Legal Considerations - Social Media

President of LT Online talks about social media implications on corporations after chairing a round table discussion with the General Counsel of Go Daddy, Delta Air Lines and Walgreens.

Really Bad Picture Needs a Caption

I'm watching baseball playing with images on my PC.

By all rights this photo is bad... beyond "soft".

I'm thinking "Digging For Home"... what caption would you put on it?

Digging For Home

Hackers Could Impersonate You – Here Is Proof

Here is a real-world example of how individuals can call a service provider and pretend they are you in order to gain access to home, accounts and more.

In this case a person called the hosting service for a web application the processed credit card payments and pretended to be the owner. The service accepted the verbal request to change the account credentials so the imposter could access the source code and database.

How does this apply to your life?

• Could I call your bank and pretend I am you?
• How about your home alarm service?

All I would need to know are simple things about you. Your name, date of birth, zip code; things I could find out very easily.

The burden is on the service provider. Do they allow telephonic inquiries about your account? Can I add account users over the phone?

While this event happened to a company – the principal could be applied to any one of us.

Hackers Impersonate Web Billing Firm's Staff To Spill 500,000 Users' Passwords And Credit Cards - Forbes

Anonymous Leaks Data & People Loose Perspective

We need to keep things in perspective here.

Some hacker got through to a US Department of Justice server that did nothing more than collect statistical data on the visitors to the site.

Information like what website referred them, their general geographical location, screen size; things that all websites collect so they can better understand their audience.

But because this was a US Department of Justice server the individuals who decide what the news is thought they would generate a few more readers if they clanged a few diner pots together and tapped into the fears of individuals who don’t understand computers and the Internet.

After all, what kind of damage is 1.7 GB of visitor information to a web site going to really provide someone? The average screen size or type of web browsers they had?

On the pretibial scale of 1 – 10 this information leak is a 1. But it makes for a provocative headline; don’t fall for it.

Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice, leaks 1.7GB of data | ZDNet

Memorial Day 2012; Where Is Your Focus?

For the most part I'm a veteran of a period of our history identified as "The Cold War".

This experience gives me an appreciation for those who went before me and those who followed who gave their life to preserve the freedoms I have.

As we move towards this holiday weekend I would ask everyone to take a few moments and adjust their focus from the holiday aspect to the intent of the day which is to honor the men and women who have died to preserve freedom.

It is nice that communities set-up a statue and put names of these heros on a wall, but how often do we look at the statues and not the names?

Take a moment and adjust your focus. Incorporate a few of the names into your moments of reflection.

Hawk

So I'm at the park yesterday playing with my new camera and took this picture of a hawk circleing really high.

Took this with a 300x zoom, wasn't sure how it would turn out.

Cut it down - I think it would make a nice background for the top banner on a website. If you need something that is wider than this let me know.

IAVA - CNN: Paul Rieckhoff

 

Once again CNN has turned to Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) as expert in the field of military experience.

Here is a quote from the current interview about National Guard soldiers returning and looking for employment:

“Before 9-11 National Guard units almost never deployed, didn’t go to combat, and for the most part you had one weekend a month and two weeks in the year. Now you have National Guard units which have been deployed three times for a year. They’re not weekend warriors, they are full-time warriors now.”

I believe Mr. Rieckhoff needs to look at the number of soldiers who were deployed during the Korean and Viet Nam conflicts and research what happened to the National Guard units in the 1940’s before he sells veterans of his father’s and grandfather’s era.

If you are going to speak with authority on a subject better know that subject. The soldiers who server in the National Guard need assistance in finding employment; this I agree with.

Don’t miss quote history in order to make yourself sound more important.

I have a number of other issues with IAVA, this Rieckhoff fella is number one on the list.