Jun 17, 2021 | law, news, Politics, Privacy, science, security
Most of the arguments against vaccine passports are just made-up crap. Like many of today’s social issues, much of the opposition to Covid vaccination certificates is not actually about things like medicine and public health (or, as I like to put it, “reality”). It is...
Jun 10, 2021 | bruceb, news
Forty years ago this week, I was eating popcorn in the middle of the tenth row at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, and I was having one of the best nights of my life. I can remember it like it was yesterday. Actually yesterday is a little hazy, but the memory...
Jun 7, 2021 | law, news, Politics, science
Before we get to the issues that are being raised as objections to vaccine passports today, there are some lessons to be learned from history about the intersection between vaccinations and privacy, security, and inequality. You think this is going to be dry and...
Jun 3, 2021 | law, news, Politics, science
My wife and I traveled to Hawaii a few days ago. It took some close study to figure out the rules: a Covid test within 72 hours of the flight from a small group of approved providers at startling expense, followed by navigation through a maze of web-based forms and...
May 16, 2021 | business, cybersecurity, law, news, security
Ransomware is big business. I mean that in the most boring way possible. Have you been following the news about the Colonial Pipeline hack? There is a nuance that sheds much light on the modern world, but to get to it I need to be sure you have the basic facts of...
Apr 19, 2021 | Apple, business, Microsoft, news, web_services
If you’re an old-timer like me, you probably have memories – maybe fond memories, maybe not – of Dragon Naturally Speaking, for many years the only dictation software for Windows that was even remotely useful. Dragon was quirky, buggy, and...
