Over a million drones have been sold to the hobby market in the U.S. alone. Some have been sold with more nefarious purposes intended. To make matters worse, the FAA expects that number to triple – to over 4 million drones – by 2021. Drones are used by farmers to manage their fields, to inspect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about the problem of fake cell towers in DC. Well, the story has some interesting twists and turns. First, the largest maker of these devices (at least as best we know) is Harris Corp., maker of the Stingray family. Harris has been so closed mouthed about them that they have made […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Delta Airlines Terms of Service “Concern” Users that tag pictures with Delta Skymiles hashtags (#Skymileslife and #Deltamedalionlife) agree to some interesting terms and conditions according to a recently modified Delta Skymiles program terms. First, they give Delta a perpetual license to use the tagged content (photos) and (b) they warrant they are the sole owner […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook is used to riding high. Not so much lately. First they said that Cambridge Analytica inappropriately captured the data of 47 million users after 250,000 or so users completed a survey and they captured the information of all of those people’s friends without their permission. Now they are saying that their arithmetic wasn’t so […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Drupal team has released a patch that they call highly critical that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code on a Drupal web site with no authentication required. All they need to do is know the URL of the web site. Drupal rates the severity of the flaw a 21 on a 1 to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Internet of Things is the newest fad. Today I heard about Internet connected sneakers. Apparently, you can change the design at will. Given that and the lack of any liability of the part of the software developer no matter what happens (when was the last time a software developer was sued for writing a […]
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