FTFA: issues a reply to the sender that the person is out of the office and that the email will be deleted, while also offering the contact information of another employee for pressing matters.

and

the program — which is optional — has gone down well with the company’s German employees

Seriously, the idea is that you get to actually take a vacation and let someone else handle the load while you're away. That way, you're not coming back to work with twice the workload as when you left. For many companies, if you take a vacation, no one covers you. The work just piles up. It makes it hard to relax knowing that you've got a mountain of work to return to. No one is taking away "Out of Office" messages or breaking them for people who want to use them.

I've seen several comments here saying "Well, I'm just CC'ing people who need to be kept in the loop!" Ok, I get that. If it's that important, why don't you just wait until they get back and give them a short briefing? If it's not that important, why did you bother sending it in the first place?

  I, for one, applaud the effort to push back against the anti-vacation, anti-personal time culture.

That's been my exact experience. IPv6 is supposed to be dead simple (compared to IPv4) for home users. I am definitely not a home user and I still can't get it working with my ISP.

"Metadata" is a media buzzword designed to make you feel good about having your data monitored. They're still monitoring your conversations. Stop buying into their talking points. The headers of your e-mail are as much your data as the body of the e-mail.

Since when does the FCC have the power to "preempt" laws?

Which is why "split-tunnel pretty much kills the whole point of using a VPN".

Sorry, I thought we were talking about corporate networks and didn't think it was necessary to describe all the different ways in which a VPN might be used.

Split-tunnel pretty much kills the whole point of using a VPN.

'Rachel From Cardholder Services,' was a large robocall scam the agency took out in 2012.

Are you sure about that? Because I still get calls from Rachel and friends several times per week.

Gotta keep those conviction numbers up to justify your DHS endowments. What matter if you destroy a few lives in the process?

...an unnamed small Nevada hosting provider was the subject of an intense and unannounced BSA audit on Thursday...

Yes, "arrested in Maldives" is one of the two conflicting stories I mentioned. I have also seen stories that said that he was arrested in Guam. The Maldives story seems to be coming from the Russians.

I've seen two different stories. 1) He was arrested in Maldives and taken to Guam, and 2) He was arrested in Guam. In any case, there's obviously enough confusion about the story that we're not getting accurate information. Given that, if he were arrested in Maldives, it's certainly possible that it was with the help of the local police and just not being reported.

His inability to handle the data securely in no way absolves him of responsibility to adhere to HIPAA regulations. "I don't know how" is not a defense and he should be (rightfully) penalized.

Massive privacy breach....e-mailed a report...containing sensitive details...e-mailed...

The problem here isn't that it was sent to the wrong account. It's that it was e-mailed AT ALL.

Stop allowing the perpetrators to hide behind the corporate veil.