I started using Siber System’s RoboForm Password Manager in 2007 after a colleague recommended it. I tried their free version briefly and then happily shelled out $20 for a license. Since then, I’ve had different passwords on sites and have increasingly made them more complex over the years. When I decided to leave RoboForm, mostly due to…
With the birth of our son a year and a half ago, my wife and I have started to take a look at “housekeeping” tasks that we didn’t really care about in the past. No, not cleaning floors or dusting lamps, but things like putting a Last Will and Testament in place and executing an Advance…
Half of American adults had their personal information exposed to hackers last year alone. In a recent attack at the federal Office of Personnel Management, hackers stole the most sensitive personal data for 21.5 million people. The New York Times recently created a microsite that allows you to answer a few questions to learn which parts of your…
We regularly read about companies experiencing security breaches, and yet we continue to give an insane amount of data (and level of detail within that data) to companies without giving much thought to how they’re using it, how they’ll protect it, or whether we should perhaps limit their ability to store it. Sometimes, as I’ve…
As a Solution Architect who has on more than one occasional suffered through the pain of working with a company’s Legal department to draft legal disclaimers for use on the web, I’m amazed (and frustrated) by organizations who take the time to post but then ignore their own Terms & Conditions or Privacy Policy. Not…