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First Step to Effective Security – How to Know if You’ve Been Hacked

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Security 11:42 AM

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The online world is becoming scarier each day and the possibility of getting hacked gets increased each time you sign into your online accounts. It’s possible that you haven’t been hacked yet, but you must ensure to follow secure practices to remain safe in the future.</div>
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News of new data breaches and password thefts are as common as any other development around you. These attacks occur via various means- either through a malicious email, or a flaw in your computer’s operating system. Even the White House and Pentagon aren’t immune to hackers.</div>
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There have been about 5,593 data breaches since the year 2005 and this number is rising exponentially. These breaches have exposed about 800.3 million individual records alone in the United States.</div>
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Also read: 888 Data Breaches So Far In 2015 and 246 Million Records Lost</div>
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These data breaches are a big risk that ask you to be prepared and follow secure practices.</div>
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The Identity Theft Resource Center defines data breach as an “incident in which an individual name plus a Social Security number, driver’s license number, medical record or financial record (credit/debit cards included) is potentially put at risk because of exposure.”</div>
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So, what do I lose in a data breach?</h3>
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Usually, it’s just your basic information like name and email addresses. By collecting this basic information and connecting the dots, an expert hacker can gain tons of other sensitive information to hurt you in various ways.</div>
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As written in the Forrester report, Planning for Failure, “even enterprises with the most mature security organizations and advanced security controls can’t prevent every single breach — especially if your opponent has the time and financial backing to target you.”</div>
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The situation is getting worse with time and keeping your data safe from the reach of the prying eyes must be your top priority.</div>
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But, how to know if you’ve been hacked?</h3>
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With the increase in hacking attacks, a number of sites have opened up that give you alerts when data breaches take place. One of the best places to get these announcements is the mailing hosted at the <a href="http://www.idtheftcenter.org/id-theft/data-breaches.html">Identity Theft Resource Center</a>. It sends regular emails with the weekly data breach information in your inbox.</div>
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Haveibeenpwned.com is another website that allows you to check if hackers have compromised your personal information. The website also tells you the reason and incident when your email address was breached.</div>
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Another website called Was Company Hacked? performs a Twitter-based search to tell you if there’s any activity on Twitterverse about attacks on the company.</div>
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PwnedList and Shouldichangemypassword.com offer a similar service that notify users with email if an email address in compromised.</div>
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You are also advised to keep your antivirus updated and scan your system using a good antimalware scan. Your irregular financial statement could be another hint that your data is compromised.</div>
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Stay informed, stay safe.</div>
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In the follow-up article, I’ll be describing what should be done if your data is hacked. Stay tuned.</div>
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First Step to Effective Security – How to Know if You’ve Been Hacked

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Wood Kubb Is A Computer Made of Wood That Runs On Linux And Windows

Shivam Patsariya 0 11:20 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are bored by the designs of present day PCs, I won’t be surprised. To turn the things around, Wood Kubb is here to give your eyes a visual treat.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, I’m talking about a computer made of wood and it fits perfectly in your newly designed dream home. It just looks like a furniture item, sitting on your table and powering your work and entertainment.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wood Kubbs websites says,” The computer is an everyday object and we are used to see a huge annoying PC tower under the desk. It is often ugly, noisy, unaesthetic and means a loss of space.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The maker of Wood Kubb created this piece of beauty by embedding an Intel Core i3/i5 processor, coupled with RAM of 8 to 16GB (Kingston DDR3 at 1600 MHz). It covers a very small area as it just measures 4.7-inches all around.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Due to the size and cooling constraints, you won’t be getting a dedicated graphics memory and you’ll have to settle with Intel HD 4400/Intel 5000 graphics.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Users are given a 128 GB of SSD storage (1TB SSHD option), and a choice between Windows 10 and Linux Mint. The Windows 10 version costs more, of course.</span></i></span></div>
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<i style="line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Kickstarter page of Wood Kubb reads, “We want to change your daily life and boost your mood. The goal was to find a solution for each of these issues. From design to creation, everything is made in France. The quality is our priority and we warranty your Wood Kubb for 3 years.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Currently, Wood Kubb is offering a 3-year backer program and your computer will be fixed or replaced in the next 3 years, no matter where you are.</span></i></span></div>
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Wood Kubb Is A Computer Made of Wood That Runs On Linux And Windows

Wood Kubb is a computer made of wood and it fits perfectly in your newly designed dream home. It just fits in your home and powers y...

What is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Why You Should Use it?

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, Hack 11:18 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A </em><span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i>part from being an important part of the SPRTech, FOSS is globally understood as a computer software that is both free as well as open source. We started SPRTech with an aim to promote the use of open source technologies and open source software, but seeing the lack of interest in common people, we decided to cover other topics too. However, FOSS remains the driving wheel of SPRTech.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you are new to this term then this will give you a better understanding. Consider a software that you built, and out of generosity maybe, you made it available for everyone to use it for free. Also, people now could modify what you have originally created to suit their own needs. So now, it is both free and open software, in short FOSS.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The concept seems amazing, right? You build something, I create something and then let us share with the world, maybe someone will give it back to us with an improvised version. But that doesn’t happen. What do you think made Bill Gates so rich?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the computers were beginning to mark their presence in the world, so did the demand for better software. Earlier, the hardware provider would be in charge of the software products, but later the business around software industry developed and brought in the new players. And with the competitive business around, came the proprietary or closed software.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Open Source vs Proprietary </span></i></span><span style="line-height: 28.8px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Software's</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are two types of software used today. One that we are discussing about, the Open source software and the other is Proprietary software. Simply stated, the software that you can’t tweak and whose source code cannot be modified by anyone but the creator and his team is known as Proprietary software or closed software.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Linux and FreeCAD are some of the open source software whereas the popular OS like Windows and MathWorks MATLAB are proprietary software.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also read: The History of Linux: How Linux Became Everyone’s Favorite</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are Open Source Software Free as well?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No. Open source is what we just told you it is, and it is not necessary that an open source software be free. You could sell your software, but since you have to release the source code as well, so most of the times developers charge money from the users for the software services and support rather than the software, which seems a better way.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The good thing about FOSS or general open source software is that some of the open source licenses make sure that whenever anyone makes modifications in the source code, then he must not charge any fee for sharing it again with others. And the cycle thus continues.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why Open Source?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First, knowing the software on what you are working boosts your confidence as it gives you the control over the system. If something goes wrong or you want any specific feature to be added, you can easily customize the open source software.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Second, you can learn by watching the source code of the software and in future create an even better one.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is one slight problem that open source software users might encounter is that when someone modifies the software and you upgrade it, the new source code can clash with your tweaks.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who Benefits from the Open Source Software?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now a software that is open source might not seem to be of much importance to most of the people, but the fact is that FOSS benefits both programmers and regular users alike. No doubt that for the developers it is a play area where they can change the original source code of the software to create something better, the non-programmers should thank the open source system as it is the basis of much of the Internet.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.8px;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Open Source, in general, was an idea started by the free software movement with the goals of giving the user freedom to run, study, change and distribute the software without any hassles. The GNU Project by Richard Stallman in 1985 was regarded as a high moment for the free software movement as a fundamental philosophical source.</span></i></span></div>
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FOSS (Free And Open Software) is the modern day result of the free software movement that draws its philosophies from the 1970's hacke...

Brain Hack: How Scientists Connected One Brain To The Other Over Internet

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Science 11:10 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, we are talking about the recent research conducted by the University Of Washington where a direct brain-to-brain connection was used. This was done to enable pairs of participants play a question-and-answer game by transmitting signals from one human brain to the other over the Internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here’s how they made it big:</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; 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="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Miles away, Player 2 is aided with a special magnet at the back of his head, connected to the EEG system over the Internet.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; 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="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Player 2 then selects a question from a computer screen. The question is sent to Player 1’s screen. Player 1 looks intently at either the “yes” flashing light or “no.”</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Participants were able to guess the correct object in 72 percent of the real games. Incorrect guesses could be influenced by several factors. For instance, being uncertainty about whether a phosphene had appeared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the most complex brain-to-brain experiment, I think, that’s been done to date in humans</em>“</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The team is also working on transmitting brain states — for example, sending signals from an alert person to a sleepy one, or from a focused student to one who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.</span></div>
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Brain Hack: How Scientists Connected One Brain To The Other Over Internet

Research on a direct brain-to-brain connection was conducted by the University Of Washington. This was done to enable pairs of participant...

Digital India Profile Pic Tool Confusion Was an Engineer’s Mistake, Facebook Says

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="google-mobile-app-indian-governemnt-pm-modi-digital-india" height="340" loading="lazy" src="http://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/google-mobile-app-indian-governemnt-pm-modi-digital-india.jpg" width="640" /><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After facing widespread criticism over the tri-color profile picture tool and its relation to<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internet.org</span>, Facebook has said that it was a Facebook engineer’s mistake.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">F</em><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">acebook’s recent</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> tri-color profile picture tool</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> to show support to the Digital India initiative is </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">facing criticism</span> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">as it was claimed that the company plans to use them to show support for the controversial</span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> initiative.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, in an expected move, Facebook has denied the charge and called it a Facebook engineer’s mistake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For those who don’t know, yesterday it was revealed that the<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">source code of the Facebook page</span></span> showed that these pictures were named <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internetOrgprofilepicture </em>and it was said that it could be used in the future by Facebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Denying the claims, Facebook has said: <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There is absolutely no connection between updating your profile picture for digital India and <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>.”</em></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“An engineer mistakenly used the words “<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> profile picture” as a shorthand name he chose for part of the code. But this product in no way connects to or registers support for <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>. We are changing the code today to eliminate any confusion.”</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The mistake has been corrected by Facebook and the picture is now named <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">digitalIndiaProfilePicture.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, Facebook’s explaination sound fishy as every software engineer is given a description before doing a project. The fact that the string <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internetOrgprofilepicture </em>comes to his/her mind on the Digital India project couldn’t be just coincidental.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, the truth remains to be uncovered but it would be harmless to assume that Facebook is definitely gaining something in return of this support to Digital India campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It doesn’t prove anything but it says one thing loud and clear: <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Zuckerberg will try to prove <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internet.org</span> as one of many ways in which Digital India can be achieved.</em></span></div>
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Digital India Profile Pic Tool Confusion Was an Engineer’s Mistake, Facebook Says

After facing widespread criticism over the tri-color profile picture tool and its relation to internet.org , Facebook has said that it was...

For the 3rd Time in Less than 2 Weeks, Facebook Went Down

Unknown 0 FbTrick 3:44 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Multiple users from all over the globe received “something went wrong” message and some users got a blank page with service unavailable message at the top left corner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook is generally very reliable, but three downtimes in a month are very unusual. The first outage earlier this month lasted for five minutes for most users and the second one took 10 minutes. It should be noted that today’s outage appears is the longest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Facebook has confirmed the problem via its <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">developer site</span></span>, “A Facebook-wide issue is causing the Facebook Graph API to be temporarily unavailable. We’re working with our core infrastructure teams to identify the issue and will update you when we have more information.”</span></div>
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For the 3rd Time in Less than 2 Weeks, Facebook Went Down

Things aren’t going well at Facebook HQ. For the third time in less than two week, Facebook went down. T oday, at about 12:00 p.m....

Here’s Why You Should NOT Change Your Profile Pic to Digital India Tricolor

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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you check the source code of Digital India profile picture, you’ll realize that your new picture is being called as “internetOrgProfilePicture__prideAvatar” by Facebook. Read more to know why it sounds fishy.</span></em></div>
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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">t the Facebook HQ, Indian Prime Minister</span><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; 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;"> Narendra Modi and CEO took part in a public Q&A</span><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">and vowed their support to the Digital India initiative. Both of them changed their Facebook profile pictures to </span><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital India filter</em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"> and people are following the same course.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By converting your Facebook profile pictures into the hue of Indian flag, you are unknowingly casting your vote to support <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>. <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>  defies the<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span>basic idea of net neutrality</span> (read free and open internet).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While Digital India program aims to transform the Indian economy and empower it digitally, <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> is a different story. At fossBytes, we support the Digital India initiative, but Mark Zuckerberg’s <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> policies are way too shady. The social network has faced much flak over the issue and we don’t support it either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Digital India profile picture tool, with the URL <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">http://fb.com/supportdigitalindia</span>,</span> is there to support your support the “Digital India” campaign, but there’s something more to this story. Behind this, there’s a hidden story that hints that Facebook CEO is promoting his<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">controversial internet.org initiative</span></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you check the source code of the Digital India profile picture page, you’ll realize that your new picture is being called as “internetOrgProfilePicture__prideAvatar” by Facebook. Just open <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">this link</span>, </span>press ctrl+U to open the source code and search for the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Zuckerberg’s <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> is under the vigilant eyes for its anti-net neutrality nature. The mention of <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internet.org</span> sounds fishy in the HTML source code as it counts as your approval to <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span> and its anti-net neutrality nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Digital India is a great initiative, but this hidden agenda of Facebook is nothing less than evil. It’s possible that Facebook is using this stat as a measure to gain some information about your net neutrality stance and use this data in future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It doesn’t prove anything but it says one thing loud and clear: <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark Zuckerberg will try to prove <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internet.org</span> as one of many ways in which Digital India can be achieved.</em></span></div>
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Here’s Why You Should NOT Change Your Profile Pic to Digital India Tricolor

If you check the source code of Digital India profile picture, you’ll realize that your new picture is being called as “internetOrgProfile...