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Bookmarks for 2011-03-04

by Viviane on 03/04/2011

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Bookmarks for November 30th

by Viviane on 11/30/2009

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Bookmarks for October 21st through October 22nd

by Viviane on 10/22/2009

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These are my links for October 21st through October 22nd:

  • Mollena Williams Named Ms. SF Leather 2009 | San Francisco Bay Times – Originally from New York, Mo has been active in the BDSM community since 1996. She is a founding member of the Crowded Fire Theater Company and speaks at leather events across the U.S. on many kinkcentric topics. Over the next year, Mo will be at every major leather event in the Bay Area and will produce several fundraising events to benefit Bay Area non-profits organizations. Mo plans to travel extensively and, in March 2010, will be competing for the title of International Ms. Leather here in San Francisco.
  • NYS Updates Rape Kit, For the First Time in 20 Years | WNYC – For the first time in 20 years, New York is overhauling the way it collects forensic evidence from sexual assault victims. They found the rape kit needed to be updated to include more areas of the body for possible DNA collection. Evidence will also be gathered in a different sequence, from head to toe so it's not destroyed.
  • Two Yale Law Grads Settle Suit Against Once-Anonymous Online Critics | ABA Journal – Law News Now – Two graduates of Yale Law School have settled their defamation lawsuit against several online critics who wrote nasty comments about them on the law school discussion board AutoAdmit.
  • Rape Is a Pre-Existing Condition? The Heartlessness of the Health Insurance Industry Exposed | Health and Wellness | AlterNet – Some women have contacted the Investigative Fund to say they were deemed ineligible for health insurance because they had a pre-existing condition as a result of a rape, such as post traumatic stress disorder or a sexually transmitted disease. Other patients and therapists wrote in with allegations that insurers are routinely denying long-term mental health care to women who have been sexually assaulted.
  • The Daisy Dick Strap-on/Strap-off rope harness | Feel the Love – I spent the entire weekend on into tonight mucking with it and ended up making a decorative dick harness that can be taken off, reused, and even washed (theoretically). It can be sized to custom fit any body. The centerpiece knot is a modified doubled up version of the Good Luck Knot, which can be seen here.
  • The Gender Illusion | jaysays.com | – Caster outwardly threatens the gender illusion with her deep voice, masculine build and female identity. Because of her amazing athleticism she is now scrutinized and labeled in an attempt to disenfranchise her from her own identity. The boundaries of her gender and the legitimacy of her very existence are being judged by people who have no way of accomplishing such a task.
  • Judge shoots down challenge to Craigslist erotic services • The Register – The ruling by US District Judge John F. Grady is good news not only for Craigslist but for any US-based website that accepts comments, photos, or other types of user-submitted content. The 22-page decision made it clear that a provision in the CDA, or Communications Decency Act, fully immunizes the site for user-supplied ads even when they "provide" contact details for prostitutes and brothels.
  • KinkForAll (aka. KinkCamp) / KinkForAllSanFrancisco – KinkForAll San Francisco will be the first sexuality unconference of its kind in the Bay Area! Imagine what would be possible if you combined TED Talks with BarCamp. Welcome to KinkForAll! Now, get ready to change the world. Don't worry, it's actually not very difficult, and it's a lot of fun. icon smile Bookmarks for October 21st through October 22nd
  • WordPress › WordPress Exploit Scanner « WordPress Plugins – This plugin searches the files on your website, and the posts and comments tables of your database for anything suspicious. It also examines your list of active plugins for unusual filenames.
  • WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release – We have also been working on trying to make WordPress as secure as possible and during this process we have identified a number of security hardening changes that we thought were worth back-porting to the 2.8 branch so as to get these improvements out there and make all your sites as secure as possible.

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AddThis.com Widget Privacy Warning

by Viviane on 10/09/2008

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button1 bm AddThis.com Widget Privacy Warning

I used to use the AddThis bookmarking widget, because it let users add content to many different services and didn’t look too cluttered.

My friend JC forwarded me an email from the WWWAC list. Addthis was bought by ClearSpring last month. Starting yesterday today, they are now slipping a ClearSpring Flash Tracker Object into all your pages. Like all flash trackers, these use cookie-busting LSOs to track users across all websites that utilize AddThis or ClearSpring technologies:

These cookies are not visible within user’s normal privacy options windows in their browsers and can not be cleared by using the browser’s Clear Private Data (Firefox) and similar privacy options. These cookies also work across all browsers on the machine as Flash stores these LSOs in a single location.

There’s more info at JohnHaller.com. He’s the author of the Portable Firefox program.

I’ve removed the widget from my blog and Lolita Wolf‘s blog, and suggest you to do the same.

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Why You Should Turn Gmail s SSL Feature On Now (Webmonkey)

by Viviane on 08/22/2008

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Let’s talk security and why you should take advantage of Gmail’s recent SSL feature, and why you might want to be careful using other non-SSL webmail services.

But first, make sure your connection is secured using SSL.

How do you know a connection is secured by SSL? The handy “s” after “http” will tell you. For example, https://mail.google.com is encrypted while http://mail.google.com is not. You can force an encryption by adding the “s” yourself, or by turning on “Always use https” from the Browser Connection settings of your Gmail account.

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As soon as I read this, I turned on SSL security: Settings | General | Browser Connection | Always Use https.

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I’m not a doctor, I just fly with medical devices to confuse you.

by Viviane on 08/19/2008

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This is what happens when Boymeat travels:

Seeing as it would be a short weekend, I decided to pack light and for once travel with carry-on luggage. This meant no whips, no knives, no canes, or any other typical weapon-like item I would normally bring along. In fact, I only brought one sex toy – a speculum.

Due to an amazing thunderstorm that spontaneously rolled into NYC at 5 PM on the dot, my plane was delayed 4 hours before eventually being canceled. During that delay, I went back and forth the security gates 3 times to have a cigarette to squash my ever growing frustration.

Which meant the TSA had a total of 4 opportunities to figure out what in gods name I had in my bag.

Comedy, thus, ensued.

Attempt #1
TSA – Um, what is that?
Me – It’s a speculum.
TSA – Huh?
Me – It’s used to open things up.
TSA – Like what?
Me – *stared at her blankly*
TSA – *shaking her head* Go.

Attempt #2
TSA – Isn’t this…?
Me – Yes, it’s a speculum.
TSA – Are you a doctor?
Me – Nope.
TSA – I mean this is used for… you’re a doctor right?
Me – Nope.
TSA – Then why do you…?
Me – *smiled at her*
TSA – OooooooooooK. Go on.

Attempt #3
Me – I know what you’re looking at. It’s a speculum. I’ve been through this already with some of your colleagues.
TSA #1 – Hey, wait, I know what this is… it’s a…
Me – Yes, it’s a speculum.
TSA #2 – Oh, right, it’s for opening…
TSA #1 – Noses, right?
Me – Um, nope.
TSA #2 – I… I’m not even gonna ask.

Attempt #4
Me – Before you even ask, it’s a speculum.
TSA – *smiles and waves me off*

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links for 2008-06-04

by Viviane on 06/04/2008

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Crossing Borders with Laptops and PDAs (Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram)

by Viviane on 05/15/2008

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Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you’re entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I and others have written a letter to Congress urging it to investigate and regulate this practice.

But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other borders, too. You might not like it, but it’s a fact. So how do you protect yourself?

. . . So your best defence is to clean up your laptop. A customs agent can’t read what you don’t have. You don’t need five years’ worth of email and client data. You don’t need your old love letters and those photos (you know the ones I’m talking about). Delete everything you don’t absolutely need. And use a secure file erasure program to do it. While you’re at it, delete your browser’s cookies, cache and browsing history. It’s nobody’s business what websites you’ve visited. And turn your computer off – don’t just put it to sleep – before you go through customs; that deletes other things. Think of all this as the last thing to do before you stow your electronic devices for landing. Some companies now give their employees forensically clean laptops for travel, and have them download any sensitive data over a virtual private network once they’ve entered the country. They send any work back the same way, and delete everything again before crossing the border to go home. This is a good idea if you can do it.

If you can’t, consider putting your sensitive data on a USB drive or even a camera memory card: even 16GB cards are reasonably priced these days. Encrypt it, of course, because it’s easy to lose something that small. Slip it in your pocket, and it’s likely to remain unnoticed even if the customs agent pokes through your laptop. If someone does discover it, you can try saying: “I don’t know what’s on there. My boss told me to give it to the head of the New York office.” If you’ve chosen a strong encryption password, you won’t care if he confiscates it.

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links for 2008-05-07

by Viviane on 05/07/2008

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links for 2008-04-14

by Viviane on 04/14/2008

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Nipple Rings Fall Foul of Airport Check (Reuters)

by Jefferson on 03/30/2008

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A woman who claims she was ordered by federal airport screeners to remove her nipple rings with pliers demanded an apology from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration on Thursday.

Mandi Hamlin, 37, also called for an investigation into the February 24 incident in Lubbock, Texas, saying that snickering male agents violated TSA policy by forcing her to remove the jewelry.

“I felt surprised, embarrassed, humiliated, scared and angry,” Hamlin told reporters at the offices of her Los Angeles attorney, Gloria Allred.

“This situation was totally out of control. I will not sit quietly. No one deserves to be treated this way.”

The TSA, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security that was set up after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, said it was investigating the incident but that agents were trained to search people with piercings in “sensitive areas” with dignity and respect.

“TSA is well aware of terrorists’ interest in hiding dangerous items in sensitive areas of the body, therefore we have a duty to the American public to resolve any alarm we discover,” the agency said in a written statement.

The TSA said incidents of female terrorists hiding explosives in “sensitive areas” were on the rise and provided a picture of a “bra bomb” that was used in training its agents.

Allred said the incident began when Hamlin, who has a number of piercings, set off a hand-held metal detector and told a TSA officer that her nipple rings were the problem.

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China Subway Apologizes Over Leaked Kiss Video

by Jefferson on 01/27/2008

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Shanghai subway authorities apologized to a Chinese couple videotaped hugging and kissing on a subway platform and dismissed an employee involved in uploading the video which drew thousands of hits, state media said on Friday.

The company found three staff were responsible for taking and uploading the video. Two had already left the company and the other was dismissed after the incident caused “public uproar”, Xinhua news agency quoted authorities with Shanghai Metro Operation Co Ltd. as saying.

“We have wrapped up an internal investigation and found the videotape was uploaded by people who had worked for Shanghai metro,” they said.

“We made formal apologies and are negotiating with the couple over compensation.”

The three-minute footage was uploaded online earlier this week, attracting thousands of hits on sites such as YouTube and sina.com.

Authorities have credited the installation of hundreds of thousands of closed-circuit security cameras in large Chinese cities for helping to reduce crime in recent years.

But Chinese legal experts and scholars have called for more robust privacy legislation to regulate the use of video footage and impose penalties on its abuse.

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links for 2008-01-08

by Viviane on 01/08/2008

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links for 2007-12-10

by Viviane on 12/10/2007

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links for 2007-12-03

by Viviane on 12/03/2007

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