Hotel WiFi is Not Secure
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.
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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.
Follow these topics: Tech
“TwitKu has been totally updated! As you can see, movable and sizable windows is the biggest change. This will make it easier to support “other” networks later.” I suspect when Pownce releases an API, Twitku will be prepared for it. Technorati Tags: Twitku, Pownce Follow these topics: Blogging, Tech
Truthfully though, I think this story shows a couple of really important points.
Recognize that mistakes happen
The importance of two-factor identification
The importance of taking action as soon as you realize the mistake
The importance of getting the technical folks involved immediately instead of hiding it
20 Year Archive now Available on Google Groups This is actually fairly interesting. It’s got a listing of some of the more historic posts, like the first mention of Microsoft, or the first mention of AOL in Usenet. (Via Firda’s weblog .) This also presents us with a dilemna. For the last 20 years, how…
Recently, I’ve become painfully aware that my personal phone, an iPhone 3S, might be lagging a bit in the technology department. Actually, it’s not so much the technology lag as the number of things that kinda sorta work some of the time. For example, there was a recent occasion where my wife sent me a…
The shift in tech skills is one of the contributing factors, but it’s not that technology has been changing, because that ALWAYS happens. It’s the insistence that employers can find people with a skill that didn’t even exist 2-3 years ago instead of actually developing the people they already have, or hiring people who can continue to adjust and learn these skills.
How many jobs are going unfilled because you’re looking for someone with expertise in a technology that has only been around for the last 1-2 years? How do you expect there to be a bunch of experts on this technology? How do you expect recent graduates to be familiar with the technology that their college curriculum hasn’t even caught up to yet?
It’s not possible. So you might want to start adjusting your hiring, recruitment, and staff development processes, because that’s how you shrink the talent gap, by creating the talent yourself.