SECURITY: Don’t forget the old printer as a “data leak”

Thursday, September 18, 2025

FROM TLDR Information Security 2025-09-10

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USB drives are still a problem – but they’re not your only data exfiltration risk (Sponsor)

While most organizations focus on blocking USB devices, attackers and insiders can just as easily steal data through network shares, cloud storage, or even local folder access. You need visibility and control over ALL storage access points.

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Yeah, but I remember that brokers used to keep a shadow book at home.  Meticulously copying or printing duplicates of “their” Client accounts.  

Now it’s easy to just use your phone to take a picture.  AI or software will even extract the text from the picture so no reentering data drudgery. 

I’ve even seen utilities that will put files into QR codes for backup and recovery.

Never underestimate human inginuity to get what they want. Be it drugs, sex, money, or data.

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TECHNOLOGY: AT&T introduces its variant of the Google Graveyard, the AT&T ashcan

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

https://www.zdnet.com/article/download-your-photos-before-at-t-shuts-down-its-cloud-storage-service-permanently/

Download your photos before AT&T shuts down its cloud storage service permanently

  • Come October, AT&T’s Photo Storage service will stop backing up your files. Here’s how to grab them before they’re gone.

Written by Lance Whitney, Contributor
July 22, 2025 at 8:33 a.m. PT
Reviewed by Elyse Betters Picaro

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Starting Oct. 20, 2025, AT&T Photo Storage will stop backing up your files. At that time, the app will be removed from Apple’s App Store and Google Play. The service itself, however, will still remain available until Feb. 1, 2026, at which point your stored photos will vanish as well.

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Of course, the monthly nut I pat to AT&T will OF COURSE be reduced proportional to the cost of this service.  

Yeah, right.

It’s just a technological form of our old friend, SHRINKFLATION!

Back in the day when I worked for Old Ma Bell, no one would dare harm the Customer.  It was part of the credo, ethic, or morals of the employees.  

Then Judge Green broke up the “monopoly” and the USA went from a stellar phone service to a mixed jumble of offerings.  Bell Labs and Wester Electric were fatal casualties of the distruction.

Were phone calls “cheaper”?  The phones certainly weren’t a durable and the politicians and bureaucrats ruled “rates” at all levels of Gooferment.

Unfortunately, unlike the leadership of IBM who told the Gooferment to go <synonym for the act of procreation> themselves, Ma Bell just rolled over and played dead. 

Roll the clock forward and we have expensive phones and service (such as it is) and the AT&T ASHcan!

Argh!

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FUN:Luddite sent me a Laughing Baby video

Sunday, January 8, 2012

https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=e96c39c9b735ab8c&resid=E96C39C9B735AB8C!119&parid=E96C39C9B735AB8C!110&authkey=!ABlb_nSM43Bpn4Y

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Yeah the whole 5 Gig file in an email. Argh! So, here it is for your enjoyment. Just the link; take the file if you want it. But why? You can just share the link. Think of all those electrons you’re saving.

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