Articles here highlight unethical behavior by corporations, companies, websites, or public figures.
Note: Some articles filed under Keeping Them Honest may seem like rants more than unbiased reports. Rest assured that while yes some articles filed under Keeping Them Honest may be rants (I get angry at dishonest or unethical behavior and often end up ranting about it), the articles will always be as factual as possible. Also, please keep in mind that some entities may be featured more often in Keeping Them Honest articles than other entities; this does not mean dotTech is anti-that-company (we are not anti any company), rather it just means that the company is more controversial than others hence it gets more attention.
Privacy, privacy, privacy; it seems all like everyone is talking about nowadays is privacy. And why shouldn’t we be – no one likes the idea of big brother watching every move we make on the internet or having some psyc...
In the past, whether in the wrong or not, Microsoft has been the company to attack. Apparently, now there are deep (enough) pockets elsewhere to target. Not only is Google being targeted but now Apple is too, with the iPhone OS pl...
Those of you who follow Apple news may know that with the release of iPhone OS 4.0, Apple added a clause in their terms and conditions that all software written for iPhone OS must written “directly in C, C++, or Objective-C&...
Google has been in the news lately for many privacy/censorship/etc. issues. I supposed Google HQ has got tired of the Google-bashing when it comes to ‘net neutrality, so is now Google is fighting back. Today Google has relea...
A few days ago I received an e-mail allegedly from UPS (UPS is a global delivery company for those that don’t know): I immediately knew that this was a scam email so I turned on all my defensive methods and opened the email....
In a recent escalation of sectarian violence between the tech-giant love triangle (Microsoft, Google, and Apple), Microsoft has accused Google Chrome of “collecting every keystroke you make” while Internet Explorer 8 &...
Birds might not do it. Bees might not do it — nor even, educated fleas. But… retailers do it. Auto dealers do it. Package tour operators do it. And countless other professions and occupations do it. They all sign up to...
Update: It seems like the Bing redirect was an April Fool’s joke because LMGTFY.com is back to normal. LMGTFY.com (“Let Me Google That For You”) is a website that allows people to run Google search queries for ot...
So you’ve probably visited VirusTotal in the past to scan your files. For those that haven’t, VirusTotal is an online, free service that scans your uploaded file(s) – limited to 10 MB in size – with 43 different ...
The Americas and Europe have had their disagreements in the past; apparently, in this case, the “past” does not necessarily mean history, because recent events seem to foretell that the friction is alive and well! The ...
On Saturday I posted about how recently Mozilla declared two experimental Firefox add-ons as malware. Now Mozilla is claiming that the malware reading on v4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader was actually a false positive. (Master ...
Although not the most popular browser out there, Firefox – by the Mozilla Foundation – is very popular for its combination of speed, customization (via add-ons), and a fair amount of security. That is not to say it is ...
Last month the interwebz was jolted by Malwarebytes’ claims of IObit stealing their intellectual property and using it in IObit Security 360. Now, it seems, the fiasco has come to a happy (sort of) ending: Some weeks ago we ...
From the time it was announced to when it was discovered that Microsoft used open source code in WUDT without following proper license guidelines, we, we being mostly Samuel with a little of Ashraf sweeping in to take credit like ...
Okay, okay – technically speaking, you can legally take source code from a GNU GPLv2 licensed software (with various stipulations of course such as keeping the license of the new product as GNU GPLv2 and providing the source...