“This might sound corny. But as more of our digital spaces become stuffed with news — and, perhaps more alarmingly, suffused with an anxiety to always put forward your best self — there seems to be a growing appetite for honest, unself-conscious personal sharing online. That is helping to fuel not only Instagram Stories but…
“Naked Security reports that a new survey shows users still prefer passwords over other authentication methods such as biometrics. The survey revealed that 58% of people prefer to use passwords for accessing online services. Fingerprints were the most popular biometric method at 10% and only 9% of those survey thought that collecting biometric data was…
“In a cautionary tale to those who favor government-mandated backdoors to security systems, Microsoft accidentally leaked the key protecting its UEFI Secure boot feature.” This keeps happening, when will people learn that any backdoor is a step in the wrong direction when it comes to security? https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/microsoft_accid.html
When visiting Australia and hitting a coffee location like the hotel lobby,you may be presented with a menu like the one below: Now, if you’re like me, you may be wondering, how do I just get a cup of coffee? Well, that would be a Long Black. Although I do have to say Aussies do…
This is like Cold War stuff. When do we reach mutually assured destruction? For the record, I use an ad blocker. Not because I don’t appreciate that many of the tools and sites I enjoy need to make money somehow, but because in the process of doing so, too many are making use of insecure…
In other words, VW created a backdoor, and assumed that it would remain hidden. But it did not. Backdoors are bad, and anyone who thinks they should be required to allow law enforcement access should be forced to take personal responsibility when something like this happens. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160812/10515435227/volkswagen-created-backdoor-to-basically-all-cars-now-hackers-can-open-all-them.shtml