For a decade the feds recommended frequent password changes. A couple of years ago NIST changed their mind and said it was the worst recommendation they ever made. Still a lot of companies and regulators require frequent password changes. Is that a good idea? Microsoft used to recommend frequent password changes. Their current guidance: According […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook Says: Give Us Your Data or Pay For Facebook That is a slight paraphrase, but not much. In light of Apple’s new requirement to ask users for their permission to steal their data, Facebook and others are mounting a full assault on their users. First of all, Facebook grossed $26 billion in the first […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ever see a scene in the movies where the cops (or the bad guys) plant a tracking device on someone and later catch the person doing something? Ever hear stories about an ex stalking his or her former partner? Well Apple just made that ‘affordable’. Probably too affordable. And folks have already tested it. Like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Talk about a political football, oh my. Florida has passed a law outlawing them. Not sure that Florida is a bastion of privacy – just wants to stick it to certain folks. But, if some other state or other company requires it, the law is meaningless. Lets say, just making something up, that New York […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The GAO, formerly known as the General Accounting Office, works for Congress and does studies of how horribly inefficient the government is. In theory, that is so Congress can create new laws to make them do what any sensible organization would do without the laws. Here is one example. The GAO reviewed the security practice […]
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