Unable to sign in to make blog comments

I ran into an interesting problem last year: not being able to log in as myself on my own website to reply to commenters on blog posts on th...

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Sticky naming for anonymising participants

Earlier this year, Pat Thomson of "Patters" fame wrote a great blog post on how to anonymise participants via a naming schema. She...

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Making Messenger private

I have written before about Facebook privacy issues ( here ), and I have written recently about the insecurity of metadata in Messenger ( he...

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Facebook Messenger's metadata harvest

I am a dark user on Facebook: I don't use any public groups, I make no posts on my own profile page, and if anyone tags me, I ask them t...

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Cleaning up Facebook activity

In July of this year I posted on how to delete our old Facebook activity ( here ), but Facebook themselves moved on with new platform update...

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Opting out of Google's Ad Settings

I was reading the New Zealand Herald recently which had a great wee piece explaining that, if we had a Google email account, we could opt ...

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Disc data disposal

I am sure that you have all had to dispose of an old PC, a laptop or external drive, and been faced with removing your data from the HDD in...

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