Software: Professional Software Engineer licensure
Does the CrowdStrike fiasco imply a need for Professional Engineer licensing for software engineers working on critical infrastructure?
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Software: Crowdstrike never heard of pilot testing and phased rollouts
Crowdstrike takes down the entire world.
Crime: Telemarketering scams and spam
Scams and spammers have taken over the phone networks to the point we should no longer answer calls.
Security: Denver PD to respond to 911 calls via drones
Call 9-1-1 – get a drone overhead: DRONES to be introduced into Denver police to help respond to 911 calls after city defunded the force by millions | Daily Mail…
Software: White House says stop using C/C++
White House urges developers to dump C and C++ | InfoWorld But will this halt climate change and save us from the ClimateCrisis?
Privacy: NSA – All Your Data Is Belong To Us
NSA secretly buying Americans’ data without a warrant – Washington Times
Smartphones: Google to end cloud storage of location data
Google to end cloud storage of phone location data and store it only on the phone device itself. Thus, no longer accessible to police dragnets.
Smart phones: Google’s Find My Device Network
Apple has had Air Tags for some time, and Samsung has it’s Smart Tags. Both are small devices that are detectable by Apple iPhones (for Air Tags) or Samsung phones…
Should we all be “preppers”?
Preppers is the term given to those who plan for disasters – for some, like us, this means the ordinary situation like power outages, while for others, it is preparing…
Crime, Security: Property Crime seems to run rampant in major U.S. cities
Portland, Oregon San Francisco Elsewhere An increase in shoplifting crime is blamed on An increase in shoplifting and property vandalism are reportedly spreading to other countries. Recent crime data itself…