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Hotel WiFi is Not Secure

ByMike McBride March 27, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

It’s not as though you haven’t heard this before, but the latest news just proves that if you do use hotel WiFi, you should not do anything remotely private while connected to it.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2902740/vulnerabilities/flaw-in-common-hotel-router-threatens-guests-devices.html#tk.rss_networksecurity

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Upgrading away
ByMike McBride November 24, 2007July 20, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

Just finished the upgrade to Movable Type 4 on the Child Abuse blog. It seems to all be working, with the exception of the MT-Blogroll plugin, which isn’t compatible. That’s cool, the blogroll as it stands currently still shows up, I just can’t really add to it or anything. Eventually, if the plugin doesn’t get…

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Evernote
ByMike McBride August 22, 2007July 21, 2014 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’ve mentioned before how much I enjoy using OneNote on my home machine and laptop. It’s a great tool for keeping track of all kinds of information in one place. Unfortunately, the one place I’ve really seen a need for this lately, is at work, where OneNote is not available to me. So a couple…

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Linked – Two in a thousand people ‘view child sexual abuse images at work’
ByMike McBride December 2, 2015December 1, 2015 Reading Time: 2 minutes

“NetClean’s founder and CEO Christian Berg said that more effort should go into identifying paedophiles within the workplace because as many as two people in a thousand use work computers to view child sexual abuse material.“While it may appear strange for people to do this at work, many people actually find their work computer to…

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Linked – Here Is How Hackers Bypass Google’s Two-Factor Authentication
ByMike McBride September 6, 2016 Reading Time: 1 minute

You may have read reports of Gmail accounts being hacked despite the user having enabled the famed Google 2FA or two-factor authentication. This is because hackers are employing a new strategy to lure gullible users to hand over the 2FA code. Don’t fall for it. If you get a message supposedly from Google asking you…

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Marriott Hack Shows The Risk of Our Surveillance Society
ByMike McBride January 7, 2019January 5, 2019 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Mashable asked the question that many of you may have had when you learned one of the more recently reported details of the Marriott/Starwood hack. “Why do hotels collect and store passports?” The answer they came up with turned out to be something that some of us started talking about a few years ago, but…

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Twitter is what you want it to be
ByMike McBride February 27, 2009July 22, 2015 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I love when the “experts” get on their high-horse and talk about the “right” way to use a tool like Twitter. The latest example came from Louis Gray this week. In a post titled,Twitter is for Following Topics and Listening, Not for Following People. Louis takes it upon himself to proclaim, just in the title,…

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