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Yet another reason you should not, repeat NOT, just plug in a USB drive that you find laying around! Only use ones that you, or someone you trust, has used to store data. Also, ones that your instructor gives you at training classes I teach should be safe too. I plug those into my laptop…

Linked – Why Your Law Firm Can’t Innovate
There may be something to this, in the old “When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail” sort of way. When everything looks like the nail in your area of expertise, it’s difficult to be truly innovative. By giving up the generalist view, lawyers have given up that ability to see across industries,…

Linked – Technostress is killing productivity. Culture is the cure.
What work-life balance? In the past, employees were able to focus on work while at work and personal lives while not at work. Today, smartphones and communication and social apps keep a constant stream of work and personal messages coming in 24 hours a day, and it’s taking a toll. That’s not work-life balance. That’s,…

Linked – Police: Uber driver was streaming Hulu just before fatal self-driving car crash
What a total cluster! “Police obtained records from Hulu suggesting that Vasquez was watching “The Voice,” a singing talent competition that airs on NBC, just before the crash. Hulu’s records showed she began watching the program at 9:16pm. Streaming of the show ended at 9:59pm, which “coincides with the approximate time of the collision,” according to…
Reading – From Skateboards to Drug Pumps, Welcome to Our Hackable Future
The exposure to being hacked raises a lot of questions about the so-called Internet of Things. If everything is connected to the Net, then everything is tracking you, like my Fitbit. That information is valuable in and of itself to hackers looking to embarrass or blackmail people. But, as bad as that is, what is…

Linked: Steak With A Side Of Surveillance: Outback Restaurants Adding Employee-Tracking Analytics To Its Cameras
I’ve been saying this for years, stop making your employee management problems an issue for IT to fix: Turning personnel management over to tech solutions seldom results in better management or better employees As the Techdirt article below details, what you’re likely to get is more of whatever it is you decide to measure. Just…