Category: Security
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Tape It Up, Tony
It looks silly. It looks naff. It looks cheap. But it makes you look. And that is why there are twin stripes of yellow reflecting tape wound round everything in the studio. Every tripod leg, light stand leg, studio stand arm…and as many levers, clamps, and hazards as I can find. I have briefly considered…
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Brick Me Daddy
Eight to the bar. We often hear of people having cameras and electronic equipment stolen while on holidays. Mostly it is overseas, but then overseas is home for lots of crooked people anyway. I do not wish the thieves well, whoever they are. The excuses that are made for them are so much eyewash. But…
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Always Give The Art Director What They Want
But do not expect much in return. I’m sorry to sound cynical, but there it is – the job that is contracted to one person, directed by another, and paid for by a third is a trip that may be somewhat satisfactory, but that feeling must be divided three ways. You may not get much…
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The Disloyal Photographer
Or how to photograph treacherously. We have all been taught that we must be honest and upright in all we do. This lesson has been learned by most people, if you disregard certain types. No names and no pack drill, but you can fill in the form yourself from the news. Occasionally we are presented…
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Klik Tok – The App That Watches You
My new app is amazing. Every time I do something subversive it rings up the authorities. This may not be news to you, but the fact that it is directly linked to the Peruvian Main Water And Drainage Department is somewhat of a surprise. I had no idea they were watching me and, to be…
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And A Good Morning To The Bots
I deal with my email each morning religiously. Actually I pray that the autobots that infest it will have broken a chip overnight and then wound down to a halt. So far my devotions have not resulted in a diminution of this tide of tedium, but I still have faith. At least I can recognise…
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The Perils Of Pauline
I’m thinking about the silent-screen heroine…not our federal politician. And how she used to be left at the end of each episode clinging to something, about to be devoured or crushed. I’m not sure what interval was required to film and distribute the next chapter…I’d like to say a week, but that might be too…
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What Would Happen If…?
a. If you stopped sending your images in to Instagram. The ones you have posted already are lost to you – they will be stored in some form, somewhere, and someone may use them for something. You’ll get nothing for this something. You may say that you will get fame. You could have that with…
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Threat Actor
That’s the phrase that occurs with a recent post from an electronics firm that makes off-computer storage equipment. Apparently some of their older hard drive storage systems that can be connected to the internet for constant addition and retrieval of data have turned up blank for the users – and no wy to recover the…
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Fifteen-Factor Authentication
Now that we are good and paranoid about people who are bad, we are looking for more and more methods of protecting ourselves from identity theft and hacking. The computers and tablets we use want us to implement two-factor identification and authentication for the important links we make to apps and banks. Not a bad…
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