Opera Opinions
Some more interesting stuff from Lockergnome. In today’s Tech Specialist Newsletter there’s someone else’s opinion of Opera, in case my opinion wasn’t enough!
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This is not a good look, and it’s reason #1 why we should be questioning the need to capture and store all of this data in the first place. It’s nearly impossible to keep it totally secured, but it also seems like they aren’t even trying that hard. “US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has…
This is a follow up to yesterday’s post about Morton’s use of twitter. As Aaron and Angela both correctly point out in the comments, this sort of behavior devalues Twitter as a communication tool. I want to stop referring to Twitter and like-tools as “media” because media doesn’t even begin to cover what it does….
“NetClean’s founder and CEO Christian Berg said that more effort should go into identifying paedophiles within the workplace because as many as two people in a thousand use work computers to view child sexual abuse material.“While it may appear strange for people to do this at work, many people actually find their work computer to…
I pretty much agree with the author’s takeaway here: “AAA’s point here doesn’t seem to be that accident avoidance features are a bad thing, but that they’re not good enough to trust yet. Avoiding 40 percent of adult collisions in optimal conditions is no small feat. Drivers and pedestrians just need to take their safety…
“Also appearing to be correct were reports that the “hacking” that took place in this instance was of the less hack-y variety and more of the let’s-try-the-guy’s-old-password-y. “ Yeah so, let’s learn a lesson here people. Don’t start a new job with the same password you used at your old job, OK? Yes, using the…
Google Play is so insistent on tracking your location that some Android phone users have reported battery drain issues. You can laboriously go through all your apps and turn off the location feature. A very laborious process and not necessarily what you want. But if even one app has the ability to track you, so…