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Our CIO today decided to send the IT department the monthly statistics for our Postini spam filters. It’s been a few years since I worked in a place where I was the Postini Administrator, so I haven’t seen the percentages of mail that actually gets delivered in a while. It was around 30% at the…
Yes, 131 is a lot. I actually looked through the list and can’t say that I would bother with a few of them, because I don’t think they address something that is really much of a risk. On the other hand, there are some really good tips on this list too, so it’s worth checking…
When Big Tech bros talk about being the cowboys of the modern age, the myth is what they want you to believe. They want us to believe that they are so brilliant and creative that they succeed without assistance and will solve any problem without needing oversight or regulation. They’ll forget to mention that the Internet they are building on only exists because of government programs or that many of them have gotten plenty of handouts from government and private equity. They will also not like to be reminded of the many ways they have overstepped and done real harm.
The thing that bugs me the most about this situation is not the argument about what Apple should or shouldn’t be required to do, it’s the number of politicians who feel the need to pipe in on behalf of the government, who clearly have no idea how encryption works. The whole point of encrypting data…
I’ve been saying for quite some time now that I couldn’t understand why some features of the desktop version of Tweetdeck weren’t being added to the iPhone app. (Mostly global filters.) Apparently, there was a reason for that. Tweetdeck was completely rewriting the iOS application. As much as I’m looking forward to seeing this new…
Do you think they realized how much music they would have to remove from playlists once they started down this path? “Today, Spotify has released a new statement on the matter following public backlash. The company starts by saying that the language used was “vague and left too many elements open to interpretation” and clarifies…