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Tim hits the nail on the head here, there’s a very fine line between trying to weed out “fake” information, and outright censorship. “Fake news is apparently everywhere. All over Europe, legislators and officials are trying to regulate content with “fake news” legislation and directives, as though the term could somehow be narrowly-defined enough that…
Courtesy of John Robb comes this article about Intel putting in some security measures in their new chips, due next year. John’s response: “Intel to include copy protection functionality in new chips. I personally won’t ever buy a chip with type of stuff on it. Unless there is an alternative, my aggressive upgrade cycle has…
So the government is pushing smart cards as a way to protect against terrorism, right? Well they should read this story, Smart-card security needs an upgrade. -seems those little wonders are easily hacked into. How nice would it be to have someone steal your smart card ID and have easy access to your identity? Microsoft…
If you’re not familiar with TrueCrypt, it a free utility that you can use to encrypt your data. I’ve used it for years, lots of people in the eDiscovery world have used it for years, among many other tech professionals, and I would imagine they continue to use it. Given the large user base, and…
This is really the thing. We all know that our devices are with us all the time, and we all know that everyone else knows. So when the notification pops up, there’s an instantaneous thought process that we all go through.
And no, it’s not is this important or can it wait? The actual thought process is “they know I see this and are probably expecting a response”
However the article below also points out that much of the time, that’s isn’t true. Someone was just reaching out and there is no hurry or even an expectation of immediate response but we don’t know that. So, we either drop everything to reply or we apologize for any delay in replying.
Which makes no sense.
I’ve been involved in direct work with clients in half-day training, or multi-hours long workshops and replied to an email afterwards with an “I’m sorry, I was tied up” opening.
Yes, I’m apologizing for doing my job and paying attention to it.
How dumb is that?