by Steve Burgess | Jun 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
– Copyright Steve Burgess 2024 Your phone is suddenly losing text, videos, photos. What’s happening? Are they gone forever? Have I been hacked? How do I avoid this in the future? What’s happening? Of course, it’s hard to tell without some history of the phone’s...
by Steve Burgess | Feb 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty. It was almost closing time on Friday and my thoughts were turning to Barbequeing some of that mouth-watering Santa Maria tri-tip while my nose was turned to the scent of...
by Steve Burgess | Apr 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Email as a signed contract vs. fraudulent emails We all send and receive email, but did you know that what you say in an email can be interpreted as a legal contract? And that sometimes, emails are fraudulent? Both are true. The Statute of Frauds Although email didn’t...
by Steve Burgess | Jul 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
El Salvador Adopts BitCoin copyright Steve Burgess, 2021 El Salvador just passed a law to make BitCoin (BTC) legal tender and is the first country to do so. It did something similar back in 2001, when it made the US Dollar the official currency, replacing the...
by Steve Burgess | Jul 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
BitCoin. Everybody wants some. But what’s the best way to keep it safe once you’ve got it? And how to get it? First things first – you get BitCoin (and Etherium, and DogeCoin) from a cryptocurrency exchange, like you would from a “regular” currency exchange to turn...
by Steve Burgess | May 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
California defines a cyberbully as anyone who sends any online communication to deliberately frighten, embarrass, harass, or otherwise target another. The Cyberbullying Research Center defines it as “willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers,...