Using Twitme plugin for wordpress? What the author didn’t tell you about your privacy.

If you are a WordPress user and you use the plug-in “Twitme” to automatically post any new blog entries to your WordPress account, then there is something you need to know.

It is unwritten law that if you are going to collect someone’s personal information through an application, or web application that you will notify them accordingly.

Unfortunately, not everyone follows this unwritten law, which is now standard and considered a moral obligation of website, and application authors and publishers. Here we take a look at one good example of this standard being ignored from a popular plug-in for WordPress, “Twitme”. Continue Reading

Evading Keyloggers – Scissor Method (Brute Copy and Paste)

This method of evading key loggers utilizes a method I dub the “The Scissor Method™ ” which takes advantage of my “Scissor Keyboard™”. And, just like Stephen Colbert, I now own the rights to those phrases.

If you’re certain that there is a potential application on your computer, be it at work, at home, or you just don’t trust the computer at the local internet cafe you’ve stopped at, this method may be of interest to you. Please note that this is not for the faint of heart or faint of patience, as it is by far one of the most tedious ways to take the cake from under Mr. Admin’s nose.

This method will utilize the clipboard to bypass key loggers which listen for keys being pressed on the keyboard. Continue Reading