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    Newsletter Issue #881: What About Smoke Signals?

    October 17th, 2016

    Whenever I read about yet another hack of an email or credit card system, I wonder about the price of almost constant online access and what we have to give up when it comes expectations of privacy. It almost seems as if nothing is safe regardless of what you do. So I wasn’t too surprised […]


    Newsletter Issue #775: How Soon They Don’t Forget

    October 6th, 2014

    The other day I read a hit piece about Apple’s alleged poor security. First and foremost on the list was the alleged hacking of iCloud accounts to acquire stashes of explicit celebrity photos. It didn’t matter that Apple reported that these intrusions weren’t the result of any fault with iCloud, but because Internet criminals got […]


    It’s Always About Apple

    September 4th, 2014

    It rarely matters what happens in the tech business. Far too many alleged media analysts and reporters will devise a scheme to get Apple involved. And even when they appear to be involved, the truth may be different from it may seem at first glance. So we have those predictable reports in the wake of the reported hacking of […]