Maybe the TJ MAXX breach didn’t scare you because you don’t shop there. Maybe the Target breach didn’t scare you because you don’t shop there. Maybe the Yahoo breach didn’t scare you because you never opened an account. The RNC data breach probably didn’t scare you, even though Time and other outlets report the information contained date of birth along with your address and an RNC ID, simply because you never heard of it, but, … Do You Really Think Any of the On-line Services Keep Your Identity Information Safe?Read more
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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 6
The Backup Script As I started to get back into this I realized I skipped one final yet critical piece of the system. The backup script. I imagine some of you questioned where I got the csv files for Postgres to import. As I said, one of the main reasons I went with Postgres all of those years ago is that I was tired of dealing with the oddities of backup and restore with DBF … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 6Read more
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Dominionists Inside the Gates
We’ve all heard the stories about “shadow governments” and “puppet masters” pulling the strings from behind the curtain of Washington. Most of us have been conditioned to believe these stories come from conspiracy theorists who wear armadillo hats, line both dwellings and vehicles with aluminum foil to prevent eavesdropping, and have their fillings removed all to stop “the infamous they” from spying on them. Of course, recent verified revelations about massive identity thefts the Snowden … Dominionists Inside the GatesRead more
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The Ever Shrinking Definition of Fully Equipped
As a traveling consultant I spend a lot of time in extended stay type hotels. Unless I’m traveling to a client site where I’ve worked previously I tend to spend the first month or more at these types of places. It is best to leave both yourself and the client an escape hatch. Sadly many of these types of places either don’t bother to read the IRS per-diem publications or believe the combined food and … The Ever Shrinking Definition of Fully EquippedRead more