Story of a hijack -real life spyware story.
The clueless users who refuse to upgrade -interesting article, but if Microsoft really were to quit supporting older software wouldn’t the howls of “forced upgrading” be ten times louder than this?
Maybe I should get some of these and make everyone hang them in their offices?
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I bit the bullet and installed SP2 over lunch today, since I had to work through my lunch hour anyway. (Long story) Everything went well, and nothing really came across as “broken” in any major way. I had to re-enable the Messenger Service, since I do use “net send” across our internal network quite often….
Imagine, if you will, your smart TV or home assistant listening in on conversations you’ve been having about layoffs in your industry, and that data is shared with a financial institution that then decides that you’re not a good credit risk. The AI took that conversation and combined it with a ton of financial information from other people who work in your industry and made that call. Is it accurate? Probably not, but when you start grabbing data from all over the place and building these huge algorithmic models, things can get a little messy. You become less of an individual and more of a conglomeration of all the people who do things like you, and when you add in a little spying, that can lead to all sorts of disastrous consequences.Â
Do we want governments and corporations to have that much power? No, but as Bruce rightly points out, we haven’t done much of anything to stop them from taking it so far.Â
I’ve talked about Mailwasher’s anti-spam product before, and Matthew from the Firetrust team that developed it dropped me an email today to let me, and those of you who have been interested, know that the new free version 5 is now available from mailwasher.net Tags: Mailwasher Follow these topics: Uncategorized
Just a typical IT day, you’re trying to reconfigure a machine and get it moved, as an improvement for one of your users, but you get sidetracked when your boss comes running into your office, accounting reports falling out of her hands, asking you to investigate a missing payment from the database! Turns out someone…
Ahh finally someone has come up with a service that will let you: “get an instant summary report on how likely it is that your marketing message or email newsletter will get stopped by the mail servers behind Sp@mAssassin and similar Bayesian-style filters.” I’m going to have to check out the ContentChecker and see if…
I just got an email from THC, their support forum has gone live this afternoon, you can visit it over at http://support.thathostingcompany.com. Also in the same vein Microsoft has released a new patch for IIS. No links from this news story, but a good quote to make you want to find the patch: “This is…