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Have you ever searched for yourself online and found your home address, cell phone number, and a list of your relatives staring back at you from a site you’ve never visited? If that made your skin crawl, welcome to the club. You’ve just encountered the work of a Data Broker. These companies or individuals are […]

Q:  I have an iPhone, and I use iMessage for almost everything.  I figured it was safe because of the “blue bubbles.” Hey, it’s Apple, right? But, my brother, who uses an Android, keeps telling me my texts are wide open to hackers. Is he right? Should I be worried about my data being stolen […]

Geek Note: A couple of months ago I answered a question from reader Paul D. about robocalls (I.G.T.M. #967, February 1, 2026). It has recently come to my attention that not everybody is as savvy as Paul in being able to detect and identify a call as actually being a robocall.  Let’s consider this week’s […]

Q: This is a real-world example of phishing experience. My spouse peripheral and I returned from a 50-minute absence yesterday to find her desktop screen actually “doing things.” She exclaimed, “Hey, someone’s using my computer!” I looked, and, someone WAS doing so!!!!! The cursor was moving, menus were dropping down, windows were being opened, just […]

Dear Readers:  There have been a lot of changes to It’s Geek To Me since Issue #1 premiered way back on July 26, 2007.  The weekday the column publishes in the local newspaper changed multiple times, the location within the paper changed from it being in the “Next” magazine insert to the business section, to, […]

Q: Beyond the obligatory and ubiquitous “Thanks Bill,” in your digitally-enhanced Genuinely Intelligent (GI) view, why oh why can’t Windows Snipping Tool’s frame size be set in the registry? No matter what trick I apply each time I use the &^%$ thing its size grows, its position changes, and I am forced to manually resize […]

Q: Dear Geek, I’ve been having a bit of a debate with my spouse lately. Do I really need to turn my computer off every single night? I usually just leave it on so I can get right back to my solitaire game or my emails in the morning. But now I’m worried—is it damaging […]

Q: I recently did a Google search on a subject — can’t even remember what now, but that’s not important.  As I scrolled through the search results, an alarm sounded and a red screen came up telling me my system was now locked, and to call a Microsoft support number for assistance. I don’t know […]

Q: I am worried about my kids having too much access to AI. I am not really sure just what it is all about. But I have heard that young people need to understand just what it is and if any precautions need to be taken. As the parent, I am definitely not the one […]

Q: I’ve used Facebook over the decades to keep up with friends in other places and nearby. Of late my feed has become more political, less interesting. I have begun regularly deleting anything in the feed marked Sponsored. Additionally, FB has started adding one or two sponsored items to the panel on the right side of […]