WOO ON TECH

While I know I should be grateful that it’s a slow news week for technology, it makes writing this blog a little challenging. However there are a few bits of news that may be of interest to at least some of you. Taken individually, each item is probably not worth more than a “Hmph” from

It used to be a simple topic to explain: if the hacking attempt to undermine or subvert a government entity was sponsored by another country, it was considered cyberwarfare, and if by a geo-political group, (but not a recognized nation) cyber-terrorism. Everything else fell into the lesser evil that was Spam used by desperate marketers,

If the past few weeks haven’t opened your eyes to the Facebook monster, let me share a picture with you that will be worth way more words than I could possibly write. Go ahead. Click on that picture and take a good look. That’s an actual screenshot of my Facebook account settings. And no, I

It might seem hyperbolic to use this particular phrase when talking about Facebook, but it’s pretty clear from recent news that we are in fact in an abusive relationship with the world’s largest social media platform and we are the abused. What’s particularly gross about this is that we opted into this dysfunctional, lopsided relationship,