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.
Complete Listing of Technology Articles
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Be Thou My Vision — What’s Up With Bible Gateway?
Bible Gateway, which was once one of the premier Bible applications, is today struggling, beriddled with technical bugs and distracted from its mission. Since the introduction of the printing press, the Bible has been a best-seller. So it was no surprise when one of the first things to see traveling over the Internet was the…
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Censorship: What is Hidden?
What the world needs to know about Australia’s Censorship Regime. The case of the Wakely knife attack on a Christian priest.
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Parler Reborn. What happens to your personal information?
Ever wonder what happens to your information when a website goes out of business? Our personal information is an asset, and assets sell. Such is the case of Parler.
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The Trials of Alaska Communications (ACS)
For most of my IT career I worked in some aspect of security. I have seen some pretty strange stuff but ranking near the top is the way ACS handles the customer’s password.
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Big Tech Cancellation: The Case of the Racist Doorbell
What do you do when Big Tech cuts off your access to security and communication services?
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The Internet is Slow – Is It Just You?
What do you do when the internet service suddenly gets really slow? Is it your computer? Is it your router? Or is it the internet provider? Where do you begin?
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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
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Out of Control? – Security Vulnerabilities in Control Systems
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,…