There are many articles online describing SQL Server data compression. In this post I will summarize some of the salient points.
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Year: 2019
Location Services and Your Privacy – Hide Yo Kids Hide Yo Wife
Location services abound in apps everywhere. Your smartphone is constantly tracking your location whether to guage traffic, share with loved ones your whereabouts, or get the weather. However, this can lead to all sorts of abuses which are not immediately obvious to most.
Let’s delve into it and see what’s at stake.
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Data Privacy Day 2019 – Respect Privacy / Safeguard Data / Enable Trust
Yesterday, Monday January 28th, was Data Privacy Day 2019.
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Security Principles – Time Tested and Immutable
Many years ago Microsoft published a list of the “10 immutable laws of security”. The page has since been removed; however, another version popped up with very slight changes.
Read on the see the security principles from decades ago which are still prevelant today.
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The Cyber Tussles Between the Layers of the Internet
The Internet was created in simpler times. The various principles which formed it are under constant challenge. Over time the Internet has gone from a research curiosity to a mainstream utility.
The openness of cyberspace is heavily challenged by various competing interests. Read on about the struggle, various players, and what can be done.
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