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		<title>A Free Tool to Comply with the New FCC EAS Password Rule – and More!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Ken Fine [July 2026] The FCC has issued the Public Notice and Order requiring EAS units to be held to a much tighter security standard than in the past (a discussion of the FCC actions is here). Ken Fine has utilized an A.I. structure to provide a simple password generator over which you have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>IT Security for Broadcast Equipment</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirk Harnack]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Kirk Harnack [June 2026] All too often, especially with governmental agencies, you see and hear the policy “One size fits all.” But that is really rarely the case. Broadcasters come from large consolidated companies as well as small-town mom &#38; pop operations. One size does not fit all. Kirk Harnack offers some guidelines and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beware of Killer Thumb Drives</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Barry Mishkind [May 2026] You may never look at a USB thumb drive or cable the same way after reading this. What was just a precaution that seemed like overkill now may be a warning we need to know. See how this all progressed. USB devices are so common that most people plug them [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Y2K – Tempest in a Computer Code</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[[December 2025] A whole generation has grown up that never experienced Y2K, an abbreviation for the Year 2000. We give commands to our computers to do things at a certain time, and track everything from email to transmitter events in accurate time (assuming we set systems for the right time zone). But, even as we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spring Cleaning &#8211; the Broadcast IT Edition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barry Mishkind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 14:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[May 2025] They are not all sitting inside nice racks. Lurking under desks and sales cubicle counters, hiding inside cabinets, or nearly forgotten behind control room furniture are the computers that run broadcast stations. Along with the rest of the station&#8217;s Spring Cleaning efforts, here are some thoughts that might be some good computer maintenance [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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