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Funny and informative. I can’t wait to drink my way through her suggestions.

Excellent story! I love Fantastical.

Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.

There are a couple of key times to learn about computer security: before being hacked , or after. I’m guessing Sharyl wishes she had chosen the former.

PS - How much do you want to bet that Chinese school children are learning about computer software in (a mandatory) class?

More importantly, it gives David, and the rest of Tumblr’s team, the freedom to continue making the best product they can while offloading a lot of the grunt work to Yahoo’s leadership, staff, and infrastructure.

Heartfelt.

In a weird way, today’s Flickr announcement is the most encouraging sign possible that the Tumblr acquisition will turn out OK.

Bingo

Biggr. A free terabyte of space

Spectaculr. A new, beautiful experience for your photos

And punch two in that one-two set is Flickr’s relaunch of sorts. The new site is beautiful and fairly easy to navigate. This is good. I can’t help but be impressed by these bold moves.

We promise not to screw it up.

And I believe her. I can’t help but be impressed to the one-two punch Mayer delivered today. She’s making bold moves.

Basic computer security should be taught in school. Computers are too large a part of people’s lives for them not to have a basic understanding of how to use them more safely.

This is great! Is it too much to hope that all (or almost all) people will one day have a decent grasp of some if the fundamental concepts of how the natural world works?

Call me skeptical on this one. This is one new technology I’ll let others play with first.

Here’s hoping MM is a level 5 leader. This love doesn’t seem like it, but who knows what’s actually going on inside Yahoo!?

requiring companies to be wiretap-capable is also mandating them to design less secure services

Terrible idea.

It also means that as platforms evolve, the code firms deploy to provide wiretap functionality is bound to have vulnerabilities. This provides hackers with ample incentive to simultaneously compromise an entire user base — and the sweetly ironic prospect of doing so through a law enforcement interface would be irresistible to them.

I’m guessing that those within the FBI with any InfoSec or IA chops are dying right now at the incompetence of this “strategy”.

Malware increasingly is becoming mores sophisticated, and the more advanced attackers are employing techniques to fly under the radar.

Yet the general public seems to be no more aware.

And then, once you dive to the sea floor, grab the scattered computer pieces, and shove them all inside living clams, you’ll be able to rest easy knowing you’re banking smarter and safer.

What a great piece.