computer
• The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) –  http://www.ic3.gov/media/IC3-Poster.pdf
• Urban Legends Reference Pages: http://snopes.com/
• US-CERT [Computer Emergency Readiness Team] has a great deal of information:
  • Resources – http://www.us-cert.gov/home-and-business/
  • E-mail lists – https://forms.us-cert.gov/maillists/
• Virus Bulletin comparative anti-virus list: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/test?recent=1