Tweet theft: Sits vac. One CISO reporting to the new US president. Any takers?
All the past week or two's best tech tweets (or thereabouts) stolen to order
This week's Computing Tweet Theft has the best tweets. FACT!
In contrast, as we've seen in the recent past, TrumpCo doesn't necessarily have the best security. So when King Donald decided to fire the White House chief information security office (CISO) this week, it raised more than a few eyebrows.
Trump, of course, is a multi-talented guy, the king of the cybers, but can he persuade someone who knows their port 20 from their port 80 to not only:
- Work for him; and,
- Take a massive pay cut for the privilege?
Taylor Swift isn't so sure.
White House CISO or not, the esteemed new US president has nevertheless helped to improve IT security - in California where they're planning new laws to ring-fence sensitive data from their own government. Smart.
But that's enough from Trumpton. This isn't the six-form debating society.
Ever since the ex-Mozilla chap put the boot in to anti-virus software, it's been open-season on poor* security software vendors and Taylor Swift agrees. In fact, it's pretty universally agreed that much anti-virus is pretty horrible software.
Indeed, anti-virus software in general is especially good at slowing down Outlook, which is normally Microsoft's job, but it increasingly isn't up to the job of protecting ordinary punters' PCs, while crippling their performance.
Imagine, therefore, what it could do installed on your Internet of Things (IoT) household appliances.
We've been quite clear in the past in our opinions of such ghastly tech-trosities as connected fridges. But now it's not just Samsung bidding to show off completely useless IoT fridges, but also Bosch.
Thankfully, the sensible, down-to-Earth folk of Twitter treated Bosch's patronising marketing with the disdain it deserved.
"The fridge as your personal assistant"? One can only imagine (or hope) that even the marketing department of Bosch is struggling to sell the concept.
Anyway, as it's the weekend, it's time to turn attention to hobbies…
As well as dealing with the neighbours, which they know how to do in China.
That's right, devices for banging on the ceiling of your shonky new-build flat to convey the message to the people in the apartment above that their tap-dancing to Kenny Rogers is not welcome.
Better still, as the devices are app-controlled and, therefore, IoT devices made to the lowest possible cost in Shenzhen they could open up all kinds of Mirai-style fun opportunities for hackers…
* rich beyond the dreams of Croesus