by Jay Garmon
on Feb 17, 2012
in Data Loss Examples
Last week, the mobile social network Path became the poster child for mobile apps that pirate users’ smartphone address books. While this is a pretty clear data ownership violation, it’s also a rather serious security issue — and not simply because iOS has silent access to your address book. Your address book is the Holy Grail [...]
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by Jay Garmon
on Feb 13, 2012
in Backups
The always on-point Tom’s Guide techblog (I’m old enough to remember when it was Tom’s Hardware) has a list of 10 reasons you’ll be on Google+ in a year. While I agree with the arguments presented, it’s a misleading title, because there are really only two reasons, it’s just that one of them is phrased [...]
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