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Episode 408 – Filter Your Email But Don’t Completely Ignore Your Spam Folder

A good email system and best practice is to use some kind of email filters. However, you shouldn't completely ignore all the messages filtered. This epsiode talks about a personal experience that happened when I reveiwed my spam folder and discovered something very serious happened to a service I had an account on.

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How Illinois Bet On Video Gambling And Lost

Legalizing video poker and slots was supposed to generate billions of dollars for the state. A decade later, that hasn’t happened. Now, legislators want to double down on gambling.

5 Questions for Alexander L. Fattal, author of ‘Guerrilla Marketing’

In his new book—Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia—Alexander L. Fattal takes a detailed look at the Colombian government’s efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. In doing so, he illuminates a larger phenomenon: the convergence of marketing and militarism in the twenty-first century. A recent New Yorker review called Guerrilla Marketing “A sobering book on how armies burnish their brands. . . a detailed, eye-opening investigation.” We sent Fattal a few questions to learn more about his research for the book, his recent reads, and his motivations to delve into this topic. What’s the best book you’ve read lately? The best, hmm, I’ll pick two Chicago titles. Not because this is the UCP blog, really. W. J. T. Mitchell’s Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present and Susie Linfield’s The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence. Clearly I have a thing for smart, reasonably polemical books about the representation of political conflict. How did you wind up in this academic field, and what do you love about it? I became an anthropologist because I loved fieldwork. It’s trite but true. What I love about academia is the relative autonomy. Right now I’m finishing […]

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Episode 407 – You Have Security Plans, Are You Testing Them? A Success Story For Why You Should

Your security program won't maintain the value and effectiveness unless you test and test regularly. A good test does more that just run through the steps on the paper but creates an exercise that build collaborative creativity and efforts to play out a scenario. This episode talks about an experience I had recently and an feedback that made the testing efforts worth while. 

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Episode 406 – There Is A Human Element To A Security Profession, Don’t Forget That

In IT and security we get wrapped around the technical and process aspects that cuases a fog to blind us from what the data represents. We try to protect and defend but what are we protecting? This episode talks about the human element behind the security profession and brings some context to the true defense goals.

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Taxes, Pot, Minimum Wage: Pritzker Outlines Ambitious First Term Agenda

Poised to become Illinois 43rd governor, Democrat JB Pritzker enters office Monday, striking a conciliatory political tone toward both Democrats in power and Republicans as he prepares to move an ambitious legislative agenda focused on “lifting up work...