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didn't they try this couple of years back and it resulted in windows 8 heee...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Among the 30 million users impacted, 14 million had their names, contact details and sensitive information such as their gender, relationship status and recent location check-ins exposed. The hackers might end up out of work if Facebook keeps just releasing the data like this.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: sensitive information such as their gender, relationship status
Really? You sex is now "sensitive information"? And are these people aware that marriage and divorce records are public?
Also curious if the alarmists ever heard of a big book with most everyone's phone number and address in it.
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Gender in itself is a "potential identifier" due to the large percentage with that trait. Similar to this would be "age".
However; when combined with other potential identifiers these can narrow results down: How many 45 year old male secretaries named Mike does Company A employee?
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I would say that those are more examples of personal information than sensitive information. Sensitive information would include medical data, criminal history and political affiliations. Sensitive information is a subset of personal information. My email address and postal address are personal but not sensitive. Sensitive information, if revealed, can lead to discrimination and / or prejudice.
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Agile development often runs aground in large-scale software environments and with digital, every software environment is growing in scale.Still, Agile may be doable. But I thought it solved all problems, *and* made coffee for the team?
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Now, the drive to digital
What's with this word "digital?" Have I been living in an analog world and this is some newfangled thing? I guess I should turn my search engine knob to Google and twiddle the dials to search for this "digital" thing so I can learn about it on my vacuum tube analog monitor.
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Study finds people prefer complicated methods because that's what they're used to. "May the odds be ever in your favor"
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The verbal and physical signs of lying are harder to detect than people believe, a study suggests. I had to include this one, as the headline blew my mind
Imagine the grant money...
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I am not worried about liars, I do think they are not that difficult to spot.
I am worried about people that really think their "lie / alternative reality" is the truth. These are the really dangerous ones.
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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If unimproved humans become redundant is up to how good the improvements are executed; knowing mankind, there will be some 'slight' mistakes. Wouldn't be surprised if they kill themselves
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Okay, so sniffing status for mating/bonding/dominance goes back 400 million years, and programmers are mammals ... even if fully geeked ... and, perhaps, vomeronasally challenged ... that still does not explain Agile: [^]
But, scrum ?
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BillWoodruff wrote: But, scrum ?
I smell a pun.
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Over the past 18 months, Microsoft has been working towards building a digital identity system using blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. With these identities aims to enhance personal privacy, security, and control. Is that where you use the same user id and password on multiple sites?
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Researchers at Indiana University have confirmed that stringent password policies – aside from being really annoying – actually work. OK, password changed to 83tt3rP@ssw0rd. I'm so safe now.
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That's so safe, I'm going to use it.
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We should get everyone to use it. We'll all be so secure!
TTFN - Kent
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If I'm correctly understanding what I read there, the benefit is only in that it's an outlier, and 83tt3rP@ssw0rd is only reused less than p4$$W0rd because most sites will let users get away with reusing something shorter. If these boneheads did manage to convince the web to switch to longer PWs, 83tt3rP@ssw0rd would become equally ubiquitous due to reuse.
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My PW = "Password"... I just need to remember which salt I used
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Cryptocurrency scammers have gotten extra creative and are now hiding mining malware in legitimate updates of Adobe Flash Player. What kind of world are we living in when the hackers don't even bother to install a hacked version of Adobe Flash?
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As if it wasn't hard enough...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Mitchell Baker says firms should hire philosophy and psychology graduates to tackle misinformation I know lots of people in tech, and many of them are human
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Pheromones.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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