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“Standards!!” I shrieked, hands partially extended in front of me, palms up and fingers bent and twisted like a long dead Joshua tree. I was working the tech bench at a SMB near the beginning of my career. An old desktop PC ...
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“So what’s your password?” I casually asked the CEO of a small business I was doing work for. I don’t usually make a habit of asking people for their passwords, least of all members of the highest executive class. In ...
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