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Is the Cloud ready for mission critical apps? | The Next Web
No it isn’t. I’ve consulted for companies that try to rely on third parties, and their false promises of redundancy and reliability bite them every time. Even those reliant on Amazon EC2 now simply accept that they must pay double or even triple the monthly rate to run copies of their virtual machines in 3 […]
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Smart Scopes to anonymize images before landing in the user’s Dash (privacy oriented) | Iloveubuntu: Ubuntu blog
As seen in the demo URL, the Canonical severs are anonymizing directly the URL with the probable behavior: typing a word in the Dash, pushes the word against (along with the locally-installed scopes) the Canonical servers, the Canonical servers decide the best results, the results are then anonymized and finally landed in the Dash. This […]
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Al Franken questions privacy of iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner | CNET News
“Passwords are secret and dynamic; fingerprints are public and permanent,” Franken wrote. “If you don’t tell anyone your password, no one will know what it is. If someone hacks your password, you can change it — as many times as you want. You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you […]
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Introduction to the MeshNet
https://projectmeshnet.org/
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Google Chrome is Spyware.
On its first run, Google Chrome silently imports your browser history from Firefox and Internet Explorer. This combined with its incessant prompting to sign into your Google Account guarantees quite a bit of unauthorized data collection on their part, considering this history data will then be synchronized, unencrypted, with them. It is the only piece […]
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Great New Features in GNOME 3.8
I’m quite enjoying GNOME 3.8 so far. Despite my initial objections to the GNOME 3 environment (Linus Torvalds had the same objections), I’ve found that much of the UI decision making involved in the desktop environment has been more than sensible, and lent a natural feel to it (Linus feels the same way!). The latest […]
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Think Your Office Is Soulless? Check Out This Amazon Fulfillment Center | Co.Design
“When you buy something from an independent retailer, you might pay more than Amazon, but that extra bit is an investment,” Roberts explains. “When you pay it, you’re investing in the quality of not only your own life but the life of the community around you.” I don’t buy things from Amazon because shopping requires […]
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Björk cancels Kickstarter, blames complexity of Android and Windows 8 | The Verge
Kickstarter backers in line for an Android or touchscreen Windows 8 port of Björk’s app/album Biophilia are going to be be disappointed: the project has been put on hold indefinitely, reports Pitchfork. In a letter to the project’s contributors, the Biophilia team explains that “the costs were too gigantic and we were too optimistic,” deciding […]
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US Surveillance Law May Poorly Protect New Text Message Services | ACLU
People are finally beginning to understand the issues I’ve been tightening my tinfoil hat over for years now. Refreshing. Where we go from here, is a choice I leave to you. Google’s customers should be free to vote with their feet (or their data), and to use services that offer them the greatest degree of […]
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Circumventing Windows RT’s Code Integrity Mechanism | On the Surface of Security
It’s taken longer than expected but it has finally happened: unsigned desktop applications run on Windows RT. Ironically, a vulnerability in the Windows kernel that has existed for some time and got ported to ARM just like the rest of Windows made this possible. MSFT’s artificial incompatibility does not work because Windows RT is not […]