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Chip Shortages = Shipping Delays and Backorders
Another week and more bad news. Most of the world’s technology relies on several key chip manufacturers that are located in Asia, and in case you hadn’t heard, they were rocked by the Pandemic fairly early on in 2020. This has created a massive shortfall in semiconductor production which, when coupled with the spike in demand
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Another Day, Another Vulnerability
We’ll keep it short and sweet this week. Earlier this year, an advanced form of spyware was discovered on a small group of Middle-Eastern journalists’ iPhones that was eventually traced back to a developer in Isreal called NSO Group. Purportedly designed for law enforcement agencies to combat terrorism, the spyware known as Pegasus appears to
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Password and Account Madness
Warning: this article will melt your brain. Consume in small portions and rest frequently. Or skip to the end for the simple advice. In the not so distant past of technology, the account name you used to access your service or software was usually a single word. Sometimes it was your name, or some variation
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Should you limit what you do with your phone?
Today’s smartphones are incredibly powerful. If you are savvy enough, and determined, you could probably do a good portion of your office job and manage most, if not all of your personal life just via a late model smartphone. Even someone like me can do a significant amount of work via smartphone. The tools are
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T-Mobile breached again
Most Americans have stopped keeping count but this will be the fifth or sixth data breach for T-Mobile, the second largest mobile service network in the United States. In case you’ve forgotten or gotten it confused with the 12 other breaches you may have been a part of recently, the previous T-Mobile breach included PII
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Privacy should be free but it’s not
For the dwindling few of my clients who had any energy left to be outraged at something, a recent article from Forbes highlighting Google’s rather blatant disregard for user privacy energized at least a handful of them to delete the Gmail app from their iPhones. For the rest of you who haven’t encountered this story
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