Edward Snowden Tackles Phone Security
When Edward Snowden met with reporters in a Hong Kong hotel room to reveal NSA secrets, he famously asked them to put their phones in the fridge to block any radio signals that might be used to secretly activate the devices microphones or cameras. It’s fitting then that 3 years later he has returned to […]
A More Moral Artificial Intelligence?
With the rampant increase on reliance to technology in modern culture, Artificial Intelligence adoption and improvement have steadily increased as well. With the penetration that AI has seen in the technology market, there is an increasing desire to create an intelligence capable of moral reasoning. The common picture painted for the need of a moralistic […]
How A Turkish Coup Highlighted An Unfortunate Truth
Over the weekend, the internet may have saved the regime of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In a blinding display of irony, the longtime critic and proponent for strict regulation of the internet utilized Apple’s Facetime video-calling app to mobilize citizens against a military coup. Erdogan, who was on vacation at the time of […]
Washington Wants A Say in Small Business Security
A presidential cybersecurity commission wraps up its information-gathering phase with a hearing this week in Huston, where they are requesting public comments. Another event is planned for next month in Minneapolis with the hopes to tie together a long-term cyberstrategy by a Dec. 1 deadline. The commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity was launched under […]
New Google Study Promotes Cloud
The Economist Intelligence Unit has released a study sponsored by Google that focuses on the benefits of the cloud. That being said the validity of the study might be called into question considering that google has a vested interest in cloud services. That’s right, the study focuses on the benefits of migrating to the […]
Is the New iOS 10 Just A Lockscreen Now?
It’s easy to see change as a negative, especially if that change effects something close to you. And in today’s world what’s closer to you than your smartphone? Ask anyone and likely they would be hesitant to let you change anything on their phone, even a seemingly small change can have a large impact after […]