Tag Archives: security
How Important Is Your EMail Address To You?
Really it’s not clear to me if this is a generational thing or what, people tell me that email addresses are no longer that important to them, what with MySpace, FaceBook, and the like. Others just use SMS, where their … Continue reading
Unwitting Mules and Computers
When I first traveled through Switzerland some 16 years ago, I went to France for the day, leaving from Geneva. On entering France, the guards saw a long, curly haired, American in a rental car, and they assumed I would … Continue reading
Ole asks a great question
[not unusual for Ole, by the way.] Why does security have to be so complicated? Now knowing Ole as I do, this is of course rhetorical, but it does remind me of two conversations I’ve had. One was a long … Continue reading
A lesson in transitive trust
Growing up in the New York area in the 1970s, one never really paid attention to all the crime that occurred. There just was so much of it. Even when I lived in California, while a murder would make the … Continue reading
Can The Industry Stop break-ins on Facebook?
After my last post, a reasonable question is whether we in the industry have been goofing off on the job. After all, how could it be that someone got their account broken into? Everyone knows that passwords are a weak … Continue reading
