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Pwned? What's Next? T he first step in fixing anything is knowing that it is broken. On the internet, a "break" in your security will not always be reported to you. Sometimes you have to take the initiative. Fortunately, you can employ a free detective to discover email data breaches. Thanks to Troy Hunt ! (from Wikipedia) Created by Troy Hunt in 2013, and since incorporated as an optional extension in Firefox and Chrome, haveibeenpwned.com is yours to use free of charge.  According to Wikipedia , Have I Been Pwned? ( HIBP , with "Pwned" pronounced like "poned" [2] ) is a website that allows internet users to check if their personal data has been compromised by data breaches . The service collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps and pastes containing information about billions of leaked accounts, and allows users to search for their own information by entering their username or email address. Users can also sign up t...

  Sad that G+ has gone? Could be worse. From Facebook: Julian Bond shared a link . Founding Member, Google+ Meetup · May 19 at 11:49 PM Sad that G+ has gone? Could be worse. You could have a Huawei phone and be blocked from Google updates. Or even worse than that, be a kidnapped Huawei Princess. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/19/google-huawei-trump-blacklist-report https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/world/canada/huawei-meng-wanzhou-arrest.html ... See More theguardian.com Google blocks Huawei access to Android updates after blacklisting Comments Terry McNeil Holy shit, my daughter has a Huawei. I'll have to let her know this. Julian Bond It's not entirely clear yet the effect on existing phones. This may be about full release updates for the OS (eg from 8.1 to 9.0) rather than just not getting a Maps update. And to...

What's the Difference? image by Michael Podger , designer, West Yorkshire "Dew on a Web" Clear Web The "Clear Web" is the experience you are enjoying now. Searchable using common search engines, sites here are reliable and get millions of hits over time. Privacy? Forget it. Your IP address is often tracked by advertisers and others eager to see your preferences and sell merchandise or opinion. Optionally, "Private" versions of popular browsers limit this activity by deleting information between browser sessions, but while you are live online browser plugins such as Flash, RealPlayer, Quicktime and others can be manipulated into revealing your IP address. Dark Web (aka "DarkNet") Anonymity is the whole point of the Dark Web. Providing you do not install plugins or addons, the Tor browser that you will be using to navigate the Dark Web bounces your activity all over the web so that your original IP address is unt...

Scott Scowcroft People Left Behind on G+ Apr 25, 2019 Something I wasn't expecting. I am still able to download my Gplus Communities and Posts, and a few photos. No videos, however. Janne Granström What this is? 2w Scott Scowcroft Google+ Exporter was/is software that allowed you to download your Google Plus profile, posts, community posts and more. It was a substitute to Google's "Take Out." Presumably, everything GPlus was going to disappear as of April 2nd, so that's why I was surprised Google+ Exporter is still working. 2w Rupert +1 + Scott Scowcroft it wouldn’t work anymore on consumer G+ profiles, though I don’t see why it would stop working for gsuite profiles 2w Add a comment...

For those keeping track... From Facebook's Google+ Meetup public group and member Julian Bond Founding Member · April 26 at 11:36 AM Various bits of G+ are finally disappearing. MyAccount. Personal Info, People and Sharing. Tagline and Bio has disappeared. Privacy controls have changed. Everything set to private until you enable it. It's still not clear to me how much of this is ever shown and where. https://myaccount.google.com Very little of Takeout left. https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/circles,plus_one,plus_communities,stream,profile Is now almost completely empty. G+Photos from posts still seems to be complete. https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ 7 Al Mac, Christian Nalletamby and 5 others 2 Comments Seen by 89 Like Comment Share Comments Christian Nalletamby Wonder what they'll do with "contacts" info. I had all birthdays displayed in "Calendar", mo...