Tonight’s NYT gives us a piece that can serve as a follow-on to our post earlier today. Read the article, “Ransomware Attacks Are Testing Resolve of Cities Across America“.
Month: August 2019
Ransomware
A useful new article was linked this morning in one of my tech newsletters. The writer says: “Ransomware is everything bad about humanity distilled into malware—maliciousness, greed, and casual incompetence.” Yes, ransomware is one of those modern scourges — along with climate change, trade wars, impending economic collapse, foolish and divisive political leaders, and more — that we need to add to our list of apocalyptic existential threats for which we must learn how to take mitigating and hopefully preventative measures.
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Thinking About Privacy Again, Continued
[deleted — Despite being sourced from an individual who is a Silicon Valley information technology professional, several others have come forward to show that the content was obsolete and ineffective (just not “harmful” in itself). Apologies. Move along, nothing to see here.]
Thinking About Privacy Again
- Marketplace’s (American Public Media) Make Me Smart weekly podcast (also available from most all of the usual podcast sources; I usually do Google [gulp] Podcasts):
2. And yet another Facebook connection: https://www.pbs.org/video/risky-bets-1565730682/
A little side note: I must confess that only one computer in our household is currently experimenting with some of the potentially more benign tools like the Brave browser and DuckDuckGo searches.
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Too hot. Stayed mostly indoors today as temp went to 103 F. at our house. But Ivi called (!!!) and that reminds me of this piece that was published, also today:
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