Actually, what we’re seeing more and more is that tech companies are moving forward with amazing stuff, but not really thinking about the consequences of it being misused. Take, for example, this BBC segment about Adobe. In it, the narrator points out that the new technology Adobe is coming up with could easily be used…
The number, 300,000, is from the UK. I have no doubt a similar survey in the US would results in millions of people fitting this bill. And most of them have a similar story to tell: “She went on to explain that every Thursday she’d have to take the afternoon off and spoke to her…
This is less than ideal, but honestly, I’ve worked in the industry long enough to totally see how it happens. Someone needed to take this somewhere, or send it to someone, and just copied it without giving a second thought to what would happen if it got lost. “Now we can add Heathrow Airport to…
Having worked in all kinds of places, this makes total sense. So why do so many of us hate our open offices? The quiet chatter of colleagues and the gentle thrum of the HVAC should help us focus. The problem may be that, in our offices, we can’t stop ourselves from getting drawn into others’…
Excuse me, what? “The two custodians purportedly had over one million emails, that were 300 gigabytes of data, which would cost $30,000 to export, search, and review. Id.” Good lord, doesn’t anyone enforce responsible deletion policies? Why are these two people hanging on to a million emails? Why, why, why? This situation shouldn’t even exist, let…
This is often the case with malware – Yet the attack could the been prevented by basic IT practices, the report says. As early as 2014, the Department of Health and the Cabinet had written to NHS trusts, saying it was essential they had “robust plans” to migrate away from old software. In March and…