Tag Archives: security
Resources: How to Protect your Email
With great honor, Aspiration gets to join Jack and Jamila from Palante Technology Cooperative for a session on “PGP Encryption for Our Movements” at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit on June 19-22, 2014. The AMC is a “collaborative labratory” where activists, techies, artists, and educators create and share transformative media. We always have a […]
Data: Your Most Important Tech Asset
As much as we love tools here at SSC, we find that many nonprofits focus too much on them when thinking about their technology strategy and infrastructure. While tools are an important and necessary piece, it’s important that an organization focus on the more crucial piece of the technological equation: the data. When thinking about […]
Wall Street Journal Data Transparency Weekend Tools
Recently, a group of coders gathered together in Greenwich Village to put together tools to promote privacy, security and data transparency. This was the The Wall Street Journal Data Transparency Weekend. Aspiration was excited to be involved in such an important movement happening in tool development. You can see photos from the weekend on Flickr […]
How Do You Manage Your Passwords?
Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. One issue that organizations often ask us about with exasperation is passwords. That necessary headache that everyone has a different way of managing badly. How do you manage them? Do you have a text document where they’re all listed? Do […]
Facebook Privacy Toolbox
Hi everyone, I just wanted to post a quick note for you all to check out the awesome Facebook Privacy Toolbox that Kathryn Benedicto put together to help people like yourselves to navigate Facebook‘s every-changing privacy invasion settings. Check out the tools below to protect yourself and regain some kind of semblance of security from […]
Social Media and Accessibility
An example of CAPTCHA We here at Social Source Commons Blog recently got an email asking us to reconsider our use of reCaptcha for spam management on our blog. reCAPTCHA is a tool that uses the CAPTCHA technique to verify that the person requesting to interact with the site (post a comment, register as a […]