Archive for the ‘privacy’ Category
Can You Fix My Grammar While Reading My Emails?
According to a new Proofpoint study of 220 leaders at American companies with over 1,000 employees, 38% employ staff to read or otherwise analyze the content of outgoing email, compared to 29% last year. Why the big increase in surveillance? 34% said their businesses had been affected by the exposure of sensitive or embarrassing information, up from 23% in 2008.
Dear outbound email reader. While you are reading my emails, can you look into the way I write my emails? Simply correct any spelling and grammar mistakes.
Thank You!
I’m sure that I asked for it in the past, and there might be a Feature Request somewhere…
Amex – Where is PCI?
Ok – so this stuff bugs me. Whenever a company sets up standards for others to live by but fails to live up to the same standards themselves I get annoyed. Amex is the “bully” in point.
See http://www.kpho.com/money/19936013/detail.html for a story in which two guys who worked at Amex were able to abscond with “thousands” of credit card number and “millions” of customer dollars.
I have two Amex cards. So I went to the Amex website to figure out if my card was somehow exposed. NADA. Not a single word anywhere on the site (perhaps I missed it?).
What is the use of PCI if one of the three card peddlers (Visa and Mastercard being the other two) reflect an attitude of indifference towards protecting MY data.
Wake up Amex CEO: Kenneth I. Chenault. I entrust you with my data. It is time for you to protect it! Mighty nice of you to harrass others with odd PCI requirements. Perhaps it is time you pass a PCI audit yourself.
/al
Secure Internet Browsing
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There is no such thing as absolute security. Security is relative and multidimensional. If you follow my advice, you will be relatively more secure than you were before.
More than that, you will probably be more secure than the rest of the pack. This is very important, for the reasons I already mentioned in the story about the bear.
The scenario I want to cover is this very common one:
- You use a single browser on a single machine
- You browse to “random” sites as well as browse to a small number of “secure” sites – your bank perhaps. There’s a clear distinction between the two.
How Resumes Lie
Do these lies work? In most cases, no. Most companies disqualified candidates after discovering their dishonest. Thirty-six percent still considered the candidate, but ultimately passed on hiring them. Six percent of hiring managers overlooked the “flawed resume” and hired the applicant anyway.
- 38 percent of those surveyed indicated they had embellished their job responsibilities
- 18 percent admitted to lying about their skill set
- 12 percent indicated they had been dishonest about their start and end dates of employment
- 10 percent confessed to lying about an academic degree
- 7 percent said they had lied about the companies they had worked for
- 5 percent disclosed that they had been untruthful about a job title
Despeite The Lack Of Privacy, I’m Using Chrome
The folks at consumerwatchdog.org are doing a very important job, keeping vendors honest and consumers alerts. The following video highlights some of the privacy issues with Chrome. I agree that Google should have warned Chrome users. I am sure that they will. Yet, I will continue to use Chrome (since I have nothing to hide). If I need to keep my privacy, I’ll use another tool.