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Protecting your data from hackers and nation-state threats
Our smartphones have become essential devices. We can’t leave it more than 10 feet away without going into some catatonic state. Tech companies know his. Advertisers, hackers, and sinister and oppressive governments know this, too. From our personal data being gathered and sold to data brokers to, in extreme cases, governments and spyware companies snooping…
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Update: New hosting service and life stuff
Hello, visitors! If you have been trying to reach this website since mid/late March 2024 and found the place to be in disarray, then there as a reason for that. Because of increasing costs from a web hosting service I’ve been using since ~2019, I decided to jump ship and move to another hosting service.…
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Download this iOS Update NOW
Imagine being at a bar, and you are fiddling around with your iPhone. But unbeknownst to you, a person is not far away watching you type in that four-digit code to unlock your phone. When you walk out the door to your car and SWIPE. Someone grabs your phone and runs off with it. But…
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Earning the Certified in Cybersecurity certification
Towards the tail-end of studying for the CompTIA A+ certification at the end of 2022, a new certification caught my attention. The International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)2, is an organization that was founded in 1989 that started with a need for training and standardizing computer security. They are mostly known for the CISSP, an…
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Earning the CompTIA A+: What it took
I don’t toot my own horn very often, but I can say I’m proud of what I have accomplished in under a year. One of those was passing both exams to earn the CompTIA A+ certification. I’ll explain in some detail as to why I made a career change from a broadcast meteorologist into the…
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