Tales from technology

  Release your VENT Thursday! C ongratulations , you made it through hump day, and your time off is just around the corner. In the spirit of exercising all your work demons before the weekend is here to improve work-life balance, I am starting a Release your vent Thursday Post. The way this works is you post your vent or send it in a message directly to me to get it out and eliminate the burden of carrying over the week's work issues into your time off,  Thank you for all your direct submissions last week. I was expecting a lot of negativity, so I was pleasantly surprised by all the positivity, and I am happy that it helped everyone having a good weekend.   My vent this week is all about accountability and the lack of it in our current environment. In our constant evolution into making things easier and more accessible, we seem to feed the need to make it all about the  ME  and less about the much-needed  US  in our modern society. There's an episode...

  Release your VENT Thursday! C ongratulations , you made it through hump day, and your time off is just around the corner. In the spirit of exercising all your work demons before the weekend is here to improve work-life balance, I am starting a Release your vent Thursday Post. The way this works is you post your vent or send it in a message directly to me to get it out and eliminate the burden of carrying over the week's work issues into your time off,  Here is mine below: Growing up in Los Angeles, I took many film industry courses that studied the beauty of the simplistic movies of the '30s and '40s, where there were minimal special effects and a higher investment made in dialogue and storytelling.  I became a fan of the Frank Capra series of movies about the mentality of helping out the little guy and looking out for your neighbor, which is similar to the pass it forward but its more of a lifestyle of looking out for the other fellow as stated by several of his movie...

O nce upon a time, a hacker named cyber wolf was trying to break into three user accounts. The first account that he attempted to break into had a very simple password, and he was able to gain access fairly quickly. The second account was a little more challenging because it had a number at the end and an exclamation point, but he had success again. The third account proved to be the most challenging and had the wolf huffing and puffing for several days with no luck because the account owner had tied his cell phone as a secondary form of authentication. The reality of our modern environment is that no lone wolf is trying to blow our house down. There are several packs of wolves, sometimes working in tandem trying to make cracks in our security. With the growth of behavioral authentication in recent years, we can unlock our phones with our faces and make purchases with our fingerprints or smart devices as we move into the future of a contactless world. Why do we still, need password...