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Facebook doesn’t care about your privacy
Last year was not a good year for Facebook. Starting with the Cambridge Analytica, the social media giant seemed to stumble through a series of gaffes that literally erased billions from Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth. Yet, here we are again with the social media giant continuing to act with cavalier indifference towards its users’ privacy, and
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Google – Big, Profitable and…Stupid?
Full disclosure – I’ve long been a fan of many of Google’s services. I’ve used Gmail since the first beta, rely on Google search all day long, use a Pixel as my smartphone and listen to music all day long through their music service. It pains me when my favorite tech brands make poor choices,
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Working Remotely Requires Planning and Prep
There is nothing like severe weather to make you appreciate the benefits of a highly mobile workforce, whether you are the worker, safely ensconced in a warm & dry location, or the business owner, suddenly managing a half-empty office but confident the wheels of commerce are still turning. Thanks to declining technology costs and pervasive
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The Difference Between Remote Access and VPN
As more and more of you start to explore the possibilities of becoming part of the mobile workforce, I am frequently asked about one area in particular: How do I get access to the things I normally use at work when I’m on the road or working from home? This question is often followed up
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Nasty Bug Shuts Down FaceTime for a Week
By the time you read this, Apple will be on day two of quarantining group calls in its video chat app, FaceTime. Why? Oh, how about a nasty eavesdropping bug that would allow callers to listen in on recipients before they pick up the call? Not necessarily ground-shaking in terms of espionage or cybercrime, but
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We need to start taking “hackers” seriously
Due in large part to the wild imaginations of modern media (both Hollywood and traditional news purveyors) and the average layperson’s less-than-thorough understanding of technology, the mythos of the “internet hacker” has grown larger than life, and is all-at-once mysterious, unstoppable, merciless, mercenary and at the same time held with the same regard as the
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