The choice of an Independent VPN

When you connect through a VPN it is the IP address of the VPN that appears as the origin of your activity.

Well, this is the case under IPv4 addressing - this may well change when IPv6 is adopted.

In an earlier website posting I discussed the use of an independent VPN service that could be used in place of some of the more well known services that you see advertized on sites that  you would be interested in if you have found this posting. While I am in the process of reposting much of the material and I am aware that this topic is still of great interest, judging by the cache access of the former pages on my website, I will not be expending this topic past what I had before.

I will be posting my analysis of IPv6 connectivity and security as I think that it is going to be increasingly important as we go forward in the development of communication and network services. These are still relatively early days in the development of these systems and not only are we likely to run out of IPv4 addresses there are increased security concerns that can both create new vulnerabilities and provide solutions for individual identification with the WWW.

Links:

• Downloading from File Sharing Sites discussed 
• The VPN service that I use
• How and why ISPs Throttle

Rogers Account

It seems that Rogers are admitting that they have had some synchronization issues with their mail systems. The email shown here is evidence of this:

There were in fact 15 messages in the "Synched Messages" folder - these originated over the last 6 months. None of the messages were important. The account that this referred to had been synchronized with a Blackberry smartphone (not and iPhone or Android device as suggested in the email). The account was a POP configuration not IMAP - there have been synchronization issues other than this reported by Rogers.

The other synchronization issues related to the migration of the Rogers email to a corporate Microsoft Exchange server - changing the Blackberry from BIS to BES. The synchronization issues related to duplicate messages and missing or switched calendars when syncing with Outlook and the Blackberry.

It was good for Rogers to let me know - however late!

Fergus, Ontario - rogers account getting duplicate emails- 7 May 2012

Dubious Business

Dubious Business Practices and Defamation.

I fail to see how the criticism of a business for the product or service that they are offering as being too good to be true as slander. I also wonder when customer service has to be conducted by Shill and Bully techniques.

When a venture fails and the company that was instrumental in that failure "re-brands", it is only reasonable that references to the old entity be removed from the public eye. However, when requests to the remove the "offending" information have been followed with intimidation threats, these requests to "take-down" pages containing the references have been difficult to entertain.

In addition to the initial Shill comment that was posted on this blog by a visitor, various attempts at impersonation of those involved in reaction to my postings were detected. These took the form:

1. A domain registration in the name of a company that it was thought I was associated. (The website for the registration then had links posted on it in an apparent attempt to discredit the company for that I was supposedly connected.)
2. Emails were sent to me both anonymously and in the names of other interested parties.  
3. Invitations to join social websites such as LinkedIn were received, presumably in an attempt to find out more information about me. 

Some Links:

• Is Facebook feedback defamation - or honest criticism of poor customer service?  By Eileen Brown, ZDNet, April 3, 2012 - See the comment by Dr_Zinj (below)
• Old Testamentarian  

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Google search, 30 April 2012, for the exact URL from Mountain View, California.

Blogger and Lightbox

Lightbox is the image viewer that is built-in to Blogger.

When you place an image in a blog post there is an automatic link made to the uploaded image file. The image as it appears in the blog can be sized to fit the text and content on the page. If the visitor clicks on the image a full size rendition of the image will be displayed on the visitors computer screen.

If multiple images are used in a blog post then a "slide-show" will be available and the images can be navigated using the Lightbox thumnail.

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This was a series of hits relating to Phoenix BIOS and Virtualization

Visits on 9 April 2012:

• Dubayy, UAE
• Szeged, Csongrad, Hungary
• Portland, Oregon