security
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Bye, Bye Catfish: Tinder Will Now Verify Your Photos
There are many advantages to online dating on apps like Tinder or Grindr. A great number of potential dates, ease of use, GIFs. But one of the downsides is the uncertainty of whether the person you’ve matched with is the real person behind the phone or computer screen. But a new feature announced by Tinder…
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Ring’s New Always Home Cam Is Actually an Indoor Spy Drone
Among an avalanche of new Echo and Ring devices announced by Amazon today, there’s one that stuck out as a clear step towards our dystopian future: the Ring Always Home Cam.
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A Computer Can Guess More Than 100,000,000,000 Passwords Per Second
Passwords have been used for thousands of years as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers. It’s a simple concept – a shared piece of information, kept secret between individuals and used to “prove” identity. Passwords in an IT context emerged in the 1960s with mainframe computers –…
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Prison Phone App Exposes Millions of Inmate Messages and Personal Data
As many incarcerated individuals are having their visiting privileges restricted due to the global pandemic, Telmate’s Getting Out app has become one of the only options that families separated by incarceration have to keep in touch. But according to research published today, hundreds of millions of intimate messages from many millions of inmates were sitting…