WOO ON TECH

In case you haven’t already seen what Deepfakes are all about, here’s a relatively harmless and entertaining demonstration of what our dark future holds: The deepfake technology first surfaced in 2017 and even at the time of its first appearance, nearly every pundit paying even minuscule amounts of attention predicted they would have significant political

Despite what Hollywood, Apple, Amazon and Google might want you to believe, accessing and securing our technology lives still takes more than scanning various body parts and shouting at inanimate objects. These fancy biometric gateways are still powered by the clumsy password mechanism that has been around for decades and will probably exist for a

Most of my clients are surprised to learned that we spend a large percentage of our troubleshooting time on password issues, and within that particular category of issues, the majority of that time is spent on recovering or resetting lost passwords. They also worry that they are unusually bad at this aspect of their professional

In my not so humble opinion, there is no lower form of life than those who take advantage of disasters and tragedy to spread misinformation, fear and hate, either for profit, political gain, or even worse, for their own entertainment. Sadly, the internet, as I have written about previously, is amazingly efficient at spreading information

It seems apropos with all the recent chatter about our country’s Constitution to discuss a well known bon mot from an eminently quotable founder, Benjamin Franklin. Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin

As you are reading this, Microsoft will have officially ended support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020. It’s a testament to the popularity of the OS that despite Windows 10 being offered as a free upgrade for any licensed copy of Windows 7 or 8, it took Windows 10 nearly 4 years to finally