Password managers have become essential tools for those who want to protect their data, and other actions can improve your odds of surviving. In Short Circuits: Website pop-up messages asking to send notifications are annoying and now browser publishers are making it easier for those of us who detest the messages to get rid of them. • Sometimes you might want Windows to believe that you're not in the location where the operating system thinks you are. It's an easy fix. In Spare Parts (only on the website): Facebook claims to have ways to protect your privacy, or at least to control more of what Zuckerberg and crew know about you; so let's take a look. • A man who claimed to protect organizations from distributed-denial-of-service attacks will be sentenced in May for staging such attacks himself. • Twenty years ago: Apple was well on the way to the great turnaround and Apple's board of directors presented Steve Jobs with a new airplane.