Here are tonight’s news items that I’ll be talking about on when I join my friend, David Lawrence, for my weekly segment on his radio show, The David Lawrence Show:

Online ID Fraud Not as Bad as Thought?

Did you know that customs agents can seize your laptop and keep it forever?

“No-Swipe” Credit Cards Easier to Swipe?

How to Freeze Your Credit Report

Finally, in many states you have a legal right to place a “freeze” on your credit report to help prevent identity thieves from opening credit in your name. If you are interested in freezing your credit report, check out this page at PIRG for information about your rights to do so.

Here are tonight’s news items that I’ll be talking about on when I join my friend, David Lawrence, for my weekly segment on his radio show, The David Lawrence Show:

Don’t like a privacy policy? Tough!

Shocking News: U.S. Government is sloppy with privacy!

Netflix fixes Web 2.0 bugs

Making Smart Phones More Secure

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Today, Justin and I are officially San Francisco’s newest homeowners.

After several years of renting and getting the shakes every time we looked at real estate prices in the San Francisco Bay Area, we finally took the plunge. What finally did it for us, what finally pushed us over the edge, was the need to find some place closer to Justin’s new office in the South of Market (SoMa) area of San Francisco.

Read more about our home search process, and see some cool pictures of our new place, after the jump…

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According to Nora Ephron, Steve Wynn punched a hole Picasso’s painting, Le Rêve, shortly after selling it for $139 Million. Yes, it was an accident, but it put the kibosh on what would have been the most expensive painting sale in history.

Wynn stepped away from the painting, and there, smack in the middle of Marie-Therese Walter’s plump and allegedly-erotic forearm, was a black hole the size of a silver dollar – or, to be more exactly, the size of the tip of Steve Wynn’s elbow — with two three-inch long rips coming off it in either direction. Steve Wynn has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that damages peripheral vision, but he could see quite clearly what had happened.

“Oh shit,” he said. “Look what I’ve done.”

The rest of us were speechless.

It’s quite a story, especially to hear what Wynn’s biggest concern was… Check it out.

Here are tonight’s news items that I’ll be talking about on when I join my friend, David Lawrence, for my weekly segment on his radio show, The David Lawrence Show:

HP Scandal Moves to Criminal Court

Websense Tallies the Phishing Toll

Congratulations Randy Boe!

Arnie Terminates RFID Bill