David Strom was at UCLA when I worked there in the 80s.  He was also writing a column for PC Magazine and other publications.  Since then, he has gone on in independent practice to become a noted expert in the computer security industry.  Today, his newsletter cites one of the latest threats and warns us again of the need to better manage our passwords, a subject that can never be overemphasized.  Read: https://blog.strom.com/wp/?p=7287

Reuters now tells us that some recently-disclosed Facebook operations are raising even more privacy concerns.  Read more here.  And see today’s HTG’s comments.

[If you want to track down some of my previous reports and diatribes about Facebook, start with this link:  http://whilebusy.com/?s=facebook]

 

The How-To Geek explains:

How Email Bombing Uses Spam to Hide an Attack

 

Some of you are probably familiar with my rants around fake news and lies in politics and about social media manipulation.  Our household has also been apprehensive and takes great care around online product and entertainment reviews.  Today, the How-To-Geek takes on the latter.

The MIT Technology Review reports on findings from experiments that suggest that objective reality does not exist.  (As many of us have suspected.)

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Here’s a piece on one of my personal pet peeves: misuse of the term “exponential”.

From Merriam-Webster:

The Guardian gives us this recent piece on “Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth“.