This Week’s Links
The ongoing struggle with XMLRPC led to the weekly blog links not getting posted earlier today, so here there are, manually. Here’s hoping I can get it work next week, this is too much like work. 😉
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Linked – MailChimp and Others Should Penalize Cold Emails
This caught my interest – Let’s penalize cold emails. If a recipient chooses, “I never signed up for this mailing list,” I think MailChimp and other email providers should penalize the sender, too. Maybe not with the voracity they penalize under the “this is spam” response, but if you are cold emailing (sending emails to…
Linked: Defense Department To Congress: ‘No, Wait, Encryption Is Actually Good; Don’t Break It’
But wait, there’s more. Yesterday, the Senate was threatening tech companies that they will be requiring them to break encryption. But, not everyone in the Federal government agrees: “However, it appears that other parts of the government are a bit more up to date on these things. Representative Ro Khanna has forwarded a letter to…
Linked – Tech Giants Brace for Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules
This is going to be interesting… “Ms. Jourová said as the new rules take effect, countries outside Europe could begin demanding similar data protection measures for their citizens. “There will be a moment, especially as more and more people in the U.S. find themselves uncomfortable with the channels monitoring their private lives,” she said.” I…
Linked – Smartphone Keyboards Are a Privacy Nightmare
I mean, I get it if you don’t like the default keyboard on your iPhone or Android device, but do you really want to be sharing everything you type with “random” company? “Third-party keyboards are so dangerous because they want to be “smart”. Keyboards aren’t content to just live entirely on your phone and allow…
Linked: Employees are aware of USB drive security risks, but don’t follow best practices
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Employees have been educated plenty on cybersecurity issues, they just haven’t been given enough reason to care: “While 91 percent of respondents claimed that encrypted USB drives should be mandatory, a full 58 percent of respondents confirmed that they regularly use non-encrypted USB drives Meanwhile, although…
