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Protecting your online privacy

November 22, 2017 Chuck McAndrew Leave a comment

Which steps you take to protect yourself online depend entirely on your personal threat model. I have tried to select…

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Posted in: patron programming, Privacy, Professional Development, security, Technology instruction, VPNs

Online Self Defense

November 17, 2017 Chuck McAndrew Leave a comment

Inspired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Surveillance Self Defense, I have put together a five part course covering privacy and…

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Posted in: patron programming, Privacy, security, Technology instruction, Uncategorized

How large is your attack surface?

August 25, 2017 Chuck McAndrew Leave a comment

Attack surface is a term used in computer security to describe your vulnerabilities. It is simply the ways that you…

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Posted in: security, Technology instruction

Filing bug reports

July 14, 2017 Chuck McAndrew Leave a comment

We have all had the frustration of software not working the way we want it to. Maybe it is an…

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Posted in: coding, security, Technology instruction

Staying Current

June 20, 2017 Chuck McAndrew Leave a comment

At a recent training that Mark and I did for the NHLA Paralibrarians section, we were ask a question about…

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Posted in: Privacy, Professional Development, security, Technology instruction, Uncategorized, workflow

Passwords

June 2, 2017 Chuck McAndrew Leave a comment

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is a US Government organization which does many thing including defining password standards…

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Posted in: Privacy, security, Technology instruction

The Less Than Typical Subject for a Library Tech Class

May 28, 2017 Mark Glisson Leave a comment

Every Tuesday, except the last Tuesday of the month, I offer a tech class on various subjects. Not unusually, the…

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Posted in: Home Network, Technology instruction Filed under: Comcast

KeePass

May 12, 2017 Chuck McAndrew 1 Comment

Recently, I was browsing https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and found that one of my old email addresses had been involved in a data breach.…

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Posted in: Privacy, security, Technology instruction, workflow

NHLA Spring Conference 2017 – ITS Roundtable Discussion Notes

May 7, 2017 Mark Glisson Leave a comment

At this year’s 2017 NHLA Spring Conference I participated in an ITS Roundtable session which featured a number of interesting…

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Posted in: Technology instruction Filed under: Bluemic, Consumer Reports, SnagIt, YouTube

VPN’s for privacy

April 7, 2017 Chuck McAndrew Leave a comment

With congress rolling back FCC privacy rules on ISPs, there has been a lot of interest in ways that you…

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Posted in: Privacy, security, Technology instruction, VPNs

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Chuck McAndrew

Chuck is a librarian and digital privacy advocate. He works to promote access to information, privacy, and intellectual freedom within libraries. He has worked as an auto mechanic, a sword maker, and served as a US Marine. He strongly believes in the power of technology to empower individuals and works to make it more accessible to everyone.

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