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Connected
Securing the Internet of Things – IoT A popular question for cybersecurity professionals is what keeps us up at night? In the past, I often have found this to be a scare tactic, but lately I have been very concerned about securing IoT. Why? As we retrieve real time data and count on this data…
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A View From the Road
Bears Indeed! Driving through Lake Tahoe, California, I spotted this View, and had to stop to snap a picture. I am sorry I cannot adequately credit the business; but I so appreciate their whimsy! Whimsy will return one day soon.
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Poet’s Corner
Do You Remember Do you remember the day we met? Everything seemed so ordinary, I could not have imagined what that encounter would mean. It was your earrings which drew me to you. They did not match. I figured it was with intent; But was not sufficiently sophisticated to know that was the look…
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From the Editor
The Earrings I know I have been thinking about how this month we mark the year anniversary, of our lives being impacted by the pandemic. But even though there is a lot to say, I do not want to focus on covid-19 anymore. I know we cannot truly avoid thinking about it, and it…
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Connected
Words not Numbers Elizebeth Smith Friedman, considered the first American female cryptanalyst, did not arrive at this job with a love for numbers, but rather a love for words. Who was Elizebeth Smith Friedman, and how can we learn from her techniques and make them applicable for us in technology today? Elizebeth was born…
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Holiday’s
Happy Valentine’s Day I know the cynical amongst us are convinced that this is a holiday created to promote the greeting cards and chocolate industry; and I do not believe there is anything which I could say that will change your mind. But my memories of Valentine’s Day go back to being in grammar…
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Art
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Bedroom by Vincent Van Gogh The artist has three paintings with the same name, this is the second version, housed at the Chicago Art Institute. I am drawn to the colors in this…
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From the Editor
The Train is in Motion A year ago we were on the way to Florida. We had been trying to time our trip around birthdays. I was upset about the fact that I would be late for Christine’s birthday, but was looking forward to celebrating Joy’s in Maine. Though we were aware of covid in…
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Reflections
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day Holocaust MemorialByOfra Friedland There are various days, around the world, which are set aside to remember the six million Jewish people who were murdered in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as designated by the United Nations is January 27, the day the Soviet Army…
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Action
A Voice for the Moderates “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for sums up the Law and the Prophets.” ~ Matthew 7:12 ~ I am a middle child. I do not think that is why I am a moderate, though I do fall in between two…
