Some in Silicon Valley breathed a sigh of relief as French voters overwhelmingly backed Emmanuel Macron as their next president over the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen. Whether that’s short-lived, however, depends on what Macron meant when he pledged to “regulate the internet” this month. Watch the people who talk about using legal means…
Watching 60 Minutes tonight, and in an interview with FBI Director James Comey, he compared Apple and Google’s plans to encrypt phones by default to having car trunks that can never be opened or houses that can never be entered, even with a court order. Except his comparisons are completely and utterly incorrect. Law enforcement,…
Craig Ball must have spent weeks prepping this presentation, but he’s doing a great job getting people to consider various EDD issues through playing Jeopardy. Talking about the Columbia Pictures-RAM case now, good example of the analysis we talked about in the last session. It was very relevant so it was required, most cases wouldn’t…
Reading a couple of things today about the anti-spyware app got me thinking more about the future of the product, and how a full release will go. There’s two thoughts running right now for me, what I want, and what I’m afraid of. What I want is it to be free, and part of Windows…
Can we really be surprised? This is why I’ve written before (Mobile Tech Developments Require Security) that while using mobile technology to replace banks for many people is possible, the security has to get better! Now with the ability to simply pay with our mobile phones, scammers ill naturally start targeting mobile phones with scams…
So after another eventful Monday at work, mostly with routine junk, email updates, and Staff Meetings that are normal for Mondays, I went home with even more work to do. No, I didn’t give Red Hat another try. After that debacle I needed to actually accomplish something, so I started work on the Job Search…