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Iran – Blocking the Internet (Part 2)
This has many Western nations worried of the implications of having a country that has been tied and accused of having links to many terror organizations that span the globe having the capability and technology to deploy nuclear weapons. The country says it is purely for power generation yet their testing of an intercontinental ballistic [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits you and me? (Part 3)
With common transactional data, 128 bit encryption is standard for it is estimated that it would take a couple of years for a computer that is fast enough to crack it. Take it a notch up, and you get a time frame goes up to a couple of decades or so till technology can get [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits You and Me? (Part 2)
That all happens in a couple of minutes without you ever knowing that there was some very fascinating stuff happening in the background. For credit cards and other major bank transactions, they are now using PCI-DSS; an encryption standard that encrypts the transaction information as it travels thought the network. Anyone who taps into the [...]
Read More..>>Data Encryption – How it Benefits You and Me? (Part 1)
As you surf the web as part of your job or for more trivial pursuits you send information through the internet at breakneck speeds that a web page that is based on a server in California takes only milliseconds to open. You go to the grocery and pick up the monthly goods using your credit [...]
Read More..>>New OS, Love it? Nope!
People used to jump onto new stuff like bees to honey but in today’s recession wrecked world, that may not be the case. With Microsoft announcing the release of their new and hopefully improved operating system, people weren’t actually jumping up and down with joy, but with trepidation that they’d have to shell out a [...]
Read More..>>The Web – When will it End
Never, or till somebody pulls the plug and drives the world into chaos, out of Twitter and their other social affiliations. As of 2007, there was already a record number of 155 billion web sites on record, and the buck didn’t stop there for who knows how many more have been added to this day. [...]
Read More..>>Gadgets for All Weather
Gadgets may be getting smaller and smarter but have you noticed they have also gotten a whole lot tougher. gadgets and gizmos for every environment are now available, enough to withstand the rugged ways we use and take them. From waterproof cameras and electronic goods, manufacturers have finally taken the human factor to heart and [...]
Read More..>>Apple’s iPhone 3GS
The company has managed to garner success with their previous two models but this new installment is not getting too good a reception with minimal improvements and even some newly surfacing over-heating issues that are slowly filtering into the many bulletin and discussion boards that tackles the product. There was an issue with previous models [...]
Read More..>>Twitter More Than Just Social
Twitter is becoming more and more a household name, bringing the death of Michael Jackson out to most and organizing protests in Iran but there is one developing use for the micro-blogging site that is sweeping the business world, customer support. Much like call centers, the micro-blogging site has allowed businesses to communicate with customers [...]
Read More..>>Of Windows and Doors (Back-doors that is) Part-2
It is possible to copy files from a suspected laptop or computer with a special tool the Microsoft Corp. has provided law enforcement people access to and it uses publicly available programs that are combined to produce a sort of way to obtain information from a computer in as little as 10 to 15 minutes. [...]
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