I suppose, since this is a blog about technology, that I have to comment on “IT” or “Ginger” or “Segway”, whatever you choose to call Dean Kamen’s latest invention .
Frankly, I’m not overly impressed. Unlike some others , I don’t want one. I have no need for it, and I don’t typically spend $3000 on a toy. I can get all of the transportation advantages it has on my bicycle, and get a good healthy workout too. My bike only cost $150.
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I’ve always been bothered by the idea of QR codes. I felt that they undermined everything we tried to teach users about online security. Don’t open email attachments that you weren’t expecting, don’t blindly follow links without checking where they go, or just go to the website and login without clicking a link in an…
This is a frightening story. How many patients see their therapist without giving a second thought to where, and how, the therapist is keeping their notes. Probably not many. But, it can make a big difference, because if it’s not secure, those are your deepest, most private, conversations out there for all the world to see.
Yeah so this is maybe something to keep in mind: Last year security researchers told TechCrunch that malicious users could access and listen in to Zoom and Webex video meetings by cycling through different permutations of meeting IDs in bulk. The researchers said the flaw worked because many meetings were not protected by a passcode. Lawyers,…
Well, Google announced the end of life for their own product to sync between Outlook and Google Calendar awhile ago, After uninstalling it, I went back to using the free version of gSync-it for the time being, but I now realize that Nov. 17th is the drop dead date for the version that I have…
” You define e-mail address(es) for those you trust and a timeout period. Should something happen to you, the person identified can send a request to access your LastPass vault. LastPass then contacts the owner to make sure everything is okay and starts the timer. If the owner of the vault doesn’t respond to LastPass…
Looking at my own Google Wave account, and the folks I follow on Twitter, it seems that Google has opened up the floodgates a little bit, and has given out quite a few more invites. That’s a good thing, because the first thing I realized when I started was that there weren’t very many people…