In other words, VW created a backdoor, and assumed that it would remain hidden. But it did not.
Backdoors are bad, and anyone who thinks they should be required to allow law enforcement access should be forced to take personal responsibility when something like this happens.
There’s a lot of good stuff in here for managers, and CEOs and anyone who has people who work for them, but I wanted to highlight this one: 2. Really have your employees’ backs. With mental health issues so common, it’s not a matter of if your employees will ever need support, it’s a matter…
Just because you are working in the comfort of your own home for now, doesn’t mean you should be any less aware and on the lookout for, phishing attempts. In fact, you should probably be even more alert. “”For now, individuals are going to be a lot more targeted because they know there’s going to…
Remember when social networks first came about, and the basic idea was that, as a user, you chose who you wanted to follow, and then your feed, or timeline, etc. showed you what just those people had shared, in reverse chronological order? Had they stuck with that, there would be a lot less to complain…
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This is the crux of the problem. Personal information is going to be breached, eventually. There is no 100% secure data. None. No business, government entity, non-profit, or any other place that collects and stores data is completely secure. The only true security for personal information is to not have it. To have not collected it or delete it once it’s no longer needed.
That is the radical re-think that is necessary. It’s also the complete opposite of everything these organizations have been taught and incentivized to do. If we are going to pass federal privacy laws, this should be the central theme.