Voting
Voting In 2020, NASA placed a robotic rover, Perseverance, on Mars to explore the planet’s surface and atmosphere. Perseverance landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, carrying a small helicopter, Ingenuity, in its belly. The mission aims to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples for future return to Earth. Ingenuity’s role was […]
How Do We Stop the Hackers?
Written: December 16, 2021 Major information technology (IT) breaches are becoming a daily occurrence. The news coverage has centered on hacking and hackers. The bigger story, in my opinion, is the failure of government and business leaders to prevent the hacking. The news coverage at times makes it sound like the problem is the […]
Who Is Responsible For Hacker Problems?
The latest major information technology (IT) breach is outrageous. The news coverage has centered on the hackers and ransomeware. The bigger story, in my opinion, is the incompetence of Colonial Pipeline. It got major coverage because of the key dependence of the eastern coast of America for gasoline. I hear people saying the problem is […]
Facebook and Congress
Security and privacy of our online presence is vitally important, perhaps more so than we may realize at this stage of the evolution of social media. It is similar to patient safety and quality in healthcare; there is no room for compromise, and neglect can be catastrophic. I was quite involved in the subject of […]
Equifax: Further Outrage
We should be outraged by the incompetence of Equifax, as suggested earlier. They were not the victim, we were. Nearly half the population of America may have given up personal information to thieves, a lot of information. Now that some details are emerging, there is even more to be outraged about. The Wall Street […]
