Brooklin Gore

I’ve been building and managing networks and large distributed computing systems for over 25 years. Working in academia, enterprise and government I’m experienced in evolutionary programming, ITIL, enterprise architecture, project and personnel managment.

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Five Cybersecurity Must-dos

I write this for my family and friends out of concern for their digital security…

The level of cybersecurity threats (hacks, phish, worms, and more) to business, academia, government is beyond belief. The Sony Hack has taken these threats to an entirely new and unacceptable level. Your personal systems are targets too! Imagine if we had people checking the doors of our homes and offices - and if not locked - walking right in and doing whatever they please. We would demand that our local, state and federal protection agencies start doing their job! We’d buy locks and be prudent about keeping the place secure. We’d be able to handle the times when strangers did get in.

Today, in cyberspace, we have this very situation. Bad guys are running all over our online properties and doing, for the most part, whatever they want. For reasons too complicated for this piece to cover, local, state and...

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My approach to blogging

Personally, I think the jury’s still out on the impact of blogs on journalism. Most blogs are opinion and not fact and I think a lot of folks either get confused or don’t care to differentiate. I’ll try to be clear when I’m writing things that are just thoughts, opinion, rumination or fantasy, vs. things that I actually have some specific experience or knowledge with. Keep me honest and let me know if you can’t tell from which place I’m writing an article and I’ll clarify.

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Amazing mobile speaker solution

For Christmas, my wife found this wireless speaker for any mobile phone that really works. Everybody wanted one because it has great, yet portable sound for under $20! It takes 3 AA batteries and has a blue LED power button. To operate, align the phone and speaker’s edges with the phone’s speaker on the same end as the LED power button - volume is adjusted on the phone. I found a neat trick to control the tone by sliding the phone a little off the edge for more base and back from the edge for more treble. Find them at
Spencer’s,
ZAGG, and other places.
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