We are a data addicted culture. This story is a testament to that fact. Last month the security firm Avast tried an experiment. They set up a series of open (meaning free and not password protected) WiFi hotspots at the Barcelona Airport as people were arriving for the Mobile World Congress. Why? To see if […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes you read something and it just ruins your mood. For fellow business travelers, this will be one of those posts. I guess I was burying my head in the sand up until now. This makes perfect sense even though I wasn’t thinking it through. The WiFi on a plane, whether it is GoGo like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Asus is an international manufacturer of all kinds of computer and networking equipment. The FTC, in this case, was not upset with Asus for making hardware that was buggy and not secure, thereby exposing customer’s information, but rather representing that their routers had numerous security features that could protect users from unauthorized access and hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some people are big advocates of open source because, they say, since people can look at the source, bugs are found more quickly. I am not a big supporter of that theory even though I am a supporter of open source because just because people CAN look at the source, doesn’t mean that they will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I went in to my local grocery store tonight and went to use my credit card and poof – something new. A couple of details first. My credit card is actually a Visa logoed debit card meaning that, in theory, you should be able to use it as a debit or credit card. Debit with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some businesses have complained that the FTC has not been clear about what is required in order to be in compliance of section 5 of the FTC act and avoid being fined. California, usually a leader in the privacy arena, has begun to put some detail to those requirements, at least for businesses that have […]
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