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The Orwellian Present

June 26, 2013

1984 was not meant to be an instruction manual

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As you probably know by now 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked. There’s a good chance that includes yours. CHANGE IT NOW! LinkedIn unfortunately has not made it easy to change your password. Here’s how.

  1. Visit www.linkedin.com, and log-in with your usual details
  2. Once logged-in, hover over your name in the top right-hand corner of the screen, and select ‘Settings‘ from the menu
  3. You may be asked to log-in again at this point
  4. On the next screen, click the ‘Account‘ button which is near the bottom of the page
  5. Under the ‘Email & Password’ heading, you will find a link to change your password

UPDATE: If you want to find out if your password was 1 of the 6,5 million passwords leaked go here:  LeakedIn.org

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It’s not about the privacy

26 May 2010

The privacy concerns of the netizens of the world is probably the defining groundswell of 2010. And the 2 big players – Facebook & the big G – keep stumbling from one PR blunder into the next. As many commentators have said, the open nature of the Neb has landed society in completely new territory […]

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