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10 votes
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The employer surveillance state: The more bosses try to keep track of their workers, the more precious time employees waste trying to evade them
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Palm is back (sort of), and it built a tiny smartphone sidekick
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Rogers, Fido and Bell call centre workers penalized for reducing plans, offering credits
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Pinboard on Twitter: Palmer Luckey has made the maximum legal donation this year to Steve King, the nation's most openly white supremacist congressman.
@pinboard: Palmer Luckey has made the maximum legal donation this year to Steve King, the nation's most openly white supremacist congressman.
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PeerTube reaches its first stable 1.0 release
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Mastodon's two year anniversary: A retrospective
16 votes -
‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’
31 votes -
The rise and demise of RSS
11 votes -
Reddit is changing the r/popular algorithm so that more discussion-focused subreddits and posts gain visibility
56 votes -
Alexa, should we trust you?
10 votes -
Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas does parkour
18 votes -
Facebook Says Hackers Stole Detailed Personal Data From 14 Million People
10 votes -
Internet hacking is about to get much worse - We can no longer leave online security to the market
22 votes -
Why are African governments criminalising online speech? Because they fear it.
8 votes -
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
15 votes -
Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World
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Belgium has regional elections on Sunday, voting machines use USB sticks and store votes on a Linux partition which users will be prompted to format when using Windows, deleting all the votes
@rubenvanassche: Belgium has it's regional elections this sunday, the voting machines are using USB sticks and store the votes on a separate Linux partition. But the stick should also be used on windows which wil ask the users to format it and so it will delete all the votes. 😮
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Amazon and the bridge too far
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Apple's new proprietary software locks kill independent repair on new MacBook Pros
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EEVBlog looks at the method used to shred the Banksy Artwork
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Microsoft re-releases Windows 10 October 2018 update with explanation of data loss bug
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Google's beefing up user data privacy (which includes shutting down Google+)
42 votes -
Nearly all new US weapons systems have ‘critical’ cybersecurity problems, auditors say
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Why we’re still not ready for ‘like-war’
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Thirty-five US states tell the FCC to get off its ass and do something about spoofed robocalls
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The Death of Google
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New technology favors tyranny. Yuval Noah Harrari on artificial intelligence, democracy, and the bigger picture
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Microsoft now faces a big Windows 10 quality test after botched update
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Why do you lock your smartphone?
I'm genuinely curious. I'm a late adopter FWIW and am still rocking an older iPhone that doesn't support any face recognition or finger prints. But I don't use a pass code either, and never have,...
I'm genuinely curious. I'm a late adopter FWIW and am still rocking an older iPhone that doesn't support any face recognition or finger prints. But I don't use a pass code either, and never have, and doubt I ever will. I just don't get it... what are folks afraid of happening if they don't lock their phone? I suppose the "nightmare" scenario would be someone steals your phone and then messages your contacts asking for $. Is that it?
I've always practiced greater digital security than physical security (counting the phone unlock as physical) as I think it much more likely that a ne'er-do-well would attack some large company than to single me out in person. I mean if the FBI or some hacker is going through my garbage then I probably have larger problems, right?
For me it's cost/benefit - swiping/fingerprinting/face IDing multiple times a day is not worth the slim chance that my phone is stolen by someone who going to use the info in it for something nefarious. I wouldn't lock my car if I was in/out of 20x a day, I just wouldn't leave anything terribly valuable in it.
Please let me know why locking your phone is/isn't important to you.
EDIT: To be clear, I have one banking app and it requires an additional password to get in. It's an app so there isn't a saved password for it anywhere.
EDIT2: Made this as a comment below, but thought I'd add it up here as well - "I find it strange that people in general seem to be OK with putting up with an inconvenience (even though minor to many) that affects them multiple times a day, but we hold large companies almost wholly unaccountable for major data breaches. "
EDIT3: This just occurred to me. We lock our phones, but not our wallets/purses. The argument that a pass-code is a protection against identity theft rings sort of hollow when we consider we have much of the same info on an ID card that we keep unprotected. Some states will even list the SSN on a driver's license.
EDIT4: I'm convinced everyone thinks their personal lives are terribly interesting to strangers and my suspicion is they're not. Only two real cases of bad things happening when a phone is unlocked that I've counted so far: 1) long distance calls 2) pokemon themed contacts.
EDIT5: That said, sounds like the fingerprint scanner is the way to go for convenient security. I'll be checking that out. Sincere thanks!
EDIT6: Some folks said that edit 4 came off as condescending. Not my intention. I was trying to tie in the idea of "everyone being the main character in their own story." I'm definitely not implying that people should leave their phones unlocked because others wouldn't find their lives uninteresting.
I think many have a personal connection to their devices that I do not feel. Intellectually I find that very interesting as this seems less a monetary issue and more a privacy issue. It'd be as if a stranger picked up a lost diary and started reading. I fear my diary would be more like a ship captain's logbook and wholly uninteresting. If I were to have my phone stolen I'd simply change a couple passwords and buy a new one.
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Google announces "Made by Google" family 2018: Phones (Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL), tablet (Pixel Slate), and virtual assistant (Google Home Hub)
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Facebook Isn’t Sorry — It Just Wants Your Data
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Data for good: Wonderful ways that big data is making the world better
7 votes -
Alphabet to shut Google+ social site after user data exposed
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Create-React-App 2 is live
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The rise of Netflix competitors has pushed consumers back toward piracy
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The US Navy’s terrible accident record is now hidden from public view
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Microsoft shakes up its Surface laptops with more powerful models
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DOJ demands Facebook information from 'anti-administration activists'
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The very first social network
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Panopticlick: How unique is your browser?
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Instagram is testing the ability to share your precise location history with Facebook
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Windows Controlled Folder Access
I recently enabled controlled folder access in Windows 10. It restricts programs from modifying folders in a blacklist. I have all of the music/pictures/videos/documents/desktop folders and...
I recently enabled controlled folder access in Windows 10. It restricts programs from modifying folders in a blacklist.
I have all of the music/pictures/videos/documents/desktop folders and folders containing backups added, is there anything else I should consider adding?
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Did Facebook lLearn anything from the Cambridge Analytica debacle? An even bigger data breach suggests it didn’t.
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Aether: Distributing Social Networks Without Distributed Consensus
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Supply chain security is the whole enchilada, but who’s willing to pay for it?
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Meet the man who test drives sex robots
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I made a post awhile back about asking for inspiration for a new project. I built a thing.
hey all! i made a post awhile back talking about how i was in a tech rut, and tired of creating the same things over and over again, working with the same libraries and the same frameworks. i was...
hey all!
i made a post awhile back talking about how i was in a tech rut, and tired of creating the same things over and over again, working with the same libraries and the same frameworks.
i was bored of it!
so last week i said hell with it and i spent more money than i should've on udemy courses, learned a lot about javascript and the mern stack (mongodb, express.js, react, node.js)
then, after a few nights of staying up way later than i should have (i have presently been awake for 27 hours) i built this thing:
https://dry-castle-80238.herokuapp.com/dashboard
dev-connector.
a small little social media site for the technically-minded.
nothing groundbreaking or super fancy - just a basic social media site with posts, comments, user profiles and all that. but it's the first thing in awhile that i've actually finished and put into production on some capacity (even if it's just heroku)
jump in, leave a few comments, and let me know what you think. :)
passwords are hashed with bcryptjs, but i've been recommending everyone just use fake login info on sign up for safety's sake.
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Weak default passwords for internet-connected devices banned in California from 2020
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This tech would have spotted the secret Chinese chip in seconds
7 votes