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Linked: Windows 10 is a security disaster waiting to happen. How will Microsoft clean up its mess?
Ed Bott raises an interesting question about people using PCs that don’t meet the requirements in terms of hardware security for Windows 11 but who own otherwise perfectly fine computers. In 2025, when Microsoft stops patching Windows 10, how many computers will still be out there, in use, connected to the internet, and vulnerable.
But in the quote above, Ed raises another point that maybe we should be thinking about more. What happens to all the hardware that is no longer supported as technology advances? It ends up in a landfill. That’s not good. That’s not even acceptable.
Linked: Facebook Denies That it Plans to Backdoor WhatsApp
If Sharon, and others, are right about this, on the other hand, they won’t have to: “There are many cybersecurity experts who believe it is only be a matter of time before device manufacturers and mobile operating system developers embed similar tools directly into devices themselves, making them impossible to escape. Embedding content scanning…
Linked: My Biggest Competition – The Lawyer’s Super Cheap “Young Person”
I’ve seen this tendency as well, though I have not yet seen anyone bring in their “good with computers” kid to run trial presentation. Still, I think what he talks about at the link is something attorneys need to take a moment and think about: “Today, I talk about what I still consider to be…
Linked – The Weakness in Two-Factor Authentication—Your Lost-Phone Policy
This is interesting, though I can’t help but think that the second reason at the end of this paragraph is less a technical problem than someone using your own culture against you. “Hackers always look for the weak link, and they have learned to get around MFA by exploiting gaps in companies’ lost-phone protocols. They…
