Linked – Study Finds Personal Data on Used Phones: How to Prevent That!
Simply “resetting” a phone does not completely wipe your data from it.
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Linked – How to Protect Your Digital Privacy in the Era of Surveillance and Public Shaming
There are some good tips in this article about protecting your privacy online, some of which might seem a bit extreme. I do, though, have one quarrel with the article that I’ve mentioned before. If you are just now concerned about online snooping because of the change in President, you simply haven’t been paying attention….
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Linked – Google Just Discovered A Massive Web Leak… And You Might Want To Change All Your Passwords
I’ve often seen career advice about just updating your resume every quarter or so as you have new things you might want to include and the updated measurements. I think maybe it’s time we just set ourselves a quarterly reminder to go change all our web-based passwords as well. It’s probably safe to assume that…
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Linked – I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.
Do I think it will reach this point? In some places, I think it will, yes. Will it get this bad in the US? I don’t know, but it will absolutely become much more common than it is. Have I ever been asked to unlock my phone and have my electronics searched when entering country?…
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Linked – WordPress hacks expose law firms’ cyber-disconnect – and, perhaps, client data
The lesson, as always, don’t use WordPress or any other web-facing technology if you aren’t going to keep up to date with it. “Earlier this month, users of the popular WordPress CMS were advised to upgrade to the latest version of the software to patch “an undisclosed critical vulnerability.” At the sound of that dogwhistle,…
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Not All Machine Learning is Good Machine Learning
I know that you’ve seen all the hype around AI and Machine Learning. It’s probably warranted. AI is in the process of making huge changes in how we work and live. Recently, though, I saw a good reminder of how much that machine learning is still dependent on the proper inputs, and of course, that…
