On the 25th anniversary of Java, Oracle’s director of developer content released a list of the 25 greatest Java apps ever written. This week they shared the responses it got. “The U.S. National Security Agency was secretly pleased we noticed its Ghidra binary decompilation tool…” The tenor of conversation was both positive and polite. That speaks volumes about the excellent character…
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Do Drones Help Democratize Surveillance?
A University of San Diego (USD) professor has just published The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance. He tells a local newspaper that drones (as well as other aerial technologies like balloons, satellites, and even kites) actually help effect social change. “That was my litmus test,” Choi-Fitzpatrick continues. “Can I, or other people like me, use this technology for good?…
Most Dedicated VPN IP-Addresses Are Not Anonymous
“Many VPN services advertise themselves as ideal tools to offer security, privacy, and anonymity. To ensure the latter, they often have no-logging policies to prevent individual users from being exposed,” writes Ernesto Van der Sar via TorrentFreak. “However, this is not necessarily true for the small group that use dedicated or static IP-addresses.” From the report: Today, most of the top…
Samsung Blu-ray Players Reportedly Bricked By XML Parsing Error
Hammeh writes: Since the middle of last month, thousands of Samsung customers found their older internet-connected Blu-ray players had stopped working. In the days that followed, complaints about devices caught in an endless startup boot loop began to appear on various internet discussion boards, and videos documenting the device failure appeared on YouTube. To fix the issue, Samsung eventually advised customers…
Google Faces Lawsuit Over Tracking In Apps Even When Users Opted Out
Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action status alleged on Tuesday. Reuters reports: The new complaint in a U.S. district court in San Jose accuses Google of violating federal wiretap law and California privacy law by logging what…
How Ken’s using Guided Projects to continue building in-demand career skills
Meet Ken, a workforce management specialist and instructor who’s learning on Coursera while living in Ireland. In a recent interview, he spoke with us about how he’s using Guided Projects—Coursera’s new short, hands-on learning experiences—to continue building relevant career skills. Ken, thank you for taking the chance to talk with us! Can you start by […]
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Quantum Security Goes Live With Samsung Galaxy
Samsung and South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom have debuted the Galaxy A Quantum 5G smartphone, sporting a quantum random number generation (RNG) chipset. It’s the first commercialization of quantum technology for mobile phones, and it will serve as a significant bellwether for full quantum encryption’s chances of going mainstream. Threatpost reports: Quantum encryption in general has been touted as being…
Washington Restaurants Will Need To Track Diners’ Info As Part of Reopening Requirements
If you choose to go out to eat at a restaurant in Washington, you will have to give the restaurant your name, phone number and email to facilitate contact tracing. This is just one of the guidelines that restaurants must adopt before resuming dine-in services during “phase two” of Washington’s reopening plan. Eater Seattle reports: As announced previously, dining rooms can…
Malwarebytes Releases New VPN Service For Windows
The popular anti-malware software MalwareBytes is releasing a new Windows VPN service called Malwarebytes Privacy. The company says it plans on offering Mac, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS versions in the future. Bleeping Computer reports: During our tests yesterday, you could select from 10 states in the USA and 30 countries around the world. […] Malwarebytes told BleepingComputer that this is not…
As School Moves Online, Many Students Stay Logged Out
Teachers at some schools across the country report that fewer than half of their students are participating in online learning. From a report: Chronic absenteeism is a problem in American education during the best of times, but now, with the vast majority of the nation’s school buildings closed and lessons being conducted remotely, more students than ever are missing class –…