by Greg Scott | Oct 6, 2020 | Politics and Religion
Flicker – 27th and East Lake Street Destroyed Buildings – Minneapolis On May 29, 2020, during the George Floyd protests and riots in Minneapolis, Dawn Frederick of the Red Sofa Literary Agency noticed looters destroying a gas station outside her office and...
by Greg Scott | Oct 5, 2020 | Phish collection
For more phishing samples, see my phishy email collection. For best results with a password reset phishing scam, select another target than the email admin. Also, it’s “disabled” with a d at the end. And, Italy? Really? What grade would you give...
by Greg Scott | Aug 25, 2020 | Slice of Life
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Warren K. Leffler (digital file: cph ppmsca 03128)https://www.britannica.com/topic/civil-rights#/media/1/119317/123264 Long before the Black Lives Matter movement, Civil rights was the popular phrase in the 1960s. And just like...
by Greg Scott | Aug 19, 2020 | Politics and Religion
Screen shot taken from a Facebook Live video, streamed live by independent media organization, Unicorn Riot. On Saturday, August 16, 2020, hundreds of protesters traveled to Minneapolis police union president, Bob Kroll’s home in suburban Hugo, Minnesota, to...
by Greg Scott | Aug 5, 2020 | Slice of Life
Writing a blog post about social media mobs is bound to make people mad. But we’re tearing ourselves apart and somebody needs to call it out. May as well be me. Let’s start with COVID-19. Forget the epidemiologists who say it started in that meat market in...
by Greg Scott | Aug 4, 2020 | Cybersecurity
Blackbaud calls itself the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good. Here is more about how Blackbaud describes itself. Leading uniquely at the intersection point of technology and social good, we provide cloud software, services, expertise,...
by Greg Scott | Jul 27, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Technology
Your new smart home may need a smarter network In part 1, I suggested a few things to consider when shopping for a thermostat, door lock, baby monitor, kitchen appliance, or other smart home IoT (Internet of Things) device. Here, in part 2, I’ll share some thoughts on...
by Greg Scott | Jul 27, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Technology
Today’s smart home devices are more sophisticated and more dangerous than any consumer device ever invented. Here, in part 1, I’ll show a few things to consider when shopping for a security camera, thermostat, door lock, baby monitor, kitchen appliance, or...
by Greg Scott | May 30, 2020 | Slice of Life
A protestor takes a picture of a demonstration from the roof of the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody Monday, broke out in Minneapolis for a third...
by Greg Scott | May 23, 2020 | Slice of Life, Technology
If I catch COVID-19, somebody needs to contact everyone I’ve contacted over the prior couple weeks so they can take appropriate action. This is called contact tracing, and we have 21st century technology to help. As we emerge from our global pandemic shelters, I...
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