by Greg Scott | Jun 18, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Technology
My history with building websites and book marketing is like a random walk wearing a blindfold. Try something, do it wrong, fix it, move on to the next mistake. And that’s why I originally built this website with HTTP instead of HTTPS. A few people challenged me...
by Greg Scott | Jun 16, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Amazing. The Target outage started mid morning on Saturday, June 15, 2019 when every POS system across the United States went down. The system came back online a few hours later. That part isn’t amazing. Stuff happens. What’s amazing is the reaction and...
by Greg Scott | May 26, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life, Technology
Image from a 2010 CNN story about the FBI demanding Wikipedia remove the FBI logo from a Wikipedia article. In my new book, Virus Bomb, Jerry Barkley doesn’t trust the FBI because his past experiences with the FBI have been less than satisfactory. Some people...
by Greg Scott | Apr 26, 2019 | Slice of Life
One of the things that makes America great is the opportunity for anyone to bring themselves up by their bootstraps. The stories are everywhere. Most start with a dedicated teacher. Some have a few others who help along the way. I want to share this story from my...
by Greg Scott | Apr 14, 2019 | Slice of Life
As part of my book marketing back in April, 2016, I answered a reporter query about whether it made sense for states to put together commissions to look into cybersecurity. The reporter quoted me out of context. This is what I said: “I’ve seen many of the pieces...
by Greg Scott | Apr 10, 2019 | Slice of Life, Technology
All my life, I’ve been the guy who comes up with ideas people ridicule, ignore, and marginalize. In my life, RIMing is so common, it should be a verb. Back in 2005, I pitched telecommuting to the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce after listening to a presenter talk...
by Greg Scott | Mar 30, 2019 | Slice of Life, Technology
I keep trying to figure out why so many find it so difficult to communicate with tech people. My artistic friends tell me it’s because we have our own private language. If we would stop trying to impress people with our technology words and just dumb it down for...
by Greg Scott | Feb 17, 2019 | Slice of Life
I don’t need to search very hard to find corruption in the great state of Illinois. Four recent governors went to prison, Illinois is the third most corrupt state in the United States, and Chicago is the most corrupt big city. I live in Minnesota...
by Greg Scott | Feb 9, 2019 | Technology
Temporary setup for livestream testing on top of Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN. the day before Holes 4 Heroes 2019, the coolest event in North America. That’s a portable microwave tower to the internet next to the tent, courtesy Nextera Telecom. By early 2021,...
by Greg Scott | Jan 29, 2019 | Memoir
I was eleven years old when I got my first newspaper route. That experience taught me lessons I’ll carry to my grave. The minimum age for paperboys was twelve, but I figured I could say I was twelve because the Arizona Republic wanted paperboys, I wanted to...
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