Recent Links 01/29/2009

  • Get Emails Without Revealing Your Email Address

    Need to receive a message by email, but can’t (or don’t want to) give out your email address? whspr! gives you a URL to share instead.

    So what?

    Here’s an example: Say you want to advertise a job opening on Twitter, and you don’t want to share your company email address. Some applicants may not want to post a public @reply, and they can’t send you a direct message if you don’t already follow them. Include a whspr! URL, and they can reach you discreetly.

    tags: email, tools, privacy, security, utilities

  • When you normally delete your files in Mac OS X, the operating system is only forgetting where those particular files are placed, while the data still physically remains on the drive. Beginning with Mac OS 10.3, Apple enhanced its security by introducing the Secure Empty Trash feature, which follows the U.S. DoD pattern of overwriting data seven times.

    Permanent Eraser provides an even stronger level of security by implementing the Gutmann Method. This utility overwrites your data thirty-five times, scrambles the original file name, and truncates the file size to nothing before Permanent Eraser finally unlinks it from the system. Once your data has been erased, it can no longer be read through traditional means.

    tags: mac, software, security, tools, utilities

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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