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Reading – From Skateboards to Drug Pumps, Welcome to Our Hackable Future

ByMike McBride August 20, 2015August 20, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

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 worse is the ability of hackers to actually take control of those devices, especially when talking about medical devices, or transportation. Given the number of hacks that have already been reported, and the severity of them, I have little faith that anyone can truly protect our information or devices.

Maybe I’m just a pessimist. What do you think?

From Skateboards to Drug Pumps, Welcome to Our Hackable Future

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Linked: It’s 2020: Why Is The Internet Still Treated Like A Luxury, Not A Utility?
ByMike McBride November 2, 2020November 1, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is in New York City, so I think we know this is probably even worse in other cities around the US, right? “Unsurprisingly, New Yorkers with lower incomes are more likely to lack high-speed internet access: a 2019 study by comptroller Scott Stringer’s office found that 44% of New Yorkers in poverty have no…

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Linked – Junior tech workers can’t find jobs. Are coding boot camps in trouble?
ByMike McBride July 15, 2024July 14, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The job market for people who can write code has fallen apart. Partly because of AI and partly because companies over-invested in engineers and tools that never could be as successful as they thought. (Remember when we were all going to be hanging out in the metaverse?) Of course, the people running these companies weren’t held accountable for those choices, but I’m past hoping that will ever happen.

So, now the mantra will be “learn AI,” at least until that market isn’t everything companies are currently promising and we go through this whole thing again.

It’s best not to get comfortable with anything in the current tech marketplace. The skills in high demand today won’t be those in high demand five years from now. If you’re entering college and embarking on a technology major, the tech will be changed by the time you graduate.

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Linked – E-Discovery Work Moves In-House to Cut Costs, Survey Finds
ByMike McBride May 15, 2018May 14, 2018 Reading Time: 1 minute

Even though I work at one of those outside law firms, this has always made total sense to me: “The survey also found that bringing the e-discovery process in-house is a common and effective way to control spending. Seventy-five percent of the respondents said they are using the technique to control e-discovery costs, and it was given…

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What I’m Sharing (weekly)
ByMike McBride May 19, 2019May 19, 2019 Reading Time: 1 minute

And Now The Prime Minister Of Canada Is Threatening To Fine Social Media Companies Over ‘Fake News’ “”Fake news” tends to be whatever top government officials declare it is.” What advice do you wish you’d gotten when you graduated from college? Feds: Autopilot was active during deadly March Tesla crash Apparently, we still have some…

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Recover Deleted Items Using OWA
ByMike McBride October 21, 2010August 26, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

Filing this under “you never stop learning new things”. Thanks to a post on one of the ILTA eGroups, I discovered a neat little trick that lets you use Outlook Web Access to recover deleted items that were “hard deleted” directly from the inbox and thus are not available using the normal Outlook Recover Deleted…

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Linked: Remote Work Doesn’t Have to Mean All-Day Video Calls
ByMike McBride September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

As I look at the workplaces that have remained remote, versus the ones who couldn’t wait to get back to “normal”, I suspect this has a lot to do with the difference: “The Covid-19 crisis has distanced people from the workplace, and employers have generally, if sometimes reluctantly, accepted that people can work effectively from…

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Charlotte Patin says:

August 21, 2015 at 5:01 am

I agree with you.

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