Girding up your loins

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“Gird your loins”. It’s a delightful expression, albeit arcane, and one that I’ve never used in print before – which lead me to do some research on its origin, that took me away from the main thrust of this post – gosh it’s so...
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HTTPS Everywhere

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HTTPS Everywhere is produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted...
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Ghostery

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Ghostery is a free privacy browser extension for Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome. It enables its users to easily detect and block web bugs, that are objects embedded in a web page, invisible to the user, that allow the...
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Google Sharing

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Google already know lots about you: from your Google searches and use of Google maps – and via Google Analytics (used on many websites) they know about websites you’ve viewed that you didn’t even use Google to find. The easy-to-install googlesharing...
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