Why is this important? Let me put this in concrete, or simplistic terms, for you. Lets start off with 5 companies that all make widgets. We will call them A, B, C, D, and E. A, B, and C have most of the widget market while D and E are niche players who provide customized… Continue reading Outsourcing – A Cautionary Tale
Diversity needs to go further than just HR. It needs to extend to our supply chains. Me COVID has brought out the worst in many areas. Its shown us how fragile supply chains for critical items like food and medicine are. In this case, a great many prescription and non-prescription medications are made either wholly… Continue reading Rethinking Publicly Traded Companies
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry S. Truman I… Continue reading COVID Contact Tracing Used to Trace Protestors
Ok, so I don’t exactly have my shocky face on for this but a lot of Police and other security agencies got hacked through a supplier. Given the poor security at the city, county, state, and, all too often, federal levels of government, digital government should scare everyone. This time the supply chain vendor was… Continue reading Government Susceptible to Supply Chain Hacking
Developers have never, traditionally, had to consider security. Getting their code to run was their only concern. Yet under the DevOps (not DevSecOps) model they have been tasked with configuring things to run “in the Cloud” with little to no security training and no security practice. Yet their actions have real world consequences. Every company… Continue reading Why Security is Important and Why DevOps Should Scare You
Only 27% of the data about you held by government agencies is encrypted in the Europen Union. With GDPR, you’d think that Europe would be more secure. A recent study says that 97% of businesses and other entities in Europe “use sensitive personal data” as part of their digital transformation. In short moving from paper… Continue reading Why Digital Government Should Scare You
Social media is the scourge of the 21st century Me In an effort to stop the Chinese disnformation campaign about Hong Kong, Tiwan, COVID and others, Twitter has shut down and removed 23,000 primary accounts and are investigating another 150,000 who act as amplifiers, retweeting the disinformation. Adding to the problem is the Russian disinformation… Continue reading Twitter Shuts Down Thousands of Chinese, Russian and Turkish Accounts
IT would not exist without the space program. My entire industry owes its existence to the space program. It currently provides about 1/4th of the worlds economy. Me Let’s talk about the Space Program for a moment and why I think going to Mars is desperately important for us economically. My industry, IT, spawned directly… Continue reading Support The Space Program
How many lifetimes of ‘free credit monitoring’ do I have already? Companies aren’t going to fix their security problems until it costs them money. Me Every time these corporate ostriches get breached and there is a class action law suit, there is a very predicatable sequence of events. I get compensated with free credit monitoring… Continue reading ¤/(&/!”#¤ Crappy Security
It is hacked… again. Its just that Apple doesn’t like admitting it. Shlayer Mac is back….. and sneakier than ever. Its hiding out currently as Flash Player installer on poisoned web sites. Visit the site… get told you need Flash Player…the ‘installer’ downloads… you run it… and voila! You are pwnd and all your cpu… Continue reading For the Apple Fanbois who keep say Mac can’t be hacked
