The World Privacy Forum has published a list of their top 10 opt-outs. Everything from your standard Do Not Call registry, to credit offers, bulk mail, FERPA, tracking cookies, and more. Many can be completed online with just a few clicks. Definitely worth the time and effort.
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Marvell’s SheevaPlug is a power-adapter-sized Linux machine featuring a GHz-class processor, Ethernet, and USB interfaces. Several companies are already marketing customized versions as cheap, low-power NAS, online backup, or streaming media solutions.
Project Honeypot is a pretty awesome distributed system for tracking and identifying spammers, spambots, harvesters, and dictionary attackers. There are many ways to participate, but my favorite applies to domain owners—all you have to do is donate an MX record for some subdomain you never plan to use. Check it out.
Rod Kovel is a lawyer who doesn’t understand a thing about technology, but that doesn’t stop him from writing about it! I’m not going to link to his uninformed flamebait here, but you can follow the links through Groklaw, whose analysis of the situation had my sides hurting from laughter. Don’t miss his epic rant on Konqueror linked in the comments.
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