Nov 8
This Internet Security presentation looks at what you need to protect your computer system and reduce your risk of a computer failure.
Security Breach Mechanisms
Securing Your Computer
I am an online course designer -an excellent online course designer. I sell online Sexual Harassment Prevention training to corporations. I provide a demo course so people can see what they are getting. Sometimes I am contacted by a potential client and asked to view the entire course before purchasing.
So what do I say? No and lose a sale? Or yes and risk having my course ideas stolen by a competitor. These are risks that every designer deals with.
I received a phone call from a company who wanted to view the entire Harassment Prevention for Supervisors course. So of course I set it up and allowed them into the course. After a week, I contacted them to get their response. I was told that they were still reviewing it and discussing it with their President. So I wait, another contact results in the same information.
Several weeks down the road, I contact them again. Now I am told that the company decided to make their own course, and “thank you for your assistance.” I am willing to bet that my “assistance” ended up in their course.
Integrity seems to be in short supply in this world. And I am getting tired of being the recipient of under-handed companies.
Sep 25
Yes, that is where I live –Disturbia.
Or so it seems. What has happened to the country I used to live in? When did polarization occur? When did the entrenched mindset begin and conversation end? When did I become victimized by my opinion?
It is a beautiful California morning in the suburbs, walking my two dogs around the neighborhood, when I run into an older gentleman with his older Labrador retriever. He tells me about his neighbor who rescued a dog from the pound (no — this is not an animal rights article!) and continues to wonder how people can do that to their animals. Then continues to wonder how we can do what we do to homeless people — that the government needs to build shelters or something for them.
Now at this point I am with him all the way… Until he says, “I’ve talked to those people who don’t want to do anything about the homeless — we have to have the government take care of this — and they don’t want the government to do anything. I don’t understand those people — leaving children out in the street like that.”
Uh oh — I think I am one of those people… Not that I want to leave children on the street — but that I don’t want government doing it all or if they do it all, that they do it right. So back to the geriatric guy with the automatic assumptions — I say — trying not to alienate him — “I’ve talked to some of those people and it seems that the issues they have is in the way the funds are handled and the manner in which the homeless will be taken care of, not whether they are taken care of…”
Uh oh — geriatric guy flinches, glares at me and walks off with the Lab. Guess I won’t be exchanging pleasantries with him any time soon…
But more than that — I left that conversation feeling victimized by my opinion. What an awful place to be! You can“t move away from your opinion, you can’t discuss your opinion — you are just stuck with it! I wanted to run back and ask that guy or maybe his dog — why couldn’t we talk about this — why was there such a need to to hold onto assumptions that make you feel right? Or ask him whether I became an awful person when I wasn’t looking? And lastly — was there anything I could do about it — short of agreeing with him?
I went on a nice walk in a nice neighborhood and ended it feeling like I did something wrong. I live in Disturbia.
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