by wwarren | Nov 23, 2015 | Dell, General, Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
Dell’s stupidity is on display as Dell has inserted a base root certificate that can sign code. The really bad part is dell leaves the keys to this cert exposed in the clear so it is easy to extract the keys from the machine and use them as a man in the middle...
by wwarren | Nov 13, 2015 | Android, Apple, Apple, Hardware, Smartphone
I tried it for 60 days but in the end I had to go back to android. I actually went full bore into it stayed totally inside the Apple ecosystem. It wasn’t pleasant. My belief that IOS is a media consumption system was fully confirmed. Android is the better...
by wwarren | Nov 8, 2015 | General
I have seen this too many times. IT firms come in and fix everything and then want to charge monthly for “maintenance”. Most of the time when I am called in it’s because the IT firm who was charging for said maintenance isn’t fixing anything...
by wwarren | Oct 29, 2015 | Microsoft, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8
If you want to get rid of the windows 10 upgrade nag I found this program called Windows 10 When I Want it. I have run it against every a/v engine i can think of and it has not tripped my own defenses so it is as good as i can test it to be. It DOES remove the wind...
by wwarren | Oct 29, 2015 | Cloud Computing, Internet, Security
I have said many times that our current model of trusting a third party to assert your identity is stupid and prone to abuse. Well the owner of Verisign( Symantec) has been making master certs for powerful domains like google.com and others. This allows them to...
