Shared Links (weekly) Feb 8, 2026
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Linked – Man Finds USB Drive With Vital Security Information on Heathrow Airport
This is less than ideal, but honestly, I’ve worked in the industry long enough to totally see how it happens. Someone needed to take this somewhere, or send it to someone, and just copied it without giving a second thought to what would happen if it got lost. “Now we can add Heathrow Airport to…
Linked – Demand for secret messaging apps is rising as Trump takes office
““When we talked about the revelations of Snowden, it was hard to convince some folks on the progressive side to care,” said Josh Levy, advocacy director of Access Now, a nonprofit that runs a digital security hotline to counsel activists around the world on how to avoid surveillance. “I would talk to folks about the…
Linked: One Easy Thing All Bosses Should Do During Mental Illness Awareness Week (Most Probably Won’t)
Amy Morin has one simple idea that will help get you started on making the workplace more supportive of mental health issues your employees may be facing: So the simplest and most effective thing every boss can do during Mental Illness Awareness Week is to make employees aware of free online screening tools offered by Mental Health America. There’s no debating…
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Linked: Shortage in mental health services fans flames of employee burnout
Use your vacation days, encourage the people who work for you to use their vacation days. Putting anything work-related above the need we all have for time away from work, is surely one road to burnout. There are many others, some of which you can’t do anything about by yourself, but this is one you control. And it’s easy enough to do and to allow your people to do.
Linked – Looks like genAI may kill the IT help desk and other IT jobs!
On a deeper level, though, I remember that before I got into eDiscovery and legal tech, I worked in tech support. Many of the smartest people in legal and cybersecurity started at a helpdesk. It’s the starting point for many long and successful IT careers. So, what will the next generation of tech workers be missing if that role goes away?
