Crash Course – Navigating Digital Information
So the introduction, below, identifies the problem. Basically, we’re pretty terrible at identifying misleading information on the internet, and this is not a new thing either. We’ve always been pretty terrible. Subsequent episodes will help solve that problem by teaching … Continued
What We Could Do With Social Media – Relocate Without Disposable Relationships
Now that I’m living in my 5th different state, (New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Oregon and Louisiana) I guess I could be considered a serial mover. I’ve relocated a few times in my lifetime so when I see articles like … Continued
Marriott Hack Shows The Risk of Our Surveillance Society
Mashable asked the question that many of you may have had when you learned one of the more recently reported details of the Marriott/Starwood hack. “Why do hotels collect and store passports?” The answer they came up with turned out … Continued
Why Use a Password Manager – To Help Others Access When You Can’t
Aside from the bajillion reasons to use a password manager, like LastPass, KeePass, etc. when it comes to security, there’s one other really big reason to do it. First off, let’s go ahead and acknowledge that there are good reasons … Continued
Linked – Google Plus Demise Could Put Data on Legal Hold in Jeopardy
I hadn’t thought of this but it really does set a hard deadline for preserving data, doesn’t it? “The move puts a bit of a clock on attorneys and e-discovery professionals looking to salvage data from the platform that could … Continued
Linked – Revealed: Human Error, Not Hackers, to Blame for Vast Majority of Data Breaches
These breaches don’t hit the news cycle in the same way, but they are a lot more common, and they’re just stupid careless mistakes for the most part. “Some 2,124 reports could be attributed to human error, compared to just … Continued
We Have All The Tech Tools to Connect that We Could Ask For, Yet There’s a Loneliness Epidemic
I’m sure by now you’ve seen the headlines all over the place. I’m only going to link one: New Study Shows Most Americans Are Lonely We have, in the last 150 or so years, (Since the invention of the telephone), … Continued