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How To 

One Thing To Do Today: Research Social-Engineering

November 21, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments onething, privacy, social-engineering

TL;DR: Read the entire SmartFile article on 23 Social Engineering Attacks, or at the very least scroll to the end for their summary

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Around the Web 

One Thing To Do Today: Watch Terms and Conditions May Apply

November 19, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments infosec, movie, onething, privacy, security

It’s been a long week. Maybe let’s just watch a movie. Try Terms and Conditions May Apply. Reviews on Rotten

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How To 

One Thing To Do Today: The robots are listening and they understand what they hear.

November 18, 2016December 6, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments AI, cloud, language processing, onething, privacy

TL;DR: Don’t invite AI enabled cloud listening devices or apps into your home.  Spoken natural language processing still takes a

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How To 

One Thing To Do Today: Delete your account.

November 17, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 1 Comment onething, passwords, privacy

TL;DR. Delete the accounts you don’t use. Maybe even some that you do. For your own safety, start paying for

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A drawing of an old key hanging from a stylized hook.
How To 

One Thing To Do Today: What passwords do you have anyway?

November 16, 2016June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments onething, passwords, security

TL;DR: Now actually start moving passwords into the software. Updating the weak, deleting accounts that are unnecessary. Take the time

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How To 

One Thing To Do Today – Get that password manager already

November 15, 2016May 30, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments onething, passwords, security

UPDATE: Wirecutter Review of Password Managers April 2017 Logins sit as the front door to online systems.  True, most systems have

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How To 

One Thing To Do Today: Embrace the Postcard Nature of Email

November 14, 2016November 23, 2016 carlyn 2 Comments email, infosec, onething, security

TL;DR:  Absolutely turn on two factor authentication, but that doesn’t fix an inherently broken protocol.  Do you remember paper interoffice

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How To 

One Thing To Do Today: Plan a way to give to the cause regularly

November 13, 2016January 15, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments basics, onething, security, TuesdaySweep

I am very angry.  This new but old reality has seeped into my skin, tricking my mind to look for

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How To 

One Thing To Do Today: Put security into your news rotation

November 12, 2016January 15, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments basics, bookmarks, onething, security, TuesdaySweep, twitter

While my career started in web development “back in the day,” I am more into the taking e-waste apart with no

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How To 

One thing to do today: Cover your camera with something pretty

November 11, 2016November 21, 2016 carlyn 0 Comments basics, communication, onething, opensource, opensourcehardware, OSH

The people who create computer hardware can build respect into the metal, or they can not. Or they can try, and

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Welcome to CRASH Space. We are a collection of hackers, programmers, builders, makers, artists and people who generally like to break things and see what new things we can build with the pieces. CRASH Space is a 501(c)3 non-profit.

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