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		<title>Dogfish Head Brewery Mentioned in TIME</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Quillen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our client Dogfish Head Brewery located in Milton, Delaware was mentioned in an article on TIME this weekend. Here&#8217;s an snippet:
 It is uncertain how fast craft beers will continue to grow, but Herz said the indicators are good. After a shakeout in the mid 1990s, the nation&#8217;s remaining 1,400 craft brewers have a stronger [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our client <a href="http://www.dogfish.com" target="_blank">Dogfish Head Brewery</a> located in Milton, Delaware was <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1826878,00.html" target="_blank">mentioned in an article on TIME</a> this weekend. Here&#8217;s an snippet:</p>
<blockquote style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 3px auto; padding: 3px; background: #eeeeee none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"><p> <em>It is uncertain how fast craft beers will continue to grow, but Herz said the indicators are good. After a shakeout in the mid 1990s, the nation&#8217;s remaining 1,400 craft brewers have a stronger hold on shelf space and restaurant menus. Anheuser-Busch and Coors are making their own line of full-flavored beers. And the Brewers Association&#8217;s book &#8220;Start Your Own Brewery&#8221; has sold more than 1,000 copies. </em><em>&#8220;A brewery in every town is not so crazy to think about in the future,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It all goes back to the movement of consuming products that are locally produced. </em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Who would have ever thought that Denver, Colo., would become the Napa Valley of beer?&#8221; she said. More than 60 breweries lie within in a 100-mile radius of Denver. </em></p>
<p><em>Their small size gives craft brewers the freedom to explore the outer limits of beer, and they are being rewarded by consumers who value good flavor, said Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Del. </em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;This hasn&#8217;t happened because of some half-billion dollar advertising campaign on behalf of the big brewers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s truly the consumer becoming self-educated. </em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s a kind of a blue-collar connoisseurship. Anybody can afford to buy the world&#8217;s best beers. But if you wanted to buy a bottle of the world&#8217;s best wine, you&#8217;d have to spend thousands of dollars.&#8221; </em></p></blockquote>
<p>Look for a brand new feature rich custom website for <a href="http://www.dogfish.com" target="_blank">Dogfish Head Brewery</a> this Fall. Meanwhile head to downtown <a href="http://www.downtownrehoboth.com" target="_blank">Rehoboth Beach, DE</a> and enjoy food and drink at the Brewpub, or <a href="http://dogfishbrewerytours.eventbrite.com/?s=911870" target="_blank">take a tour</a> in their Milton facility.<a href="http://www.dogfish.com" target="_blank"> </a></p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1826878,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1826878,00.html</a></p>
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		<title>Avoid Identity Theft Pt 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Quillen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I posted an article dealing with internet security and protecting your identity:
http://www.delawarewebdesigner.com/rants-raves/protecting-your-computer.htm
http://www.delawarewebdesigner.com/blurbs/the-information-you-should-never-share-online.htm
Recently I have been advising clients on certain basic steps they can take to ensure they do not become a victim of identity theft. It has happened to me before, and it is a complete pain in the ass to reverse [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A while back, I posted an article dealing with internet security and protecting your identity:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.delawarewebdesigner.com/rants-raves/protecting-your-computer.htm" title="Delaware Web Designer">http://www.delawarewebdesigner.com/rants-raves/protecting-your-computer.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.delawarewebdesigner.com/blurbs/the-information-you-should-never-share-online.htm" title="Delaware Web Designer">http://www.delawarewebdesigner.com/blurbs/the-information-you-should-never-share-online.htm</a></p>
<p>Recently I have been advising clients on certain basic steps they can take to ensure they do not become a victim of identity theft. It has happened to me before, and it is a complete pain in the ass to reverse everything. Fortunately I caught on fast on the day it was happening (while my bank account was being drained, when 5 figures goes to 2 you know something&#8217;s up.) and was able to reverse and resolve the situation in 2 days, recover my money and my good name. I did however have to obtain all new bank account, credit card numbers, checks and the like. Others haven&#8217;t been so lucky.<br />
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<p><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft" target="_blank">Identity theft</a></strong> is the fastest growing cyber crime in the <strong>world</strong>. The Internet is still a very young technology, and all things considered, still somewhat of a lawless frontier. With so many ways to remain anonymous online, its easy for people to hack, steal, and dupe people out of personal information such as financial info, credit card numbers, bank accounts, or even simple address and phone number. Almost 99% of the time, unless its easily traceable and/or major damage, law enforcement does not have either the time or resources to help you.</p>
<p>If you think you are safe while using services and sites like Paypal, Ebay, Amazon, or online banking, think again.</p>
<p>The most common way people lose their identity is through an email phishing method. Occasionally you will get an email that seems legitimate from a well known company, like Bank of America, Paypal, WaMu, or Hotmail. Check the &#8216;From:&#8217; field, the email address looks real. Hmm, so you open it up, and it reads something like: </p>
<p>&#8220;Please update your personal information for our records&#8221; &#8230; with a lot of other corporate sounding reading material. Typically followed with &#8220;http://www.somecompany.com/login&#8221;. It&#8217;s second nature for us IT people to just click delete, but most people will believe this is a real email, and click whatever link it tells you to click. A simple hover on the link with the cursor will display where that link ACTUALLY links to, so, while the link appears to be &#8220;http://www.somecompany.com/login&#8221;, its actually masked and ends up at a hackers website. You can easily tell by hovering on the link, because most fraudulent links will look like jibberish or not even have the correct parent domain.</p>
<p>For example, &#8216;http://somecompany.secure.foo.bar.2.com/login/index.php&#8217; would be the actual destination of the link in the email. What does this mean? This means that, while you think you may be clicking a link from SomeCompany, and going to SomeCompany&#8217;s website, you are actually being directed to another place, most likely the site has been setup to look just like where you intended (or thought) you were going in the first place. What happens then is you try to log in on the fake website, and it tells you login failed, check your password. Really, what just happened was you sent your login credentials to the hacker running the site, who then goes and uses it to log into your account at the real website, change your password, and bam you just lost your account to someone who is going to do whatever they want with it. This is quite common with PayPal and eBay, as I have seen many emails like this (I frequently use both services).</p>
<h3>So, how can I protect myself?</h3>
<p>There are a few simple steps you can do to protect yourself.</p>
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<li><strong>Email</strong><br />If you receive an email from a company advising you to update account information, or to verify your identity, the best thing to do is go directly to their website (don&#8217;t click any links in the email, do this yourself in the browser), log in, and check your account yourself. Especially for something like PayPal, this is the quickest way to determine if any account activity has occurred or administrative messages/alerts are pending for you.</li>
<li><strong>Validate the Website</strong><br />If you wind up at a login page, check to see that it is SSL secured (most, if not all, are) who issued it, and what the URL is. If something seems strange, don&#8217;t do anything further. Your best bet, like above, is to go to the parent site and log in from there. Don&#8217;t follow any links from other sites or search engines which can easily be spoofed.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.delawarewebdesigner.com/blurbs/choosing-a-web-browser.htm" target="_blank" title="Delaware Web Design">Use a Secure Browser</a></strong><br />By default, most users use Internet Explorer 6 or 7. You can take additional steps to protect yourself from various types of hacks by using <a href="http://www.delawarewebdesigner.com/blurbs/choosing-a-web-browser.htm" target="_blank" title="Delaware Web Design">Mozilla Firefox or Opera browsers</a>. For example, when visiting a secure web site, Opera encrypts data using either SSL 3 or TLS, both of which are highly secure encryption protocols. It then adds information about the site&#8217;s security to the address bar. Users may also click a button on the address bar to check if a web site is a fraudulent or &#8220;phishing&#8221; site. Both companies ensure the browser actively protects you, and are extremely quick to patch any vulnerabilities found. In comparison, Internet Explorer was left to sit over a year before receiving any security patching or updates.</li>
<li><strong>Invest in Software</strong><br />You should have some form of protection on your computer to guard against malware, spyware, and adware. Like phishing, these are other methods that hackers use to not only get personal information, but gain backdoor access to your PC and execute commands. Typically they include keystroke loggers and other things that retrieve data and send it back to the source. Norton and Symantec are the most &#8216;known&#8217; names, but there are more alternatives out there that surpass both. <a href="http://us.trendmicro.com/us/home/" target="_blank">Trend Micro</a>, <a href="http://www.lavasoft.com/" target="_blank">LavaSoft</a>, <a href="http://free.grisoft.com/" target="_blank">AVG</a>, and <a href="http://www.pandasecurity.com/usa/" target="_blank">Panda Security</a> all are excellent solutions for anti-virus and *ware handling. Add in a firewall like <a href="http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/home.jsp" target="_blank">ZoneAlarm</a>, and you&#8217;ve stepped up security by a huge degree. Don&#8217;t simply rely on Windows Security or Windows Firewall (Windows XP), it simply cannot protect you enough.</li>
<li><strong>Consider a Monitoring Service</strong><br />Services like <a href="http://www.lifelock.com/" target="_blank">LifeLock</a> will protect you against someone attempting to use your name or social security number in order to do things like apply for credit at a bank. <a href="http://www.lifelock.com/" target="_blank">LifeLock</a> is awesome.</li>
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<p>I will have part 2 ready in a few weeks, where I will cover software usage, and what software to <strong>not</strong> use to protect your identity.</p>
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		<title>More Inclind Delaware Web Design Love at DesignSnack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Quillen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They just can&#8217;t get enough of us at DesignSnack.com!
The last FOUR submitted websites are now on the frontpage of approved featured websites. Espuma Restaurant, Delaware State Fair, Wilgus Associates &#8211; Delaware Real Estate, and BayBall Classic were well received.
More to come!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They just can&#8217;t get enough of us at <a href="http://www.designsnack.com" target="_blank">DesignSnack.com</a>!</p>
<p>The last <strong>FOUR</strong> submitted websites are now on the frontpage of approved featured websites. <a href="http://www.espumarestaurant.com" target="_blank" title="Espuma Restaraunt - website by Inclind Inc Delaware Web Designer">Espuma Restaurant</a>, <a href="http://www.delawarestatefair.com" target="_blank" title="Delaware State Fair - website by Inclind Inc Delaware Web Designer">Delaware State Fair</a>, <a href="http://www.wilgusassociates.com" target="_blank" title="Wilgus Associates - Delaware Real Estate - website by Inclind Inc Delaware Web Designer">Wilgus Associates &#8211; Delaware Real Estate</a>, and <a href="http://www.bayballclassic.org" target="_blank" title="BayBall Classic - website by Inclind Inc Delaware Web Designer">BayBall Classic</a> were well received.</p>
<p>More to come!</p>
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		<title>Inclind Featured on DesignSnack.com and Screenalicious</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Quillen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update on the blog I posted a few days ago. Inclind sites are making the rounds on various design showcase websites.
American Portable, and CKY Alliance are now being featured on various websites, including designsnack.com and screenalicious.com.
It feels great that our clients websites make the rounds like this on top websites. For our clients this just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Update on the blog I posted a few days ago. Inclind sites are making the rounds on various design showcase websites.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.americanportable.com" target="_blank">American Portable</a>, and <a href="http://www.ckyalliance.com" target="_blank">CKY Alliance</a> are now being featured on various websites, including <a href="http://www.designsnack.com" target="_blank">designsnack.com</a> and <a href="http://www.screenalicious.com" target="_blank">screenalicious.com</a>.</p>
<p>It feels great that our clients websites make the rounds like this on top websites. For our clients this just adds to the traffic they receive, spreading the word of their service, product or existence on top of the hefty search engine optimization work we already do for them. We have the top graphics design team on the penninsula combined with the best application programmers in the area.</p>
<p>This bodes particularly well for the two projects that got featured, as <a href="http://www.americanportable.com" target="_blank">American Portable</a> is expanding around the nation every month with franchise operations from here to California. <a href="http://www.ckyalliance.com" target="_blank">CKY</a> is on the cusp of releasing their new album this Spring on their new label, RoadRunner Records. CKY has always done things their way, on their terms. Inclind knows just how to handle their web presence and coordinate it with marketing, web content, and the fans. Like all of our clients, they love us and we love them!</p>
<p>Want to be successful? </p>
<p>If you feel your website is bland, boring, or isn&#8217;t doing for you what you&#8217;d like it to do, <a href="http://www.inclind.com" target="_blank">contact us</a> or give us a call at (302) 856-2802 and talk with us.</p>
<p>Launched 3 websites, featured on design showcase sites, and Friday I turn 25. Doesn&#8217;t this week kick a little ass!</p>
<p>Keep on the lookout, Inclind is everywhere!</p>
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		<title>Inclind Inc Launches Wilgus Associates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Quillen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wilgus Associates, Inc. is a family owned and operated company specializing in insurance, Delaware real estate sales, property management and Delaware vacation rentals along the Delaware coast. Wilgus Associates has been serving clients for the past 60 years. Their professional staff offers friendly and efficient service. The agency has convenient locations in Bethany Beach, Georgetown [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wilgus Associates, Inc. is a family owned and operated company specializing in insurance, Delaware real estate sales, property management and Delaware vacation rentals along the Delaware coast. Wilgus Associates has been serving clients for the past 60 years. Their professional staff offers friendly and efficient service. The agency has convenient locations in Bethany Beach, Georgetown and Lewes.</p>
<p>The newly redesigned website, located at <a href="http://www.wilgusassociates.com" target="_blank">www.wilgusassociates.com</a>, has given Wilgus Associates a brighter, bolder look with easily recognizable divisions of their services allowing for a more user-friendly experience. Each division of the site has been streamlined to facilitate user’s specific needs during their online visits. The new website contains improved and concise contact forms for requests such as modifying your auto policy or reporting an auto claim, maintenance requests for homeowners, and rental reservation requests. In addition, searches for both Delaware real estate and Delaware vacation rentals are now available as well as information for local surrounding towns.</p>
<p>For more information on how <a href="http://www.inclind.com" target="_blank">Inclind, Inc</a> can boost your image, leads, team management, and sales, please call us at (302) 856-2802 or use <a href="http://www.inclind.com/contact.htm" target="_blank">our quick contact form</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Information You Should Never Share Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Quillen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a continuation of the post I created a couple days ago, I&#8217;d like to share this article with you written by the folks over at mint.com which reinforces some of the basic concepts I stated in my post. Like I said, protecting your online privacy is very important and should be taken seriously by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a continuation of the post I created a couple days ago, I&#8217;d like to share this article with you written by the folks over at <a href="http://www.mint.com" target="_blank">mint.com</a> which reinforces some of the basic concepts I stated in my post. Like I said, protecting your online privacy is very important and should be taken seriously by newbies or veterans of the internet when you submit any information on the web.</p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.mint.com" target="_blank">mint.com</a>:</p>
<p>According to a recent report by the <em>San Jose Mercury News</em>, <a href="http://www.sophos.com/security/topic/facebook.html">Sophos</a>, a Boston-based Internet security company, was able to acquire highly personal information from 40% of the nearly 200 Facebook users who chose to add “Freddi Staur” as a friend in their Facebook accounts.  Freddi Staur doesn’t exist, except as a toy on the desk of some Sophos employee.  The company created a fictional person on Facebook to illustrate how vulnerable people can be when using social networks.</p>
<p><span id="more-24"></span>Why is Mint bringing this story to you?  Well, securing your personal information on social networking sites isn’t only a matter of privacy.  It’s also an important step in preventing identity theft.  If you share personal information online, you make it easier for identity thieves to make off with your life story (and credit cards, and social security number, and so on) without a second thought.  Victims of identity theft can suffer significant financial losses, and can spend years working to “clear their name.”   Read any of <a href="http://www.mint.com/blog/train-wreck/tuesday-train-wreck-my-mom-stole-my-identity/">Identity Theft Horror Stories</a> our readers have shared with us… We don’t want to have this happen to you.</p>
<p>Secondly, as a new web service in the personal finance space, we’ve given a lot of thought to what we can do to make a web experience as private and anonymous as possible.  In fact, you’ll be able to register for Mint using only your email address, zip code and password.  And since we don’t share or sell your data with anyone, your privacy will be thoroughly protected, and TRUSTe verified.</p>
<p>We thought we should share with you what we know about how to evaluate and protect your privacy and identity online. The Freddi Staur story got us focused on the issues relative to the popular “social networks,” so let’s answer the big question:</p>
<blockquote><p>How do you protect your personal information while still enjoying the social and professional benefits that Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn have to offer?</p></blockquote>
<p>At Mint, we want you to understand:</p>
<ul>
<li>The information you should and shouldn’t share</li>
<li>How you can actively set limits on the information you do share, and</li>
<li>How these sites treat your information differently.</li>
</ul>
<h3><font color="#3366ff">The Information You Should Never Share Online</font></h3>
<p>Some information is so central to your personal safety and so revealing of your individual identity that you should never make it available on the public area of any website.  Think of these as the Three Off-Limit Facts about you:</p>
<ul>
<li>Your social security number</li>
<li>Your phone numbers</li>
<li>Your home address</li>
</ul>
<h3><font color="#3366ff">Information You May Choose to Provide Online</font></h3>
<p>Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and similar sites have become incredibly popular precisely because of their social factor: they help you stay in touch with friends or business contacts, and make new ones as well. To take advantage of their benefits, though, these services need you to share some personal information.  That’s where we throw the caution flag, because you have to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Understand the information you share with the site.</li>
<li>Understand what information the site will share by default and with whom.</li>
<li>Actively use controls the site provides to better protect your information.</li>
<li>Understand how the company providing the site will use your information themselves.</li>
</ul>
<h3><font color="#3366ff">Understand the information you share</font></h3>
<p>Sites typically ask for some personal information at two points:  registration and profile development. These sites typically require some or all of the following information from you to set up an account:</p>
<ul>
<li>Name</li>
<li>E-mail address</li>
<li>Zip code</li>
<li>Birth date</li>
<li>Gender</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1171/1336584467_d7e15acdf4_o.jpg"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1171/1336584467_4ed4f2e916_m.jpg" title="Facebook Registration Page" alt="Facebook Registration Page" height="184" width="195" /></a>     <a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1288/1336584423_35a9ff5a05_o.jpg"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1288/1336584423_47769df2df_m.jpg" title="LInkedIn Registration Page" alt="LInkedIn Registration Page" height="184" width="143" /></a>     <a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1286/1336584555_27bfb194e2_o.jpg"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1286/1336584555_aeeb85781b_m.jpg" title="MySpace Registration Page" alt="MySpace Registration Page" height="184" width="123" /></a></p>
<p>After registering, you’ll probably want to add information to your profile to get the most out of the site. After all, isn’t this “private profile” supposed to represent <em>you</em>? Many people often add a slew of other identifying bits after registration to flesh themselves out. Common additions like school and work locations, contact information, your friends, groups and networks you join, and personal interests and activities are all there to give your profile <em>personality</em>. Right? True, but be aware it’s giving your profile <em>publicity</em>, too.</p>
<p>And when you look across all the information you’ve shared, it’s pretty clear that any stranger with bad intentions — and access to this information — has a great head start in knowing who and where you are, and if you’re a high potential target for identity theft.  They know how to contact you, too, and what information they might use to lure you into slipping them some of the Three Off-Limit Facts that open the door to your financial life and personal security.</p>
<h3><font color="#3366ff">Understanding Your Options</font></h3>
<p>Each of the three sites we’ve highlighted takes a slightly a different approach to sharing your information, so we’ll look at each separately.</p>
<p><strong>Facebook</strong></p>
<p><strong>Default Settings:</strong>  Facebook’s information philosophy — and default setting — is to share almost everything that you’ve included in your Facebook account.  That means if you’ve never changed your privacy settings, your Facebook profile is shared with not only all your friends and groups, but also with everyone in every network you join.</p>
<p>That’s a lot of sharing.</p>
<p>Luckily, though, Facebook gives you options to limit that outlandish profile broadcasting. Here’s where to start reigning in your information.</p>
<p><strong>Information Control Options:</strong>  The good news is that unlike many social websites, Facebook provides their users with an arsenal of privacy control and settings.</p>
<p>When you sign into your Facebook profile, take a look at the upper right-hand corner of the page, and click on the “Privacy” link next to the “Logout” link:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1103/1337470428_a25181867e.jpg" title="Facebook Privacy Control Settings" alt="Facebook Privacy Control Settings" border="1" height="500" width="472" /></p>
<p>In this page, you have control over:</p>
<ul>
<li>Information you share in your profile</li>
<li>Information people see when they search for you</li>
<li>Information on actions you take with other people</li>
<li>Information available to others when you contact them</li>
<li>Privacy controls for applications you’ve added to your account</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Important Facebook privacy settings to note:</strong></p>
<p>Search settings:  By default, everyone can find your profile listing in a public search. This includes users on Facebook, and potentially people searching on Google, Yahoo, and MSN.</p>
<p>If you want to keep yourself searchable like this, you should strictly limit the information you’re leaving on that public listing. We highly recommend, though, that you don’t “go public” and instead uncheck the box “Allow anyone to see my public search listing.”</p>
<p>Profile settings: Here’s where you have control over the contact information you provide to other people.  If you’re in one or more of Facebook’s Networks, you have the option of either displaying your contact information to only your friends, or to everyone. Again, Mint recommends that you limit sharing to only your friends and that you specify “no one” can see your contact e-mail.</p>
<p>Are all of these settings giving you a headache?  Set your profile to “No Networks” and many of these settings will remain inactive. This makes it less likely that you will unknowingly share information you don’t want to provide to strangers.</p>
<p><strong>MySpace</strong></p>
<p><strong>Default Settings:</strong>  By default, people on MySpace can see when you’re online. Your profile and photo is also set to be viewable by everyone.</p>
<p><strong>Information Control Options:</strong>  MySpace’s privacy options are very limited, but changing three key settings can provide you with some important privacy protection:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1089/1337470062_4349e7244d.jpg" title="MySpace Privacy Control Settings" alt="MySpace Privacy Control Settings" border="1" height="253" width="500" /></p>
<ul>
<li>Online Now: By un-checking this box, other users won’t know when you’re actively on your account.</li>
<li>Profile Viewable By: By selecting “My Friends Only,” you limit the ability for strangers to find your personal information.</li>
<li>Photos: By un-checking this box, you prevent your photos from being emailed and shared by other users.</li>
</ul>
<p>You should be aware that MySpace does not have individual privacy controls for each section of information you provide.  Whenever you decide to add information to your MySpace profile, you should take extra care in deciding what you divulge.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1055/1336584777_2aa4198310.jpg" title="MySpace Basic Information Settings" alt="MySpace Basic Information Settings" border="1" height="295" width="500" /></p>
<p><strong>LinkedIn</strong></p>
<p><strong>Default Settings:</strong> By default, your LinkedIn public profile is set to display your full profile information.  That means any information you provided will be available publicly.  Thankfully, there are choices available to you to take control of your privacy.</p>
<p><strong>Information Control Settings:</strong>  LinkedIn provides you with much more control over the information you share with other users.  Unfortunately, these controls are scattered throughout the site.</p>
<p>To get started, click on the “Accounts &amp; Settings” link on the top right corner of LinkedIn, and then on the “My Public Profile” link under the Profile Settings section.  You will now be on this page:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1148/1337470272_a1e2063986_o.jpg"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1148/1337470272_ef7235cb15_m.jpg" title="LinkedIn Public Profile Settings" alt="LinkedIn Public Profile Settings" height="240" width="203" /></a></p>
<p>Now you have two options: turn off your public profile so that no one out of your LinkedIn Network can view your information, or limit the type of information other people can see.  If you’re concerned about your privacy, we recommend that you turn off your public profile.</p>
<p>The other settings choices are fairly straightforward.  You should note that if you choose to have your public profile on, LinkedIn requires that you make available your basic information such as name, industry, location, and numbers of recommendations.</p>
<p>LinkedIn also provides further privacy controls under the “Privacy Settings” section of the Settings page.  Although each of these settings is on a separate page, LinkedIn provides great descriptions to each of the settings available to you, and what those settings can do.</p>
<p>Two settings to note in this area: “Profile Views,” where you can set what will be shown to other LinkedIn users when you view their profiles; and “Notifying My Network,” where you can control how or when people in your network are notified when you make significant changes to your profile.</p>
<p>In the “Name &amp; Location” settings page, you have the option to display only your first name and last initial.  When you set your locations, LinkedIn does a good job of simply sharing your regional area — not your specific city — to other LinkedIn users.</p>
<h3><font color="#3366ff">Understanding Their Privacy Policy</font></h3>
<p>An important part in being proactive about your personal information is to examine a website’s privacy policy.  That policy document explains how the website’s parent company plans to share (or commits <em>not</em> to share) the information you provide with other large populations of strangers — namely its employees, its parent company, subsidiaries, advertisers, and the like.</p>
<p>Things to consider when you read a privacy policy:</p>
<ul>
<li>Is the privacy policy easy to read and understand?</li>
<li>Will they share or sell your information?</li>
<li>How recently was it updated?</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center"> <a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1282/1336585591_5fe30cc6c1_o.jpg"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1282/1336585591_d8b1829a5e_m.jpg" title="Facebook Privacy Policy" alt="Facebook Privacy Policy" height="165" width="141" /></a>     <a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1213/1337471082_6922432c74_o.jpg"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1213/1337471082_e9f48b536b_m.jpg" title="LinkedIn Privacy Policy" alt="LinkedIn Privacy Policy" height="165" width="195" /></a>     <a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1130/1337470728_f72ce3261f_o.jpg"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1130/1337470728_11307e253a_m.jpg" title="MySpace Privacy Policy" alt="MySpace Privacy Policy" height="165" width="142" /></a></p>
<p>Let’s apply some of the considerations listed above to each of the social networking websites:</p>
<ul>
<li>Will they sell your information?  Sites that share and sell your information expose you to greater privacy risks.  Obviously, the more people with access to your information, the more opportunities for identity theft.
<ul>
<li>Facebook and MySpace: Neither states that they will not sell your personal information.  It’s safe to assume that they are reserving the right to do so.</li>
<li>LinkedIn:  LinkedIn clearly states that they will never rent or sell your personal identifiable information to third parties for marketing purposes.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>How recently was it updated?  Sites should be updating their policies whenever new services and features are introduced which affect the privacy of your personal information.  If you see that the social networking sites you use are frequently adding new features, you should expect to see that their privacy policies are reviewed and updated regularly.  How recently were these sites’ privacy policies updated?
<ul>
<li>Facebook (May 24, 2007) and LinkedIn (July 14, 2006):  both updated within the last 14 months. Not bad.</li>
<li>MySpace (August 26, 2005):  you may want to consider whether their policy is current enough to protect the information you may have added in any new features they’ve added over the past 2 years.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><font color="#3366ff">Mint’s View on Privacy</font></h3>
<p>These sites offer real benefits to their users, as shown through their popularity.  But they also come with considerable risks to your privacy and identity.  You should protect your “virtual self” with the same common sense that you apply in the real world.  Mint’s point of view is:</p>
<ol>
<li>You should never share your phone numbers, physical addresses, or social security number information on public websites.</li>
<li>You should take the time to understand how the information you do choose to provide will be shared.  There are three key questions to answer <em>before</em> you open accounts and complete “profiles” (or to answer <em>today</em> if you already have an account):
<ul>
<li>What’s shown to friends/contacts?</li>
<li>What’s shared with strangers on the site?</li>
<li>What’s shown publicly on search engines?</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>You also need to be proactive in finding and using the controls these sites provide to protect your personal information and reduce your exposure to identity theft.</li>
<li>You should understand how the companies that provide these sites will use your information. Key questions to answer:
<ul>
<li>Will they share or sell your information?</li>
<li>How up-to-date is their Privacy Policy?</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p>You can also take immediate steps today to give yourself an extra layer of privacy:</p>
<ul>
<li>Visit TRUSTe and read the <a href="http://www.truste.org/consumers/consumer_tips.php">ten tips on protecting your personal information on the Internet</a>.</li>
<li>Check out Privacy Rights Clearinghouse’s fact sheets on <a href="http://www.privacyrights.org/netprivacy.htm">Internet Privacy</a> and <a href="http://www.privacyrights.org/financial.htm">Financial Privacy</a>.</li>
</ul>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Quillen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the internet and technology zips along every hour of every day, literally hundreds of new threats arise in the form of spyware, malware, adware, worms, virii, you name it. For you, the user, it is imperative that you be proactive in protection of your machine, instead of reactive (waiting until something happens to take [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the internet and technology zips along every hour of every day, literally hundreds of new threats arise in the form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware" target="_blank">spyware</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware" target="_blank">malware</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adware" target="_blank">adware</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm" target="_blank">worms</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus" target="_blank">virii</a>, you name it. For you, the user, it is imperative that you be proactive in protection of your machine, instead of reactive (waiting until something happens to take action).  The more proactive you are in applying security, the more you can stop spreading junk that comes through your inbox or browser, and more importantly, protect your identity.</p>
<p>There are lots of <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&amp;N=2060350377+4802&amp;name=Top+Sellers" target="_blank">retail software suites</a> that can accomplish the basic protection you need for your computer. But lets take a look at some free offerings that you can find on the internet that can do just as good of a job and be used in conjunction with <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&amp;N=2060350377+4802&amp;name=Top+Sellers" target="_blank">Norton type packages</a>, adding an additional 60-80% more protection.</p>
<p><span id="more-22"></span>Firstly, lets start at the largest point of entry on your computer other than your inbox, the browser. Most people unwittingly use Internet Explorer, since it comes packaged in with Windows. Version 6 (XP) and to an extent, version 7 (XP/Vista) are very lacking when it comes to protection from spyware and adware on the internet.  Those open to change should switch to <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?from=getfirefox" target="_blank">Firefox</a>, the best browser in town and second most installed browser on computers in the world (and that number is climbing by the day). <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/?from=getfirefox" target="_blank">Firefox</a> is totally free and will let you install plugins made by users, and this is where the value lies.</p>
<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:12" target="_blank">From the plugins page</a>, search or look for the following plugins:</p>
<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865" target="_blank">AdBlock Plus</a> &#8211; <em>Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.</em></p>
<p>With this plugin installed, right-click on a banner and choose &#8220;Adblock&#8221; from the context menu &#8211; the banner won&#8217;t be downloaded again. Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well. Or you select a filter subscription when Adblock Plus starts up the first time, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically.</p>
<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722" target="_blank">NoScript</a> &#8211; <em>Winner of the &#8220;2006 PC World World Class Award&#8221;, this tool makes Firefox the safest browser around.</em></p>
<p>Winner of the &#8220;2006 PC World World Class Award&#8221;, this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox.</p>
<p>It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site, and guards the &#8220;trust boundaries&#8221; against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).</p>
<p>Such a preemptive approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality.</p>
<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3383" target="_blank">KeyScrambler Personal</a> &#8211; <em>KeyScrambler Personal encrypts your keystrokes at the kernel driver level to protect your login information from keyloggers.</em></p>
<p>When you type on your keyboard, the keys travel along a path within the operating system before it arrives at your browser. Keyloggers plant themselves along this path and observe and record your keystrokes. The collected information is then sent to the criminals who will use it to steal from you.</p>
<p>KeyScrambler defeats keyloggers by encrypting your keystrokes at the keyboard driver level, deep within the operating system. When the encrypted keystrokes reach your browser, KeyScrambler then decrypts them so you see exactly the keys you&#8217;ve typed. Keyloggers can only record the encrypted keys, which are completely indecipherable.</p>
<p>Unlike anti-virus and anti-spyware programs that depend on recognition to remove keyloggers that they know about, KeyScrambler will protect you from both known and unknown keyloggers. What&#8217;s more, KeyScrambler provides protection without getting in your way. You don&#8217;t have anything to learn about the program and you don&#8217;t have to do anything differently, but with KeyScrambler your important personal information will be a whole lot safer.</p>
<p>Why are these important? <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865" target="_blank">AdBlock Plus</a> will allow you to filter out advertisements of any type on the websites you visit. Some advertisements, like Google Ads and Google AdSense, are harmless and their intent is just that, an advertisement. However, there are more sinister companies out there that create advertisements that look like real advertisements, and when you click and follow it to the website, any number of things could happen. You could be installing spyware, adware, or just had personal information phished from you. Popular phishing methods try to mimic familiar advertisements or alerts. The most typical type of phishing alert is something that looks like a standard Windows dialogue box that states &#8216;Click Here To Protect Your Pc Now!&#8217;. The average user tends to click on this, since it looks so much like anything else Windows would tell you in a dialouge box. With combined efforts of <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865" target="_blank">AdBlock Plus</a> and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722" target="_blank">NoScript</a>, you can effectively eliminate 80% of these malicious efforts to infect your computer. <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722" target="_blank">NoScript</a> allows you to permit/block websites at the domain level to run scripts, like Javascript, which is another method used in order to get into your machine.</p>
<p>So far, you&#8217;ve invested <strong>$0.00</strong> in protecting your computer. Not bad, huh?</p>
<p>Next, try to monitor your browsing habits and those that use the computer, such as family members or friends. If they tend to visit popular sites like MySpace, CollegeHumor and the like, its possible they could run into malicious ads or phishing attempts. MySpace in particular is a hotbed of activity for spam, spyware, adware, virii, and phishing with hundreds of accounts getting hijacked daily. One of the most frequent ways this starts is by using template generator sites for your layout, or clicking images or ads in another persons generated layout. Some providers of these have malicious intent when deploying, in order to gain access to MySpace accounts for even <em>more</em> phishing and scam campaigns. You should educate those in your household that have internet access to sites like these.</p>
<p>If you use services online like Amazon, PayPal, or eBay, a simple email over MySpace could give away your personal information in under a second. You can use the plugins above as methods of stopping these attempts.</p>
<p>Typically, you can tell that you are getting a fake/spam email on an online web service like MySpace or YouTube one of the following ways:</p>
<ol>
<li>It is from someone you don&#8217;t know (this alone should throw up a mental flag).</li>
<li>It is from someone you know, but sounds very cryptic / message is all jibberish with links.</li>
<li>It is from someone you know, but it doesn&#8217;t sound like &#8216;them&#8217;. i.e. they beg you to click on a link, or urge you to try out a strange website.</li>
<li>The content is something like &#8220;I got $50 Off Instantly By Clicking Here!&#8221;, with an image, or link.</li>
</ol>
<p>Your computer security, online privacy, and identity are very important and it is critical to keep them in check. I hope you take some of the advice listed here to heart, because identity theft / fraud is the fastest growing crime in the world. You can take steps to prevent it from happening to you.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Quillen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 2 years, I have been using various blog platforms on the internet (such as LiveJournal, Blogger, Wordpress, and a slew of others that didn&#8217;t quite make it) and in client project developments for Inclind. I even use one for my own personal site/playground, built with Wordpress.
But recently, I took a step back [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the past 2 years, I have been using various blog platforms on the internet (such as LiveJournal, Blogger, Wordpress, and a slew of others that didn&#8217;t quite make it) and in client project developments for <a href="http://www.inclind.com" title="Inclind, Inc" target="_blank">Inclind</a>. I even use one for my own personal site/playground, built with Wordpress.</p>
<p>But recently, I took a step back and said, why Wordpress? Is it really that great?</p>
<p>Lets look at the reasons why I chose to integrate Wordpress into websites as a way of content management / blogging:</p>
<p>1. Simple to use.</p>
<p>2. Not hard to learn.</p>
<p>3. Allows non-internet types to jump in and start writing without having to program anything.</p>
<p>When I thought about it, are these really perks at all? Especially since I am an application developer? In retrospect, I feel like a lazy developer for bringing Wordpress into play for client projects, despite the fact I hooked it in well and made it work for them. But, you know what they say about hindsight.</p>
<p>That was then, this is now.</p>
<p>Thankfully, I am a better developer now than I was back then, and decided to code my own blogging solution that would be open ended enough for our needs that it could be deployed quickly into existing sites as well as ones under development. Since our web applications are powered by Coldfusion, and Wordpress is entirely in PHP, it creates a headache when trying to use Wordpress on a non PHP site. The reason being, you can&#8217;t run Coldfusion code in a php file, and vice versa, so it creates more overhead when integrating it into our Coldfusion applications and adds difficulty in extending site functions and maintaining all the code.</p>
<p>I thought, hell, why not just recreate Wordpress, take out what you don&#8217;t really need, and keep it streamlined? After doing some planning and whiteboarding, it occurred to me that creating a solution would be rather simple, and in just 5 days, I had built a blogging platform that is good enough for most people to use. I concluded that blog only needs a few core things: the content, the attributes (date, author, views), and ability to comment. This is all the user needs to conduct a blog. Other things like search engine optimization can be handled by the developer. The user does not need this headache, especially those that are not internet-savvy. What I mean is that our system will generate the appropriate data to gain search engine rank, aggregate feeds so people may add that blog content to their site, block spambots and other such features that the average user shouldn&#8217;t have to concern themselves with.</p>
<p>Wordpress does allow for theme switching though. But, that is just a feature for people without a website, and the templates available for it are rather bland. Thankfully, we have the two best graphic designers in all of Delmarva, Jason Steagall and Tom Brown, that can cook up beautiful websites in their sleep. This allows us to give customers exactly what they want without problems. Other companies tend to get templates from sweatshops like templatemonster.com, charge a ton of money, and force poor coding into these designs. Not Inclind. We build a custom solution each and every time, and thus is the basis of me dropping Wordpress as an offering.</p>
<p>Remarkably, I was able to get this done in just a week and ready to use. We have a lot of upcoming sites that are already using this feature, and I am quite proud of what I was able to achieve in just a short time. From a user perspective, I can tell you that around 80% of blogging platform features are simply not necessary. In other words, blog administration intranets are more complicated than they really need to be. By taking all of this away and leaving in what you <em>do</em> need, you will get more out of your blog and website that you can imagine, and have fun doing it. All you have to do is post, our system handles the rest. It will update itself to search engines, manage comments, block spammers, and everything else that makes blogging worthwhile all on its own. It is also 100% customizable from our perspective, should a user want to customize our platform even more, which I/we are happy to do.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t believe me? Simply go to google.com and type in my name, Kevin Quillen. I come up in nearly 75% of the results on the first 5 pages. Now just imagine what we can do for your site with the blogging platform I just built, or our other web applications that include this function. After just a few months of tinkering, my site shot to the top of the list. Your site can be at the top too.</p>
<p>We offer free consultations for any project you have in mind. Call Inclind, Inc at (302) 856-2802 today and ask how we can help <strong>YOU</strong>.</p>
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