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Shared Links (weekly) May 2, 2021
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Only 8% of Those Who Paid the Ransom Got ALL Their Data Back
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Just When You Thought You Understood ESI
– linked documents instead of attachments are becoming the norm, should the legal industry ignore that and consider them attachments?
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“Ultimately, a competent manager knows how to empathize. “
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Data Retention Policies and Legal Hold Practices – Time to Revisit Because of Remote Work?
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Security Vulnerabilities in Cellebrite
– the ethical arguments in this situation could go on for a long time.
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“When AIs start hacking, everything will change. They won’t be constrained in the same ways, or have the same limits, as people. They’ll change hacking’s speed, scale, and scope, at rates and magnitudes we’re not ready for.”
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Remote Workers Expect Pay to Reflect Their Locations
It’s a weird dynamic, certainly you don’t want to be valued less than coworkers, but living in a less expensive location is actually a competitive hiring advantage too.
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Add another organization to the hate list.
The list of stupid business practices got one longer yesterday afternoon, when the Small Business Survival Committee (SBSC) decided that since one person who works here signed up for their newsletter, it would be perfectly acceptable to scrape our website for email addresses and send it to everyone. Have you ever seen what a 3MB…
Linked – Man Finds USB Drive With Vital Security Information on Heathrow Airport
This is less than ideal, but honestly, I’ve worked in the industry long enough to totally see how it happens. Someone needed to take this somewhere, or send it to someone, and just copied it without giving a second thought to what would happen if it got lost. “Now we can add Heathrow Airport to…
Clean up on aisle 5!
I got home from my parents house last night, talked to Angela on the phone for a little while, read my email, wrote a few more, grabbed a new webcam pic, went to upload it to the site, and discovered something interesting. “Hmm, why do I have a default.htm, and an index.html in my main…
More on copyright
Brian, in the comments on the last post, decries the fact that we are giving individual rights to corporations. He may have a point in that, but I want to clarify where I stand on the copyright issue. I do believe in copyrights, and I do believe that even corporations that create artistic works, or…
So you want to work in IT?
Consider this fair warning if you’re thinking of working in IT. While I can’t get into the specifics of this situation, suffice it to say that somewhere along the line in your IT career you’ll be in the middle of this situation. It involves a former employee, a security policy breach (among other reasons why…
