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Stop calling it ‘the cloud’, start selling t-shirts…

A couple of years ago, I said something to the press that became a minor meme.

My suggestion was that people should “stop calling it ‘the cloud'” and start referring to it as “somebody else’s computer” instead.

After all, as soon as you start using language like that, your brain makes an important shift when it comes to thinking about privacy and security considerations.

Security Memetics refined things further, suggesting “There is no cloud, just other people’s computers”.

Lo-and-behold today you can purchase any number of t-shirts and stickers bearing the message, many using an image designed by Chris Watterston.

Don’t believe me? Check out “The many faces of There is no cloud“.

I wish I had been so entrepreneurial. I haven’t made a single cent out of it!

Graham Cluley

Ad board to Comcast: Stop claiming you have the “fastest Internet”

(credit: Comcast)

Comcast should discontinue its claim that Xfinity service “delivers the fastest Internet in America,” the National Advertising Division (NAD) recommended today. Comcast should also discontinue certain ads where it claims to have the “fastest in-home Wi-Fi,” the group said.

For its fastest Internet claim, Comcast relied on crowdsourced data from the Ookla Speedtest application. An “award” provided by Ookla to Comcast relied only on the top 10 percent of each ISP’s download results.

“Although Xfinity offers a variety of speeds at a range of prices and tiers, Comcast’s advertising does not limit its claims to a particular tier,” the NAD’s announcement said. “NAD determined that the claims at issue in both print and broadcast advertising reasonably conveyed a message of overall superiority—that regardless of which speed tier purchased by a consumer, in a head-to-head comparison, Xfinity would deliver faster speeds.”

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Technology Lab – Ars Technica

Android Nougat will stop password-reset ransomware – ZDNet


ZDNet

Android Nougat will stop password-reset ransomware
ZDNet
Instead of encrypting files like traditional ransomware, Android ransomware typically resets a user's lock-screen password, preventing the user from getting access to their own phone or tablet until they pay for the password's release. Symantec's
Android 7.0 Nougat will stop ransomware resetting passwordsInquirer

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