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Linked – Mecklenburg County can’t provide texts, despite records law
It’s easy to claim text messages and other mobile communications are part of the official record, but again we see that actually preserving and collecting them, isn’t always so simply. “North Carolina law is clear: Text messages exchanged by government workers are public records. But Mecklenburg County doesn’t retain texts from county cellphones and officials’…
Linked: Companies who Adopt Remote Work will Replace Every Company who Doesn’t
I don’t know that everything claimed in this piece by Chris Herd will come to fruition, but this one is absolutely true: A physical office means you can hire the best person you can afford in a 30-mile radius, disqualifying you from 99.9% of the world’s talent. Remote teams can hire the best person…
Linked – Charity tackling child abuse warns of ‘unintended consequences’ of internet regulation
My gut tells me that the charity is right to be concerned. Any time we find ourselves in this much agreement that “something” must be done in the US, we usually end up doing something that doesn’t spend a lot of time considering the unintended consequences, and with a scheme to regulate the internet being…
What I’m Sharing (weekly) – May 17, 2020
Underestimated: Law Firm Data Breaches Will our digital lives leave a fossil record? Don’t Bet the Farm on Slack Space Hackers Spoofing Zoom to Obtain Credentials and Passwords – Makes sense, who can keep track of which invites are real and which aren’t? 😉 Google Announces New, Free Digital Skills Training Sessions Online Here’s Another…
Linked – Security Experts Warn Congress That the Internet of Things Could Kill People
“For example, Schneier and other experts testified that the same poor security exists in computers making their way into hospitals, including those used to manage elevators and ventilation systems. It’s not hard to imagine a fatal disaster, which makes it imperative that the government step in to fix this “market failure,” he said. The problems…
