Linked: Coronavirus is chance to show value of remote work
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Linked: Coronavirus is chance to show value of remote work

I have mentioned before that this is going to be an interesting thing to watch going forward: Though the arrival of a novel virus isn’t the best circumstance for a company to be forced into remote work, Caplan does hope there will be an even bigger shift toward this type of professional option, because the…

Linked: A Norwegian school quit using video calls after a naked man ‘guessed’ the meeting link
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Linked: A Norwegian school quit using video calls after a naked man ‘guessed’ the meeting link

Yeah so this is maybe something to keep in mind: Last year security researchers told TechCrunch that malicious users could access and listen in to Zoom and Webex video meetings by cycling through different permutations of meeting IDs in bulk. The researchers said the flaw worked because many meetings were not protected by a passcode. Lawyers,…

Linked: Covid-19 pandemic could change the face of data privacy

Linked: Covid-19 pandemic could change the face of data privacy

There are no easy answers here. If I had the virus and Apple could dip into the location history of my phone and see who I may have come into contact with, and get to those people for early diagnosis, I might want them to do that, right? “According to published reports, the US government…