“In March 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois published a report on the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) stop and frisk practices.”
“Wireshark 3.0.0 was released today, replacing the no longer maintained WinPcap packet capture library with the Npcap packet sniffing and sending library for Windows, created by Gordon Lyon the founder of the Nmap project.”
“Here’s another one in the “be careful what you wish for” category.”
“When Facebook users learned last March that the social media giant had given their sensitive information to political-data firm Cambridge Analytica, Mozilla (parent company of the security-focused browser Firefox) reacted fast: Within eight hours, the product team had built a browser extension calle”
“Social media-enabled cybercrimes are generating at least $3.25 billion in global revenue annually according to a new report.”
“For a lot of people, blockchain means Bitcoin, and Bitcoin is part of blockchain. In reality, however, Bitcoin is a single financial product developed on top of the blockchain technology.”
“For the digital era, the cloud has proved to be a huge blessing. It enables storing large amounts of information — photos, videos, music, messages, etc. with a limited budget. With the dawn of the Internet, backing up data became much easier by storing it on the server rather than a hard drive.”
“If it was up to me I would never leave the command line. I use still use lynx (a command line browser), dict (a command line dictionary), and bc (a command line calculator) although with decreasing regularity. So why not use the command line to generate random passwords?”
We all understand the risk of someone taking over our computers or phones for nefarious purposes. But remote access to printers and fax machines was something most people took a little less seriously. After all, you might get some obscene printouts or someone wasting some paper, but in general, those are not big deals. Some researchers however have lately been pondering what might happen should someone break into your 3D printer. Of course, you could bring a printer down to deny service, or cause things to malfunction — maybe even in ways that could be dangerous if the printer didn’t …read more
via 3D Printing, Cybersecurity, and Audio Fingerprinting — Hackaday
Google’s multibillion-dollar business was built by collecting all the information available to its users. Selfish Ledger is a video produced by Google that offers a stunningly ambitious and unsettling perception of how some people at the company envision to use that information in the future.
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