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The BBC has said that Samsung has issued a warning to it customers over their smart TVs, saying that people shouldn't talk about personal information in front them. When using the voice activation feature of the smart TV, it will listen to everything you say and may share that will Samsung and third parties.

This only came to light when The DailyBeast posted a new story pointing out part of the privacy policy...

"Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party"

Corynne McSherry, an IP lawyer for EFF, told The DailyBeast that the "third party" was probably the company providing speech-to-text conversion for Samsung. They also said: "If I were the customer, I might like to know who that third party was, and I’d definitely like to know whether my words were being transmitted in a secure form."

I have just created a new blog for myself, one for my ramblings and thoughts.
It's brand new, and still being looked at for theme and layout settings.

Having said that, my first actual post is about my SCOM Maintenance Mode tool:
http://myrandomthoughts.co.uk/2014/12/scom-maintenance-mode

Enjoy

I have written a tool for my work (very large European IT company), and they have allowed me to release it into the wild - not the source, just the tool.

It connects to a SCOM 2007 or 2012 Management server and will allow you to select as many servers as you need to put into maintenance mode. It gives options for length of time, reason for maintenance, etc.

One feature that other tools don't have, is that you can save a list of servers and reason options into a text file, then run the tool with that file. This allows you to put large numbers of servers into maintenance quickly and with less errors.

This is ideal for people that manually patch windows servers, and don't want SCOM to alert that a server has been rebooted for example.

We using it internally in the UK with 1000's servers being patched every weekend (phased patching rollout)

If you want a copy, or more information, just give me a shout.