Microsoft rushes to close IE security hole
Microsoft rushes to close IE security hole – Tech News – CNET.com
Another critical patch for us IE 6 users. I downloaded it and installed it, no problemo!
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Yeah it’s Friday, and based on the amount of traffic downtown this morning, I’m guessing we’re one of the few places actually working today. Sigh. Taking a look around this morning: Scoble’s got some interesting insight about Microsoft’s decisions, unfortunately his permalinks seem to be having issues, so read the stuff from July 4 for…
I guess I could see this happening. Teams or Slack chats are real-time, people feeling angry might be tempted to voice their unfiltered opinions on them, much like we see on Twitter, etc. “If workers don’t feel they have a voice on serious issues, resentment can build, turning channels ugly. At the end of the…
Are you great with Excel? Do you feel this way about it? “If someone tells you that they ‘just have a few Excel sheets’ that they want help with, run the other way,” tweeted 32-year-old statistician Andrew Althouse. “Also, you may want to give them a fake phone number, possibly a fake name. It may…
Look, we’ve always had this issue in the eDiscovery space, in order to put data on hold, and collect it as part of a lawsuit, someone has to be able to access all of it. That means there has to be an account somewhere with unlimited access to both search, and collect, tons of data from your environment, as necessary.
As important as having the ability to do that when faced with litigation, there is also the danger inherent in having an account, and tools, with that level of access.
Granted, it has zero chance of passing as is, but the current bill before the US Senate, The Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016, would actually make encryption a legal impossibility. The bill, Hall and Bankston point out, doesn’t specifically suggest any sort of backdoored encryption or other means to even attempt to balance…