COTSE-Ban the US Mail!
This is great, again COTSE comes through with a very insightful article about current ideas out in the media.
Jim has put together a really great list of things to think about, because there is so much tech in our houses now that someone else having control of it can turn very dangerous, especially in a domestic violence situation: “Often the home technology has been set up by one partner in a relationship with the other…
“A little over a year ago, Microsoft bought beloved calendar app Sunrise. For the past 14 months or so, things have been more or less business as usual… at least for customers. But this week, the other shoe finally dropped: August 31st will be the last day that Sunrise exists as a standalone app. Sure,…
I’m beginning to understand why so many people in work in litigation support sing the praises of IrFanView every chance they get. I had always considered the program as an image viewer with some other tools, but I didn’t realize just what awesome batch processing features it has. Today I was using the batch rename…
I’ve written plenty of times about the importance of backups, multiple backups even. If you know you need to backup, but aren’t sure where to begin, you could do worse that take a look at the options here and start backing up your important data. Seriously, now, before a hard drive crash, malware infection, or…
According to the emails I’ve received just in the past couple of weeks:
I’m actively seeking employment in Pennsylvania
I own rental property in Las Vegas
I have wives and children enrolled in schools in NC, VA and Canada.
I travel back and forth between San Francisco and New Zealand frequently
I frequent some “interesting” dating sites, including at least one that caters to cheating spouses. (Great, thanks to whoever used my email address to sign up for that at the same time my wife is across the country, that doesn’t look odd!!!!)
I am paying for cable internet/TV service for a young lady in Michigan. (Student using their stepfather’s payment info maybe?)
I shop at some online retailers in England.
Now, none of that is true
The number of logins that have been part of a hack, and the tools available to crack passwords, have reached the point where a password, no matter how complex it is, isn’t really enough: “If the service provider supports multi-factor authentication, Microsoft recommends using it, regardless if it’s something as simple as SMS-based one-time passwords,…