DISCLAIMER: In no way am I saying illegally obtaining copyrighted media is right or wrong. In fact  this guide isn't as much of a guide for pirates as it is for anyone who is going to download a file of some sort off the internet. So here's the brought me to create this post. According to a user on Twitter, popular generally illegal file-sharing site The Pirate Bay stores IP addresses of users when they reg ...

[audio:http://paulshireytech.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The-Internet-Knows-Everything-About.mp3|titles=The Internet Knows Everything About You... Now What?] The internet is not a small world anymore. Facebook alone has close to 900 million users. Some people would almost argue to tell you that Facebook is the internet. There are also other popular social networks such as Twitter and Google+. Whateve ...

Listen to blog post [BETA] We've heard about metal wallets before. Some of them are actually fairly helpful at keeping things organized, but they also protect you from identity theft. If you've ever been worried about someone taking your wallet from you without noticing, that's not what you should be worrying about. If you have any plastic cards in your wallet (which you almost have to this day) then an ide ...

If you haven't already figured it out, Google is a huge company. Ever since the iPhone was released Google has been battling Apple to see who can become the most powerful tech company, and each day their stock prices go above one another. Google closed at $603.23 per share at the time of this post, and some believe that they could hit $1000 before 2012 ends. With all the money aside, Google is still a very ...

Boy, things have gotten so weird after SOPA, we just can't win, the government wants power in places where they have never needed power until now. If you guessed that they want to monitor everything that goes on Social Media, you're right. In my opinion, this goes against federal wiretapping laws but don't quote me on that because I'm most likely wrong. ...

When you use any online service, you are agreeing to a privacy policy and terms of use. Do you read these? I tend to skip over them for the most part, until questions like these come up. Online searches are something that people tend to wonder about. They may want to do research on a highly sensitive topic but are afraid that if someone is monitoring and sees that, they might not take it well. Wan ...

Ever get a link you just aren't sure about, Mashable has 5 great tools to make sure you aren't getting spammed. Full post at Mashable  ...

Over the years we have heard news stories about bad things happening to people due to something they did on Craigslist. These stories are few and far between, but it still happens which tends to worry some people. The fact of the matter is, any time you are doing business with a private buyer/seller that you don't know, it can end up not turning out well. Craigslist for the most part isn't moderated at all, ...

Wordpress is a popular blogging platform used by many, both on Wordpress hosted blogs and personally hosted blogs. It's a great and easy to use platform if you get it hosted by Wordpress, and a sure easy platform to install and configure if you host it on your own. Wordpress alone is very safe and secure, it's updated very frequently with new patches to iron out any possible security bugs. It would be very ...