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Cars, Security & a Peek into my Life

A QR Code Attack

The Attack

A flyer is posted, it says, “scan this QR code, and a really great thing will happen to you!”

The code is scanned > which tells your phone to open a browser > and go to a URL, Whatever.com > where there is a virus / malware / etc >  ready to be installed onto your phone.

The Defence

In the settings of the scanning app, choose to allow / deny an action, before it executes.

In the above scenario, the URL might have looked off, and you decided not to click it, not to visit the webpage.

A Better Defence

Just don’t scan any, ever.

Stay sharp out there.

 

 

A Brief History of my Days as a Security Guard

When I first moved to Toronto years ago, I used to work as a security guard at different downtown venues.

This is BMO field, where the TFC soccer team plays. Season’s ticket holders enter the stadium at the green *

If you were a 2009 season’s ticket holder,
I probably checked your bag.

And probably commented on its contents.

To the mothers, sorry I had to take away your kid’s food, they made me. Not sorry for all the water bottle caps I unscrewed, that’s a no every time.

One night, across the way at the Ricoh Coliseum, I was on search at the door, for a Slipknot concert, and I’d forgotten my gloves :S

Gwen Stefani smiled at me once, and it’s amazing how pumped people get for Nickelback. Saw Adele before she was Adele, the former head coach of the Raptors gave me a locker room coke, and I once escorted ACDC to their van without realizing it.

When Elton John was here, that was me, in the centre of the arena, sitting on a speaker guarding the sound mixer. David Furnish sat beside me for a bit, smelled nice.  Britney Spears was the only shift I ever requested.

Three days at the Royal Agricultural Fair feels like forever, this job really slowed down time.

And no, I don’t want your guitar pick.

The perks of this job were lost on me, since I rarely listen to music.  Mostly I’d ask to be assigned to the quietest, remote corner, and read.

The pants are over the top eh lol

(top photo – taken during a backstage tour of the Honda Indy)

Medical Offices – Password Protect all Computers

A scenario illustrating why.

Patient is shown to a private room.

They are instructed to change, then left alone to do so.

The desk is bumped, the mouse moves, and the screen comes to life.

It’s displaying the doctor’s daily schedule.

1 – Patient Name – Age – Reason (!) – Note – Other Doctors – Insurance   

There’s 30 listings like this.

2 – the yellow is a name highlighted, which displays the below information:

3 – Patient phone number

Another example screen.

4 – Billing screen

That’s a lot of time alone,
with a lot of personal information

Medical offices – protect your patient’s privacy, and put a password on all computers. Ideally it’s 15 characters strong, uses numbers, characters and letters, and is changed regularly.

(How to edit a sensitive photo)