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The marketing company's web page literally advertised: "It's True. Your Devices Are Listening to You." The page has been removed from their website, but it's archived: https://web.…

Insecure people should be banned, not security tools like firearms.

The author's argument about SoC is not convincing. He: "is, in my polite opinion, completely wrong". The graybeards are right on this one. For those of us who remember working with…

1. "Did you mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees?" 2. "Would you allow an employee who has acquired a concealed-carry license to arm herself on company property?" 3. "Do you don…

We're lying to ourselves if we believe anything Google claims about respecting privacy. Unless your data is encrypted when you give it to the monster, and you can know with certain…

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The cardinal virtues - prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance - help protect the "mind and character" from addiction or disordered attachment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C…

I don't think the DHS has ever really defended the homeland - unless it's Washington DC and the tyrants who make it their home.

I regret hearing the lies spoken during sex education when I was in fifth grade in 1987. The public school I was forced to attend brought in a sociologist to do the damage. She tol…

* Getting Real, by 37signals: Gave me confidence to side-step a lot of the bs I saw in software development practice * The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks: Provided an argument aga…