Comcast cameras to start watching you?

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s ...

Anonymize BitTorrent Transfers with BTGuard

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

BTGuard reroutes all your BitTorrent traffic through their servers in Canada. This means that anyone who connects to you via BitTorrent, even the MPAA or RIAA, will see BTGuard’s IP, and not yours.BTGuard does not have any bandwidth or volume restrictions, and while we briefly tested the service (from Europe), ...

Clean and Infected File Sharing Programs

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Wondering if your favorite peer-to-peer file-swapping program has spyware bundled into it? Chances are good that it does. The information on this page is believed to be accurate. However, if any program is listed under the wrong section, please let me know immediately. If you know of a file sharing ...