WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
In the wake of years of huge data breaches, there is increasing talk of replacing vulnerable and increasingly ineffective Social Security numbers as a means of identification both online and off. It’s a hard problem, and the underlying questions that a Committee of the National Research Council asked 15 years ago about national identity systems are questions that we should still all be asking today.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
2016 is on track to set the record for the greatest number of data breaches in history. One very concerning component of those data breaches is medical breaches, not just because of the sensitivity of medical data but because those hacks are not just aimed at data – they are hitting medical equipment as well.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
We’ve heard a lot about data breaches lately in which hackers have broken into the computer systems of places like Home Depot and Target and stolen all sorts of customer information. Those breaches make for big headlines but how large a problem are data breaches really? Very large, as it turns out: a report on breaches in the first half of 2014 makes for very disturbing reading.
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Have you or someone you know gotten a replacement credit card way before your current one was supposed to run out? Wonder why? Here are a couple of possible reasons.