Candy Alexander is used to being the only woman in a crowd. Her long and incredibly impressive career in computer security began with a 20-year stint at Compaq/Digital Equipment Corporation, rolled through Symantec Corp, a stint as an independent security consultant, plenty of time working in health care data security, [Keep reading]
John Oliver finally woke up the sleeping masses to the boring but incredibly important net neutrality discussion a few weeks ago with his brilliant, closing-argument style summation of the issue. Well, now that we’re awake, we might as well understand what’s really going on. Fortunately, Wired today began a series [Keep reading]
When 140 characters is too much, there is Yo. In one sense, Yo is a new app that lets you send two characters to anyone in your contact list — bet you can guess what those two characters are. In another sense, Yo is another sign of the apocalypse. Yo [Keep reading]
While kill-switch-friendly law enforcement officials on both coasts are patting themselves on the back over what they say is a sharp drop in iPhone thefts, the headline has been buried. Here it is: Samsung phone thefts are up 51 percent this year vs. last year. There must be quiet a [Keep reading]
If I said to you, “It’s a Small World After All,” you would inevitably start humming the tune. But if I tried to clear the musical part of your brain by suggesting another catchy tune, called “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow,” that would almost certainly be no help at [Keep reading]
There’s something primal about the reaction you have when spotting a desperate “Lost Dog” sign posted on a tree or in a coffee shop. If you’re like me, you picture a little boy crying nightly for his lost friend; a guilt-ridden parent wondering what he or she could have done; [Keep reading]
Amazon has a problem. A really, really big problem. Let me try to explain it in a small way. Imagine you owned a coffee shop, and for simplicity’s sake, you sold coffee for $1 a cup. After a really, really busy day, when you sold 750 cups of coffee, because [Keep reading]
What ailment is so devastating that its symptoms can range from an incorrect medical diagnosis, to (virtually) killing you, to hurting your kids’ chances of getting college financial aid? That distinctly digital-age malady? Identity theft. In a world of overused metaphors, this one is spot-on: If Franz Kafka were writing [Keep reading]
If you love someone, set them free. And if you respect someone, you want the best for them — whether you are with them for a week, a year, or a lifetime. In an age when employers are increasingly are using fine print to ensnare workers with less-favorable terms, such [Keep reading]
I’ve spent 20 years interviewing thousands of people who’ve fallen for scams and ripoffs. I’ve interviewed hundreds of criminals, too, not to mention pseudo-criminals who work at corporations that survive almost entirely on their ability to fool people. I’m frequently asked: what makes people fall for scams? What makes someone [Keep reading]
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