Can biometric systems foil terrorists? Probably not–but try telling that to Wall Street.
That’s an interesting statistic. If a terrorist is one person in a million, and the software is incorrect once every 10,000 faces it scans, then 1000 people will be identified inaccurately for every one terrorist who is caught. And once you’ve been inaccurately identified, how do you go about proving it isn’t you? Think about that!
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Given the wide range of personal information exposed, the possibility of attackers obtaining plaintext passwords is only one of the major concerns stemming from the breach. Yahoo users should be wary of communications that may use some of the compromised data to trick them into clicking on links, divulging information, or taking other actions. Glad…
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I’m looking forward to this, for this very reason: So, if you like a tweet you just want to review later, it can show up in someone else’s timeline that you’ve liked it. For tweets you just want to come back to later but don’t necessarily agree with or endorse, that’s problematic. The “like” functionality…
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So the problem is laid out pretty well in this statement: In a press release about the report, Monu Kalsi, vice-president of Shred-it, is quoted as saying, “The study’s findings clearly show that seemingly small habits [of employees] can pose great security risk and add up to large financial, reputational and legal risks.” And the…
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