IRQ Eschews Social Media

Many IT Professionals deliberately abstain from social media because of the profound risks to data privacy and security. Having intimate knowledge of how platforms harvest, store and monetize user data, IRQ recognizes the inherent risks when you surrender personal information to opaque algorithms and third party data miners.

Unlike non-technical professionals, IT specialists like IRQ understand the technical mechanisms behind tracking cookies, facial recognition, and behavioral profiling — tools that can expose people to identity theft, surveillance and algorithmic manipulation.

For example, a single overshared post can inadvertently reveal network structure or workplace routines that sophisticated attackers can exploit. Consequently, IT professionals like IRQ, often adopt a stance of minimal exposure. We view social media not as a benign communication tool; but, a high risk vector that compromises both personal and organizational security.

Moreover, IT professional need to stay current with rapidly evolving technologies and hold the line against the Gartner Hype Cycle of new (often over promising) tech. By opting out of social media, you’ll reclaim many hours each week to focus on more productive endeavors.

Botton line, many IT professionals like IRQ Solutions LLC reject social media in favor of cultivating more authentic and meaningful relationships both in our personal and professional lives. By rejecting social media, IRQ believes it serves its client better, allowing relationships to be based on mutual respect and shared business goals instead of market jargon and over-promised nonsense.

So if you’d like an old time professional relationship with a straight shooter, Contact US via the link above…

The Cloud is a Single Point of Failure

Sure, the cloud seems like a secure space, but it’s NOT. A “cloud” is just someone else’s server sitting in a datacenter somewhere. If it’s a big datacenter with a lot of high value targets that store high value data, that “cloud” datacenter is going to be a prime target for attacks.

Salesforce customers are the latest people to learn that lesson. That’s why IRQ recommends self hosting everything and using physical off-site backups. The Korean Government just gave us an excellent example of the need for off-site physical media backups of critical data…

Just like A.I, don’t believe the hype about SeaS and cloud services. Self Hosted Open Source Alternatives are often safer and superior.

End of Windows Ten

Windows 10 is End of Life in October 2025. The security implications of this fact mean that YOU must move to a new OS. You can move to Windows 11, if your current computer supports it. Not upgrading is not an option, Windows is a high value target for hackers, so a Windows computer not getting regular security updates is a disaster waiting to happen. (It’s not a matter of if, it is when…)

Worse, IMHO, is the fact that Windows 11 is a spyware system. And that’s before you address the privacy problem named Copilot and the absolute nightmare that is Recall!

With all those problems, IRQ suggests two paths forward for people sick of Microsoft’s ecosystem… Move to MacOS or Linux which are – objectively – more secure than Windows.

Beyond security, MacOS and Linux offer superior long-term stability and performance on modern hardware. For example, Apple Silicon bests Intel/AMD counterparts. Both MacOS and Linux can run an excellent alternative Office 365 Suite called ONLYOFFICE. And if you’re an accountant, you should have switched to a Python/MySQL system from Excel long ago.

So if you’d like to have a discussion about making a switch from Windows to MacOS or Linux, Contact Us.