While this is still a bit like Jello (R) waiting to congeal, the Australian Assistance and Access Bill is designed to require back doors in encrypted communications like Whats App and iMessage. COMPANIES THAT DEVELOP SOFTWARE THAT USE END TO END ENCRYPTION NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT HAPPENS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE APPROPRIATE […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably figured out that it is a cryptocurrency (AKA Bitcoin) wallet. But there is something that makes this bitcoin wallet different from the tens of millions of Bitcoin wallets out there in the wild. Making a payment to this Bitcoin wallet may classify you a terrorist and subject you to arrest and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In general, the U.S. ranks below many third world countries in the speed, quality and cost of Internet access. If you ask your neighbors what they think about the price, speed and customer service of their internet provider , you will generally not get a positive answer. My brother lives in Europe and his internet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]From a sales and branding perspective, the last thing that smart home device manufacturers (think Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod and a raft of other) want you to worry about is whether the Feds are snarfing up your data. We do know of a few highly publicized cases like asking for smart water heater […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seema Verma, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services wants fax machines out of doctor’s offices by 2020. She wants them out of doctor’s offices because they are not cool. She wants to replace them with super-non-secure apps for your phone that are way […]
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