Encryption and how you control data your is a hot topic right now, but understanding encryption and how it relates to your personal data is confusing. YouTuber CGP Grey explains encryption, as well as some of the issues up for debate right now, as simply as possible.
If you’ve read about the debate between Apple and the government over encryption, and wondered what all the fuss is about, this video might help explain it.
Got this email earlier from IFTTT (If This Then That): On Friday, March 15th, Google Photos and its associated Applets will be removed from IFTTT. Originally built in-house by our team, the Google Photos service uses the Picasa Web Albums API, which is being deprecated. We support Google’s decisions, though we know it will be a disappointment to…
These results from the 2018 ABA Legal Technology Survey are not at all good, given how much information is laying around law firms these days. “Less than half of the responding firms have the following policies or plans that are important facets of a law firm’s security posture: computer acceptable use policy (41%); remote access…
I have to be honest, I use travel apps, as you would imagine for someone who travels as much as I do, but I hadn’t considered that using apps instead of maps and guidebooks would make it harder for criminals to mark you as a gullible tourist. When I first went to Rome a few…
Well, besides the integrated inbox and threaded conversations that we’re highlighted as new features of the iOS 4 mail program. Apparently, the Gmail integration also changed the default action of “trashing” an email. Nope, doesn’t delete it from your Gmail accounts, it archives it. Whoops! It’s not nice to change the default action without telling…
Spent most of yesterday swimming in various Access databases, will probably spend a bunch more of today doing the same thing. Our membership database software is so difficult to use that whenever I have anything more than the simplest SQL functions I wind up pulling everything out into Access and doing the functions there and…