Now Face Recognition Tech In Complete Darkness Arrives

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://fossbytes.com/now-face-recognition-in-complete-darkness/face-recognition-dark/" rel="attachment wp-att-15686" style="border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="face-recognition-dark" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-15686 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/01150719/face-recognition-dark.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="534" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/01150719/face-recognition-dark.jpg" style="border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="906" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SPR:</em> </span>Researchers at a German Insitute have devised a technology that would take the face recognition technology to new levels. The deep neural system based computer network is able to identify the photos taken in an utter darkness.</div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(69, 72, 77) 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) -1px -1px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">I</span><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">n the past decade or so, there has been an exponential advancement in technology. The face detection and recognition technology was not left behind either. Facebook was in the news recently with its new face recognition technology where the social media site would</span><span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://allbabouttechbyspr.blogspot.com/2015/06/facebook-can-now-recognize-you-in.html" style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"> identify and recognize you</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">even if you are shying way from the camera.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> This time, the German computer scientists Saquib Sarfaraz and Rainer Stiefelhagen have developed a face recognition system that works even in complete darkness. The latest technology works by analyzing Infra-Red images of a person in darkness and then comparing them with the existing images taken in daylight.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Taking images is the simple part. The challenge was to compare the two image sets. For that, they created a computer program that utilizes a deep neural network system which imitates the functioning of the human brain. The scientists published in their study that their deep neural network system was able to recognize 4,585 images in just 35 ms, comparing the Infra-Red set from the regular ones.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> In past few months, Google showed us its creativity, as they coupled the photo recognition technology with some artificial intelligence and developed the Google Photos.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Also Read: <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://allbabouttechbyspr.blogspot.com/2015/06/facebook-can-now-recognize-you-in.html" style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Facebook Can Now Recognize You in Photos Without Even Seeing Your Face</a></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> However, like all new innovations, this tech is not perfect yet. The accuracy rate was 80% if there were a good number of regular visible light photos. As the IR images were compared with only one image taken in broad daylight, the recognition accuracy dropped to 55%.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> The idea to analyze the images taken in the dark would hugely benefit the police department since most of their suspects are pictured at night, while they are at work, through surveillance cameras.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Via: <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/539656/deep-neural-nets-can-now-recognize-your-face-in-thermal-images/" style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">MIT</a></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Now Face Recognition Tech In Complete Darkness Arrives

SPR:   Researchers at a German Insitute have devised a technology that would take the face recognition technology to new levels. The dee...

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New “Smart Windows” Will Control Heat and Light

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/26202445/smart-windows-.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="smart-windows-" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-15078 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/26202445/smart-windows-.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="558" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/26202445/smart-windows-.jpg" style="border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="970" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SPR: </em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows are a significant part of our homes, and with our homes getting smarter,</em> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">it’s time to make our windows smarter too. The most basic role of windows in our homes is to let fresh air and light inside but imagine if you had options for these things. Suppose it’s a sunny day, you need light to come in but don’t want the heat outside to step in. With your normal window, you don’t have any option other than to close it, but the upcoming smart windows of our smart age bestow you the control to regulate the heat and the light entering your home.</em></div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat" style="background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">R</span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">esearchers have successfully created new materials that let windows to allow light enter without transferring heat and conversely, from outside to inside and vice-versa.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> It was for the first time in 2013 that a professor at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas namely, Delia Milliron along with her team led to the invention of electrochromic materials that blend two materials to provide a selective control of visible and heat-generating near- infrared light (NIR).</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> The group demonstrated that a nano-crystal material could be switched back and forth by using a small jolt of electricity, which in return enables an independent control of light and energy. And this time, the group has escalated the research work by introducing two new advancements in the electrochromic materials- a highly efficient and selective cool and warm mode. This was never thought ever before that a window could be used to regulate the heat entering through it. With the rising mercury, the introduction of this mode is a good step. Moreover, it will be helping to commercialize the product in a momentous manner. Noticeably, it enables the control of 90 percent of NIR and 80 percent of the visible sunlight and gladly, it takes just few minutes to switch between the modes.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-1" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/26134102/smart-windows.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="smart-windows" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-15069 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/26134102/smart-windows.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="549" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/26134102/smart-windows.jpg" style="border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="572" /></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> These smart windows can be foreseen as an impressive idea to reduce energy costs for cooling buildings and homes during summer time. In another study, the team has described that they can achieve optical control properties in a window from a well-crafted, single component film.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Also read:<span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://allbabouttechbyspr.blogspot.in/2015/07/a-400000-super-helmet-that-sees-through.html" style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A $400,000 Super Helmet That Sees Through Walls</a></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Then, coming to the warm mode: a simple coating can create the warm mode, in which visible light can be blocked while the infrared radiations can enter freely. This can be exalting on a winter day when you want the warmth to seep in while avoiding the sunlight.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> In the study regarding the smart windows published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the team evinced that a coating consisting of a single-component doped titania nanocrystals is capable to to depict a dynamic control over the transmittance of solar radiations. Moreover, because of the two different charging mechanisms, which can be obtained only at two distinct applied voltages, this material is capable of selectively blocking the visible or infrared radiations.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Source:<span style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://news.utexas.edu/2015/07/23/smarter-window-materials-can-control-light-and-energy" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">University of Texas at Austin</a></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Are you excited about these smart windows? Tell us through your comments.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> For more updates and interesting stories from SPRTech, subscribe to our newsletter.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

New “Smart Windows” Will Control Heat and Light

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Windows 10 Steals Your Internet Bandwidth to Send Updates to Others, Disable It Here

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/peer-to-peer-p2p-update-microsoft-windows-10.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="peer-to-peer-p2p-update-microsoft-windows-10" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-5751 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/peer-to-peer-p2p-update-microsoft-windows-10.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="557" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/peer-to-peer-p2p-update-microsoft-windows-10.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="918" /></span></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Short Bytes:</span> Windows 10 steals your internet bandwidth without your knowledge to share updates with others. This option is enabled by default in Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro. You can turn this feature off in your update settings. Read more to know detailed instructions.</span></em></div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat" style="background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;"><span style="color: #444444;">L</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">ong back in March,</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> SPRTech reported</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">that Windows 10 will be downloading and distributing updates to others using peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol. Now that Windows 10 is released, and</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you can grab with even without any upgrade icon</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">, Windows 10 is busy using your internet connection to distribute updates to other people on the Internet. Actually, Microsoft has done this to reduce the stress on its servers.  Earlier, it was expected that this feature will only work for PCs on your local networks.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows 10 steals your internet bandwidth </span>due to a feature called Windows Update Delivery Optimization. It is enabled in Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro versions. Windows 10 Enterprise and Education have this feature enabled, but it works only for the PCs on your own local network.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Just like torrents, everyone having Windows 10 on their PCs, by default distributes some updates to the people who need it. This makes the update process for other fast and less troublesome for Microsoft. Using your data connection to share updates may seem like a good gesture, but what if your data connection isn’t unlimited?</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">For those who are having a limited data connection, this feature will use lots of your allotted data and you won’t even realize it. Microsoft has said that this feature will only share updates and it won’t download or send any personal data.</span></div> <h3 style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Windows 10 steals your Internet Bandwidth, How to Stop It?</span></h3> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Follow these simple steps to turn off the Windows Update Delivery Optimization feature in Windows 10 to save your data:</span></div> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Search for “Windows update settings” in the Start menu and click on the desktop app.</span></li> </ul> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-1" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234630/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update4" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-15528 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234630/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="517" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234630/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="312" /></span></a></div> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Under the “Windows Update”, find and click on “Advanced options.”</span></li> </ul> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-2" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234636/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update2.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update4" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-15529 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234636/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update2.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="570" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234636/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update2.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="720" /></span></a></div> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Now under “Choose how updates are installed” click “Choose how updates are delivered.”</span></li> </ul> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-3" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234641/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update3.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update4" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-15530 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234641/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update3.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="571" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234641/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update3.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="724" /></span></a></div> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Disable the toggle under “Updated from more than one place.”</span></li> </ul> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-4" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234648/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update4.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update4" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-15531 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234648/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update4.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="579" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30234648/windows-10-steals-internet-bandwidth-update4.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="727" /></span></a></div> <div data-textannotation-id="3af9cf5c4a1275af6d848aaa321ed632" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">This looks a great feature for getting updates quickly and sharing updates with your local network PCs if you are running Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education. But knowing that Windows 10 steals your Internet bandwidth on Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro versions, and spends your data without your knowledge, it doesn’t feel that great.</span></div> <div data-textannotation-id="3af9cf5c4a1275af6d848aaa321ed632" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Did you find this article helpful? Tell us in comments below.</span></div> <div data-textannotation-id="3af9cf5c4a1275af6d848aaa321ed632" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">For more updates and Windows 10 tutorials from SPRTech, subscribe to our newsletter</span>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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What is Traffic Fingerprinting and How it is Used to Attack Tor Network

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="tor-traffic-fingerprinting" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-15518 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30194003/tor-traffic-fingerprinting.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="596" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30194003/tor-traffic-fingerprinting.jpg" style="border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;" width="1049" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Traffic fingerprinting is a technique used to sniff the web traffic by analyzing the data packets’ flow pattern- without removing the encryption. This technique has been recently used successfully to break the layers of anonymity of the Tor network users and hidden services.</em></div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat" style="background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">T</span><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">he Tor network is one of the most used popular system used to provide anonymity to the Internet users. People dive into the dark paths of the Deep Web using Tor network and remain hidden from the ordinary world. People like journalists, hackers, law enforcement officials, whistleblowers – and criminals have been using Tor network from a long time. But, lately, many security researchers have outlined the possible loopholes in Tor network that could be exploited to deploy an attack.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Just a few days ago we read about <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tor Honeypot that could be used to set up a trap</span> </span>to capture the Tor user’s identity. Today, we are telling you about a <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/tor-vulnerability-0729" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">research done by MIT and QCRI</a> </span>researchers that outlines vulnerabilities in Tor’s design. Before going into the details, let me explain the working of Tor as traffic fingerprinting is a continuation of the same.</div> <h2 style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.7px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> How Tor works and why it’s called “The Onion Router”</h2> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> A Tor network consists of many Tor-installed computers connected to the Internet. Each time a Tor user makes a request to visit a website like <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://fossbytes.com/" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">S</a>PRTech</span>, his/her computer will enclose this Web request in multiple encryption layers, and forward it to the a computer(called guard) which is a part of the Tor network. This selection is totally random and user’s request could be forwarded to any computer on the network. Now, guard computer will peel off the top layer of encryption and pass it to another random computer- and so on. As the wrapped request reaches the last computer, the final encryption layer is peeled off.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So, multiple layers of encryption like layers of onion – hence, Tor is an acronym for “The Onion Router.”</em></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">This last computer is known as the exit node and it knows the request’s final destination. Thus, the guard knows the address of the user, and the exit knows the address of the destination. </span></div> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30193344/tor-structure.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="tor-structure" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-15517 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30193344/tor-structure.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="608" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/30193344/tor-structure.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="1000" /></span></a><br /> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Tor network also provides some “hidden services” that protect the anonymity of destination site as well. These websites are configured to access traffic coming only through Tor network. The host’s computer uses Tor routers as the “introduction points” that are used by people to access the hidden website’s content.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> If a person wants to browse the hidden service, a “Tor circuit” is created. User’s and host’s computer build Tor-secured links to the introduction point- that forms this Tor circuit. I<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dentifying more hosts, </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">routers,</span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and the browser- Tor circuit builds another circuits. It’s called a rendezvous point and once again it has an anonymous location.</span></div> <h2 style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.7px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> What is traffic fingerprinting and how is it used to attack Tor network?</h2> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is traffic fingerprinting?</span> The basic website traffic fingerprinting refers to recognize the web traffic by analyzing the patterns, responses, and packets sent and received in a particular direction- everything despite the use encryption or anonymity.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How is it used to attack Tor network?</span> The traffic fingerprinting in Tor requires that attacker’s computer to act as the guard on a Tor circuit. If an attacker manages to connect lots of machines to the Tor network, there are good odds that, on some occasion, some computer of attacker will be at the right place and at the right times to sniff the traffic.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> When a Tor circuit is established, the systems on Tor network pass a huge amount of data. MIT News writes: “By looking for patterns in the number of packets passing in each direction through a guard, machine-learning algorithms could, with 99% accuracy, determine whether the circuit was an ordinary Web-browsing circuit, an introduction-point circuit, or a rendezvous-point circuit.” To achieve this, breaking Tor’s encryption wasn’t necessary.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Similarly, using a Tor-enabled computer, traffic analysis could identify the hidden services with 88% accuracy. So, if the attacker happens to be in luck as a guard for a user, he/she can tell which sites the user accessed.</div> <h2 style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.7px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> How to defend against traffic fingerprinting in Tor network?</h2> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Researchers recommend to mask the sequences to make all the sequences look identical- actually, send dummy data packets to make all different circuits look the same.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> “We are considering their countermeasures as a potential improvement to the hidden service,” they add. “But we think we need more concrete proof that it definitely fixes the issue.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Traffic fingerprinting in Tor network isn’t something that could be done over a period of few days. An attacker must spend a long time to collect data and to dig deeper into the network.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Did you find this article helpful? Tell us in comments below.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> For more updates and interesting stories from SPRTech, subscribe to our newsletter.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

What is Traffic Fingerprinting and How it is Used to Attack Tor Network

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CISA Bill To Give Your Entire Personal Info To Government

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/31014057/cisa-nsa.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="cisa-nsa" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-15549 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/31014057/cisa-nsa.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="481" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/31014057/cisa-nsa.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="867" /></span></a></span></em></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">The recently proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by the government looks like another surveillance law that outrightly gives it the power to look through your personal information without issuing any warrants.</span></em></div> </div> <div class="su-row" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat" style="background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;"><span style="color: #444444;">M</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">ost of you think that the data that social media websites store about you is used for the ads that you see in your feed, but what if it was a part of a bigger plan and all of your personal information is being </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shared with the government</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">. The latest CISA bill proposed by the American government intends to do exactly the same.</span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444;">As per the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act or CISA bill, the service provider companies would be given an authority to keep an eye on their users. Then in order to defend this act of spying from the previous surveillance laws, the companies will have to share the information of users that seem like the potential threats or “cyber threat indicators” with the government. NSA has already disclosed its <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">snooping tool XKEYSCORE</span> that can get them your complete information just using your email id.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444;">There have been regular protests by the citizens against the government intrusion, but all the acts are dismissed in the name of national security. The laws such as Electronic Communications Privacy Act 1986 allows <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">government to snoop through your emails</span> and now the CISA bill adds to the woes of the public.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444;">The government’s proposed cybersecurity bill looks like just another surveillance law in disguise. How much of the cybercrime will be stopped- it can’t be deduced, but this law gives the government a complete authority to snoop through the accounts and gather your personal information.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Whistleblower Edward Snowden has previously revealed how NSA compromises the privacy of US citizens and the extent of government’s intrusion. So, for all the details he has diverted, the White House wants to <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">send Snowden to prison</span>.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444;">The CISA bill is currently pushed in the US Senate and will allow the government to collect all the data including those of potential hackers.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444;">There has been an ever going debate whether the government should be allowed to intrude its citizens’ privacy and call it the measures against the cyber threats.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444;">The Internet is a platform for freedom and self-expression and should remain so. The government needs to come with better plans to counter the attackers without creating fear in the mind of its citizens.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #444444;">What do you feel about CISA bill? 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CISA Bill To Give Your Entire Personal Info To Government

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Mark Zuckerberg: Virtual Reality is the Obvious Next Step for Facebook

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/31132036/facebook-virtual-reality-oculus-zuckerberg.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="facebook-virtual-reality-oculus-zuckerberg" class="lazy aligncenter wp-image-15591 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/31132036/facebook-virtual-reality-oculus-zuckerberg.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="534" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/31132036/facebook-virtual-reality-oculus-zuckerberg.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="942" /></span></a></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Zuckerberg announces Virtual Reality to be the next step after video for Facebook in its Q2 earnings call. Immersive 3-D content will be the future for human communication overtaking videos and gaming.</em></div> </div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(69, 72, 77) 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; color: white; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) -1px -1px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;">T</span>here us no stopping to Facebook CEO and Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg. After the recent announcement of surfacing <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">targeted videos </span>on the Home Page, Zuckerberg gave another one of his ambitious proposals to the investors at the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Human communication in the IT era began as text messages, then it moved to photographs, currently we are streaming through videos and as Mr Zuckerberg plans then <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">immersive 3D content is the obvious next thing after video</em>. He has ambitious plans for the future that involve the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">virtual reality taking over</span> almost all the spheres of social media, gaming, and change the human interaction like never before.</div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook has acquired VR startup Oculus in March last year and since then have been aggressively promoting the Virtual Reality future for everyone. The <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oculus Rift headsets</span> will be available for consumers in 2016.</div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Zuckerberg said<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “There’s always a richer way that people want to share and consume thoughts and feelings”</em></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook meanwhile, continues to grow its user base worldwide with 968 million desktop users accessing the website on an average per day in June this year compared to 829 million users per day in June last year. The social media giant earned a whopping US$4.04 billion in revenue in the Q2 this year while the previous year record of Q2 revenue was US$2.91 billion.</div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook has lately been spending a lot on its research and development wing focusing on building drones and <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lasers</span> that apparently would beam down <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cheap Internet to about 5 billion people</span> on the globe.</div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Google isn’t far behind when it comes to innovations. Just a few days back Google and the Sri Lankan govt signed a MoU for the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Project Google Loon</span> that will provide cheap 3G Internet service covering the entire island nation with 13 of Google’s balloons beaming the network from the stratosphere over the country.</div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Facebook is big on innovations and creativity included with shrewd business strategies. Well, the stats talk for themselves.</div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Source: <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://investor.fb.com/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=162251" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #3366ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Facebook</a></span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For more updates and interesting stories, subscribe to SPRTech newsletter.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Mark Zuckerberg: Virtual Reality is the Obvious Next Step for Facebook

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How to Stop Windows 10 From Sharing Your WiFi Password

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-0" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-11269 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="555" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="965" /></span></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows 10 </span>is released and I’ve been writing about the new features Microsoft is planning to provide in this next version of Windows. In this article, I’m going to talk about the WiFi Sense feature built into Windows 10 and how to stop it from sharing your WiFi.</span></div> <div class="su-row" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Ubuntu, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"> <div class="su-column su-column-size-1-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 134.390625px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> </div> <div class="su-column su-column-size-4-5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 32px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 633.59375px;"> <div class="su-column-inner su-clearfix" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span class="su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-default" style="background: linear-gradient(rgb(69, 72, 77) 0%, rgb(0, 0, 0) 100%); border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.5em; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; margin: 0px 0.5em 0.2em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-shadow: rgb(0, 0, 0) -1px -1px 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2em;"><span style="color: #444444;">W</span></span><span style="color: #444444;">iFi Sense was originally launched as a Windows Phone 8.1 feature that has been promoted to the Windows 10 PCs. This feature allows you to share WiFi network access using your Facebook, Outlook and Skype contacts. When turned on, <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WiFi Sense</span> works in background and looks up for the open WiFi networks that your PC can use for running internet.</span><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-1" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-1.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-1" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-11271 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-1.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="300" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-1.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="650" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">So, if you visit a public place with open WiFi or your friend’s home, your device will automatically detect the open internet and use it. Thus WiFi Sense does these things on its own and saves you from the hassle of providing tiny details. When you connect to a WiFi network in Windows 10, you’ll have the option to make your internet “shared with your contacts.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">The Microsoft forum lists its primary features as follows:</span></div> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Automatically detect and connect you to the open WiFi networks.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Accepting the WiFi network’s terms of use on your behalf.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;">Allowing you to exchange password protected access with your contacts and get the internet access without sharing the password.</span></li> </ul> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Now, let me tell you something more about it. WiFi Sense can make use of your Facebook, Skype and Outlook accounts and download any networks that are being shared with you. It allows your PC to determine who your friends are and who are ready to share their internet with you.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Another thing, Microsoft doesn’t ask for your permissions to access the Skype and Outlook contacts as these services are owned itself by Microsoft.</span></div> <span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span><h2 style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.7px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="color: #444444;">How to enable or disable WiFi Sense?</span></h2> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">To configure WiFi Sense, you need to go to<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Settings</em> and select <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Network and Internet</em>.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Then head to<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> WiFi</em> and find <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Manage WiFi Settings</em>.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-2" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/21174029/wifi-sense1.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="wifi-sense1" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-15580 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/21174029/wifi-sense1.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="579" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/21174029/wifi-sense1.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="770" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Here you can enable or disable WiFi sense on your Windows 10 PC. Apart from this, you can choose the sources that will be used by Windows 10 to share the Internet with – Facebook, Outlook and Skype.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-3" href="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-2.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-1" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-11270 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-2.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="405" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/wifi-sense-microsoft-internet-share-2.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="645" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">To stop Windows 10 from sharing your WiFi password, you need to uncheck all the boxes you see in “Manage WiFi Settings.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a data-rel="lightbox-4" href="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/21174029/wifi-sense.jpg" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444;"><img alt="wifi-sense" class="lazy aligncenter size-full wp-image-15579 data-lazy-ready" data-lazy-src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/21174029/wifi-sense.jpg" data-lazy-type="image" height="695" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/21174029/wifi-sense.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease; border-radius: 2px; border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 18px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" width="663" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note:</span> If you choose to share your internet with your contacts, keep in mind that this sharing is “indiscriminate.” It will share your internet with ALL your friends.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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