How To Find Out If Your Twitter Account Is Vulnerable
To Hackers
… Want to know how
secure your Twitter account is? Here’s
an easy way to find out. Head to the Twitter applications settings
page. There, you can see a full list
of the third-party applications that have “write” access to your account: Apps
that let you post to Twitter without being on Twitter dot com.
“No strategy. We
just thought it was neat!”
Big Brother is listening as well as watching
… This past week,
following revelations that New Jersey Transit didn’t have policies governing
storage and who had access to data from audio surveillance on some of its light-rail trains, the
agency ended the program.
The Associated Press reported in April that NJ Transit had
been using audio recording systems on train lines
between Trenton and Camden, in Newark and Hudson County.
Dennis Martin, former interim executive director of the
agency, told the AP that the goal was to “deter criminal activity” and keep
passengers safe.
But he refused to say how the audio data is stored, for
how long, who reviewed it and when or how it was destroyed, saying only, “there
are laws that govern that and we’re in compliance.”
Critics, including commuter organizations, contended that
the recording violated both the First Amendment (free speech) and Fourth
Amendment (unreasonable search) rights of passengers.
… Of course, New
Jersey is not alone, nor is it the first. The Baltimore Sun reported
in March that the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) has used audio recording on some of its mass transit vehicles since 2012.
It is now used on 65 percent of buses,
and 82 percent of subway trains have audio recording capability, but don’t use
it yet, according to the Sun.
And cities in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio,
Nevada, Oregon and California have either installed systems or moved to procure
them, in many cases with funding from the federal Department of Homeland
Security (DHS).
Everyone wants a App that can vacuum your wallet.
Walmart debuts new mobile pay app
Walmart last week became the latest retailer to join the
trend toward mobile payments when it debuted a new system in all its Missouri
locations.
The system is an addition to the Walmart app and can be
used with any kind of credit or debit card and any kind of smartphone.
"People
forget their wallets, but most people don’t forget their phones,"
said Farai Madzura, manager of the Walmart Express in downtown Columbia. "These days we use our phones for
everything."
… These apps use
"transaction specific dynamic security codes," which means the user's
actual card numbers are never shared. Instead, a unique code is used to
identify every purchase made.
The new Walmart system keeps the encrypted card
information on file, but it is protected by a personal passcode, Madzura said.
Perspective. US
market is flat so Amazon wants in to the Indian market.
Amazon 'returns' to smartphone market with special edition
phones
… After its own
Fire phone flopped, Amazon is selling special editions of other manufacturers'
phones at a $50 discount. They'll come
with ads on the lock screen and about 10 Amazon apps on the home screen.
Amazon.com is touting the discount as a benefit of its
$100-a-year Prime loyalty program. Membership
is required, and Amazon figures that those customers will appreciate having
single sign-on access to Amazon's various apps.
Why are some students always late? Dilbert explains.
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