tedlistens writes: One of the most common techniques people think can help hide their activity is the use of an “incognito” mode in a browser,” writes Michael Grothaus at Fast Company. But “despite what most people assume, incognito modes are primarily built to block traces of your online activity being left on your computer — not the web. Just because you…
Tag: Internet
Following the Notre Dame fire, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame tops best-seller lists in France
Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/20/18507707/notre-dame-fire-hunchback-victor-hugo-best-seller…
Should Vendors Start Adding Physical On/Off Switches To Devices That Can Spy On Us?
Larry Sanger, American internet project developer and co-founder of Wikipedia, argues in a blog post that vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to webcams, smartphone cameras/mics, and other devices that spy on us. He writes: Have you ever noticed that your webcam doesn’t have an “off” switch? I looked on Amazon, and I couldn’t find any webcams for sale that…
Unexpected Protection Added To Microsoft Edge Subverts IE Security
Dan Goodin writes via Ars Technica: A researcher has uncovered strange and unexpected behavior in Windows 10 that allows remote attackers to steal data stored on hard drives when a user opens a malicious file downloaded with the Edge browser. The threat partially surfaced last week when a different researcher, John Page, reported what he called a flaw in Internet Explorer….
Fandom’s new “ship dynamics” meme is all about our fave romantic tropes
Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/19/18507130/ship-dynamics-meme-twitter-art-fandom-shipping…
Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber are CGI animals in this generation’s “We Are the World”
Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/19/18507660/lil-dicky-earth-music-video-ariana-grande-leo-dicaprio…
Millions of Rehab Records Exposed on Unsecured Database
Records for potentially tens of thousands of patients seeking treatment at several addiction rehabilitation centers were exposed in an unsecured online database, an independent researcher revealed Friday. From a report: The 4.91 million documents included patients’ names, as well as details of the treatments they received, according to Justin Paine, the researcher. Each patient had multiple records in the database, and…
The Mueller report redactions, explained in 4 charts
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/19/18485535/mueller-report-redactions-data-chart…
‘We Will Win:’ OpenAI’s ‘Dota 2’ Team Is Crushing Humans Online, But Players Are Not Giving Up
‘The bots are locked. They are not learning, but we humans are. We will win.’Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xzaeg/we-will-win-openais-dota-2-team-is-crushing-humans-online-but-players-are-not-giving-up…
The Mueller report, explained
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/18/18485602/mueller-report-findings-obstruction-russia-collusion…