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Canada’s anti-spam legislation – What is the regulator thinking?!

With only five weeks left before Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation's (CASL) main requirements come into force, one of CASL’s regulators, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), has released a series of much anticipated “FAQs” .

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Take testing activities up a level

In a 2009 blog post, Dr. James Whittaker suggested all managers out there need to ask themselves what they’ve done lately to make their testers (e.g., software engineers, system analysts and anyone else who may be involved in testing activities) more creative.

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Are all those log-in passwords worth your time?

I'm sure this news will come as a relief to many computer and Internet users out there: a recent study by a researcher at Microsoft has found that many IT security measures—those things we love to hate like having to change passwords every three months or having individual passwords for a dozen different work accounts—simply don't provide good value for the time and effort they involve, not to mention the bad habits they often cause!

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