Why did they do that?

ByMike McBride February 22, 2007November 8, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

Something that I thought about today when I was talking to someone on the Friends in Tech forums. Their question was about being unable to see the Temporary Internet Files folder even after showing hidden folders. I’ve found that when I installed IE7, that, and the history folder are “protected operating system file and folders”, and are hidden by default about three options down from the option to show hidden folders. As the discussion over there shows though, why did MS bother to do that, and then make those folders available to be browsed through the browser? If they’re viewable that way, why bother making them hidden when using Windows Explorer? I just don’t get it.

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Linked: A Norwegian school quit using video calls after a naked man ‘guessed’ the meeting link
ByMike McBride March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

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,…

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Time Machine – The Plugins
ByMike McBride December 31, 2011December 30, 2011 Reading Time: 2 minutes

No this is not a blog post about Apple’s backup system. This is about a couple of pretty useful plugins for WordPress. One, which I’m pretty sure got it’s name from the Apple backup software, I’ve been using for quite a while. The other I just discovered the other day and thought would be kind…

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Scoble’s at it again..
ByMike McBride December 24, 2002 Reading Time: 3 minutes

So I took a look at Robert Scoble’s entries from last night and he says some interesting things. Of course he sounds exactly like you would expect a guy in NEC Sales to sound, which makes you wonder if he’s being honest or just a corporate shill, I’ve met Robert and I think he’s probably…

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Linked – “Hacked” e-mail account of White House worker exposed in 2013 password breach
ByMike McBride September 28, 2016September 23, 2016 Reading Time: 2 minutes

An unnamed US intelligence official was quoted by NBC News as calling the leak of contractor Ian Mellul’s e-mails “the most damaging compromise of the security of the president of the United States that I’ve seen in decades”—one caused by the use of an outside personal e-mail account for government business. The e-mails included full…

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Linked – The Plan To Sunset Section 230 Is About A Rogue Congress Taking The Internet Hostage If It Doesn’t Get Its Way
ByMike McBride May 24, 2024May 23, 2024 Reading Time: 3 minutes

How many companies that provide hosting or build platforms for other people to communicate can’t afford to defend themselves every time someone posts something that results in litigation? Many will be forced to shut down due to the risk. Many will be targeted specifically in the hope that they will have to shut down.

When that happens, more and more voices will be silenced online. Only the rich can afford to build their platforms and keep lawyers around to defend themselves. Google and Meta will be OK. The rest of us will no longer have any outlets for ourselves. Our opportunities to communicate online with each other will be limited to what Big Tech says we can do.

It’s hard not to assume that is the goal, though.

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Pocket Adds Recommended Feature
ByMike McBride August 31, 2015August 29, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

Pocket, an app I have talked about before in my post about Online Services That Help Me Keep Life Straight, as a great way to save articles to read later when browsing the web, or social media, have added a new feature. Now on both the website and in the iOS app, I’ve noticed the…

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