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Marcel Brown: October 16th, 1959. Control Data Corporation releases their CDC 1604 computer, the world's fastest computer at the time, and the first commercially successful fully-transistorized computer. The 1604 was CDC's first computer, primarily designed by engineer Seymour Cray.
Mark Miller: All the "recommendations" are saying use strong passwords, train your people, update your software, yadda, yadda, yadda, same ol', same ol'. That's not working- it never has. I'm not arguing against good practices like this, but when the shit hits the fan, what you REALLY want is a good backup.
Hillary Coover: The technology ingrained in our smartphones and computers designed for displaying advertisements, inadvertently serves as a conduit for surveillance. A recent report from the US intelligence community emphasized that consumer technologies expose sensitive information about everyone, often without their awareness or ability to prevent it.
Edwin Kwan: The Attorney General said that recent high-profile data breaches have demonstrated that disclosure of personal information has the potential to result in serious harm to individuals, which is why they are establishing the scheme so that there are clear, consistent requirements to notify individuals of data breaches of Queensland government agencies.โ
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By Contributors from Around the WorldFree, ungated access to all 250+ episodes of โItโs 5:05!โ on your favorite podcast platforms: https://bit.ly/505-updates. Youโre welcome to ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ if your followers will find this of value.
The stories weโre covering today.
Marcel Brown: October 16th, 1959. Control Data Corporation releases their CDC 1604 computer, the world's fastest computer at the time, and the first commercially successful fully-transistorized computer. The 1604 was CDC's first computer, primarily designed by engineer Seymour Cray.
Mark Miller: All the "recommendations" are saying use strong passwords, train your people, update your software, yadda, yadda, yadda, same ol', same ol'. That's not working- it never has. I'm not arguing against good practices like this, but when the shit hits the fan, what you REALLY want is a good backup.
Hillary Coover: The technology ingrained in our smartphones and computers designed for displaying advertisements, inadvertently serves as a conduit for surveillance. A recent report from the US intelligence community emphasized that consumer technologies expose sensitive information about everyone, often without their awareness or ability to prevent it.
Edwin Kwan: The Attorney General said that recent high-profile data breaches have demonstrated that disclosure of personal information has the potential to result in serious harm to individuals, which is why they are establishing the scheme so that there are clear, consistent requirements to notify individuals of data breaches of Queensland government agencies.โ