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]Microsoft got into a bit of trouble earlier this month when some folks who installed the Windows 10 update got a bit of surprise when it deleted all of the user’s documents. It took Microsoft a while to admit that it was their fact, thereby increasing the damage, but they did remove the offending update […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Poorly Secured Family of Adult Web Sites Leak Account Info For those people who can think back to the hack of the Ashley Madison web site, this is kind of deja vu all over again. 100 megabytes of user authentication data was leaked – user names, IP addresses, passwords and email addresses. Not THE most […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Internet of Things (IoT) is new to consumers. We think of Nest thermostats and Internet connected baby monitors. That is true and they cause enough grief out there like last year when they took down parts of Amazon and Twitter (and hundreds of other sites) when malware attacked these poorly protected devices and used […]
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]Parental controls are generally a good thing. Except when it blocks the wrong sites and lets the bad sites through. So what is Apple doing in this case? Sites that are blocked: Scarleteen and O.school, which are sex education sites and Teen Vogue. Sites that are OK: The Daily Stormer, a neo-nazi site that publishes […]
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