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Linked: How Nest, designed to keep intruders out of people’s homes, effectively allowed hackers to get in
In this case, it wasn’t even that Nest had an insecure device, though that is often open to debate with Internet of Things devices. No, this was all about reusing passwords. “The method used to spy on the Thomases is one of the oldest tricks on the Internet. Hackers essentially look for email addresses and…
Linked – The Truth About “Apply Online” Hell and How to Escape it
Yeah, this. I’ve gone through this myself this year, and I’ve watched other people I know go through it too. Use your network, and if you know someone looking, let them use your network too. Throughout my career, I only hired past employees, colleagues, and professionals sourced from the trusted parts of my network (including…
These People Are In Charge of Making Laws About Technology
Granted, it has zero chance of passing as is, but the current bill before the US Senate, The Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016, would actually make encryption a legal impossibility. The bill, Hall and Bankston point out, doesn’t specifically suggest any sort of backdoored encryption or other means to even attempt to balance…
Linked: Work invading your private life? EU politicians want to give employees a right to disconnect
I suspect the fact that someone in the EU felt a need to suggest this as a law says some really bad things about workplace culture. I wish I could honestly not say the same, if not worse, about US workplace culture, but let’s be honest, will we eventually need something like this too? “The…
