Daily Archives: April 25, 2022
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Removing MFA
ISSUE 19.17 • 2022-04-25 Look for our special issue on Monday, May 2! MICROSOFT 365
By Will Fastie
How many times have articles in this newsletter told you that multifactor authentication (MFA) was a good idea and suggested that you turn it on?
A lot. It’s good advice.
Just the other day, I turned on Microsoft 365 MFA for one of my clients. It’s too embarrassing for me to describe the mistake I made. Suffice it to say that it was an accident, because I didn’t intend to turn it on.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.17.0, 2022-04-25).
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Apple’s M1 processors are shaking up how you compute
SILICON
By Brian Livingston
After defining the smartphone market with its iPhone for years, Apple Inc. has shaken up the tech territory by designing its own M1 silicon to revive the Mac product line.
With the original M1 appearing in MacBook Air shipments as of November 2020, the latest shipment in March 2022 of the so-called M1 Ultra — with performance rivaling that of some longtime powerhouse leaders — has created an entirely new class of personal computers.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.17.0, 2022-04-25).
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Get more OneDrive with these tips
MICROSOFT 365
By Peter Deegan
There are a few tricky ways to beat the 365 plan quota, to get more than one terabyte of OneDrive space for nothing and save local disk space by pushing files to OneDrive.
Most Microsoft 365 plans, including Family, Personal, and most Business plans, include one terabyte of OneDrive storage. That’s 1,000 GB, more than enough for most people. But if you need more, there are cheaper – or even free – options available that are legitimate, inside the bounds of Microsoft’s rules.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.17.0, 2022-04-25).
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Gearing up for cyberwar
ON SECURITY
By Susan Bradley
Once upon a time, I used to publish maps showing the location of each water pump in the city where I live.
Fresno residents rely on the underground water supply and pump much of the drinking water from various wells throughout the city. And then Fresno — like every other city — realized that publishing information about critically important infrastructure items, such as drinking water, probably wasn’t wise. That was especially driven home after 9/11; governments realized that they were handing over helpful data to those who might use it to attack us.
Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.17.0, 2022-04-25).