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Eric Niewoehner and his Tablet
Me, my tablet, and my passion for birds

While I would love to write fiction every day, thirty-eight years of IT experience makes it difficult not to comment on what I observe in the IT world. The world breathes on social media. It affects what we know, what we think, and what we do. We are seeing before us how social media, with all it’s potential, can show the worst in humanity. Despite its fundamental propensity toward freedom, it can also be used to apply the most penetrating censorship and control. IT has introduced phenomenal innovation, yet with this new technology we face new challenges.

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  • Why The Facebook Safe Space

    Why form a website to discuss Facebook? Why not discuss issues on Facebook itself?

    January 24, 2023
  • Facebook — Impersonated Accounts

    As a Facebook user, probably the most frequent scam I encounter are impersonated accounts.

    January 14, 2023
  • A Play on Words

    The question that one must ask is not what is offensive, but what will happen when the inevitable sin is committed

    December 27, 2022
  • Spam Update — How to Avoid Spam

    Just as in the real thing, spam comes in many different flavors. First published December 19, 2018 Updated December 6, 2022 Gosh – it is amazing how time flies. Back in November 2016 I posted a  blog on avoiding spam. How about an update? Did what I predict work or not? One of the key things…

    December 6, 2022
  • Facebook — A Sickening Feeling

    The news of government collusion with Facebook is not surprising, but still disappointing.  What is your response?

    November 12, 2022
  • Can PayPal Be Trusted?

    How can you trust a business that arbitrarily, without explanation, suspends your service?

    October 27, 2022

Complete Listing of Articles

  • Facebook — Impersonated Accounts

    January 14, 2023

    As a Facebook user, probably the most frequent scam I encounter are impersonated accounts.

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  • A Play on Words

    December 27, 2022

    The question that one must ask is not what is offensive, but what will happen when the inevitable sin is committed

    Read more
  • Spam Update — How to Avoid Spam

    December 6, 2022

    Just as in the real thing, spam comes in many different flavors. First published December 19, 2018 Updated December 6, 2022 Gosh – it is amazing how time flies. Back in November 2016 I posted a  blog on avoiding spam. How about an update? Did what I predict work or not? One of the key things…

    Read more
  • Facebook — A Sickening Feeling

    November 12, 2022

    The news of government collusion with Facebook is not surprising, but still disappointing.  What is your response?

    Read more
  • Can PayPal Be Trusted?

    October 27, 2022

    How can you trust a business that arbitrarily, without explanation, suspends your service?

    Read more
  • Are You Ready to Rumble?

    August 24, 2022

    Is it possible that Rumble may one day challenge YouTube?

    Read more
  • The Alaskan Congressional Rodeo

    May 31, 2022

    A peculiar election. Ever walked out into the wilderness and get struck at how quiet it is? You hear no birds, only a gentle breeze in the trees. That happens often in Alaska. This election is sort of like that.

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  • The Gift of Gab

    April 26, 2022

    What is Gab?  It is a competitor to Twitter, yet twice deplatformed from the Internet.  Is this justice or simply pure monopoly power pushing out the competition

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  • Facebook – What Say You?

    April 22, 2022

    The case of Alaska Watchman being punished by Facebook for dispensing “misinformation.” They are in good company.

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  • What’s Up with Parler

    April 18, 2022

    Will Parler survive? Parler is part of the monopolistic fringe, small companies that eat away at the edges of empire.

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  • Out of Control? – Security Vulnerabilities in Control Systems

    April 5, 2022

    Control Systems.  Are they possibly the biggest security vulnerability? By now almost everyone has seen the news media on the cyberattacks stemming from Russia. So far nothing dastardly has occurred at the same scale of the Colonial Pipeline fiasco in 2021. That event involved the deployment of ransomware across the corporate network. As a precaution,…

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  • The Case of Lorie Smith

    March 22, 2022

    Can a web designer be compelled to create content?

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  • The Case of Josh Renaud

    March 2, 2022

    Accused of hacking a website of the State of Missouri, a journalist and his newspaper are being charged for criminal activity.

    Read more
  • SHAKEN, But Not STIRred

    January 23, 2022

    What to do with those mysterious links in text messages. A closer look at a new protocol that may help reduce spam and scam. The new protocol is called STIR/SHAKEN.

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  • Can GoDaddy Be Trusted?

    September 13, 2021

    As business owners and managers or IT consultants, you have to seriously evaluate the nature of content being communicated over the Internet. If there is any possibility of risk of censorship, the effects could be catastrophic

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  • Tracking Scams in Phone Messages

    July 15, 2021

    Ever wonder how to respond to a suspicious message? Here are a few tips on how to learn more about the scammers.

    Read more
  • Ransomware and the Mechanical Pencil

    July 10, 2021

    Review of the WannaCry ransomware attack of 2017 and what is fundamentally wrong with how we utilize operating systems.

    Read more
  • Disaster Recovery — The Case of Parler

    February 18, 2021

    The day has now arrived where you will need to have alternative cloud and DNS registry platforms, as well as other redundancies.

    Read more
  • Why Parler?

    January 26, 2021

    Elements of the Internet have obviously evolved to the status of “common carrier”. What was done to Parler violates, fundamentally, the principle of free speech. But it also demonstrates the monopolistic power of what is coined as Big Tech: Apple, Google, Amazon and an array of powerful Internet companies that can erase your existence on…

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  • Transparency

    January 21, 2021

    Now we have the Internet – where will it lead? Will we be mature enough, as a society, to handle the ongoing presentation of raw information? Will reactionary mobs be the norm, or can we engineer a system of governance that can more effectively respond to raw information?

    Read more
  • CVS Update

    January 10, 2021

    Follow-up article on Computer Vision Syndrome, a debilitating malady that can affect your performance at work.

    Read more
  • Windows 10 and Computer Vision Syndrome

    November 27, 2018

    Coping with Computer Vision Syndrome is a constant challenge, especially when operating systems change. This focuses on Windows 10.

    Read more
  • Fake News Update

    August 13, 2018

    You, and no one else, are the best protection against fake news.  Educate yourself.

    Read more
  • Solution to Fake News

    August 6, 2018

    A continuation of an earlier discussion on Fake News. How is the best way to identify it and to fight it?

    Read more
  • Computer Vision Syndrome

    April 17, 2018

    A modern day phenomena, computer vision syndrome has emerged to be one of the predominant side-effects of prolonged computer usage.  Follow my journey of what is often a painful experience, yet gain from my experience and that of many others.

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  • Passwords – the Gremlins of Cyberspace

    February 20, 2017

    Passwords. They may be too weak, whatever that means. They may be too many, each having to conform to a password standard of a particular web site. They are forgotten, confused and yet hacked by somebody out there. What is it with passwords? Can we master these little devils?

    Read more
  • Spam Filtering: Mastering Your E-mail

    November 1, 2016

    It is now a fact of life that e-mail traffic is largely spam, unwanted solicitations for your time and money, if not worse. Spam cannot be avoided, but it can be controlled.

    Read more
  • E-mail: A Method to the Madness

    October 30, 2016

    I had finished writing this piece when the latest blow-up over the Clinton e-mails grabbed the headlines.  I’ll speak on that later because what I wrote below pertains to them as much as to you.  Needless to say, whether you are Sarah Palin or Hillary Clinton, how you handle e-mail has significant repercussions.

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  • Sustainable Printing

    July 1, 2016

    One fear to dispel, from the outset, is that changing how your printer is setup does not put everybody in an environmentally-friendly straight-jacket. You will discover there are plenty of ways to over-ride default printer settings so that the printing operation fits your needs, yet provides ways to print more efficiently with less impact on the environment.

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