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Case Against NSA Dismissed Because Nobody Can Prove That It is Spying

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, WebNdSocial 10:42 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The US District Court has dismissed a lawsuit by Wikimedia against the NSA surveillance. The District Court ruled that the lawsuit merely rested on “the subjective fear of surveillance” and it was “unpersuasive,” “incomplete,” and “riddled with assumptions.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’s a widely accepted fact that USA government is busy spending billions on its NSA surveillance programs – thanks to Mr. Edward Snowden. But, proving the whole scenario in the court and presenting concrete evidences is a whole different kind of story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Due to this simple reason, a lawsuit by Wikimedia against the mighty NSA been thrown out of the court. The court mentioned there is no way to determine if the Wikimedia Foundation is under NSA surveillance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The US District Judge TS Ellis IIIt ruled against Wikimedia and stated that there isn’t enough evidence to “plausibly establish that the NSA is using upstream surveillance.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Wikimedia, supported by the likes of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International USA, complained about NSA’s surveillance as revealed by Edward Snowden. The lawsuit suggested that the massive amount of traffic Wikipedia receives suggest that the NSA’s mass surveillance must have included spying on the activities of Wikipedia users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Judge TS Ellis III stated that without proper context, it’s unclear whether or not Wikimedia is under the preying eyes of NSA. He rules that lawsuit merely rested on “the subjective fear of surveillance” and it was “unpersuasive,” “incomplete,” and “riddled with assumptions.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On the Wikimedia blog,  Michelle Paulson and Geoff Brigham, Legal Director and General Counsel, wrote about the possibility of the future appeals to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals: “We respectfully disagree with the Court’s decision to dismiss. There is no question that Upstream surveillance captures the communications of both the user community and the Wikimedia Foundation itself. We believe that our claims have merit.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The ACLU National Security Project Staff Attorney Patrick Toomey said,“The court has wrongly insulated the NSA’s spying from meaningful judicial scrutiny. The decision turns a blind eye to the fact that the government is tapping into the Internet’s backbone to spy on millions of Americans.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What are your thoughts on the rejected lawsuit against NSA syping? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Case Against NSA Dismissed Because Nobody Can Prove That It is Spying

SP's: The US District Court has dismissed a lawsuit by Wikimedia against the NSA surveillance. The District Court ruled that the la...

Are You Ready To Turn Your Phone Into a Drone with PhoneDrone?

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 10:40 AM

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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's : </b>xCraft, the drone manufacturer company that creates high-end affordable drone, has landed a deal with the Sharks at the Shark Tank with $1.5 million for 25%. It means that their idea of PhoneDrone, a smartphone that turns into a drone will be a reality soon.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, you have a smartphone. Well, can it fly? What, why do you look surprised? Phones can fly today, really, and the credit goes to xCraft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While some people were busy integrating guns to the humble drone, the CEO JD Claridge of the drone manufacturer company xCraft was silently working on his idea of transforming a smartphone into a drone or a PhoneDrone. PhoneDrone is hailed as a revolutionary product by its creators that would allow anyone with a smartphone to have fun with their personal flying robot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now the idea has got the solid backing and Claridge has landed xCraft a deal of $1.5 million with the Sharks on the ABC-TV’s Shark Tank. The board member Charles Manning along with Claridge were seeking $500,000 with 20% stake in xCraft and instead locked the deal with $1.5 M for 25%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">xCraft demonstrated a short video of its flagship PhoneDrone and the X Plus One drone that can travel at a maximum speed of 60 mph at the airplane mode and fly as high as 10,000 feet and has accomplished vertical take-off and landing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The PhoneDrone is an amazing concept at a relatively lesser price than all those high-end camera fitted drones. The drones hitherto used to be expensive because of the additional features of sensors, camera, and GPS, but since you already have all that and much more in your smartphones, so the PhoneDrone becomes an easy choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can dock your smartphone on the drone and with a special app you can control the flight and shoot some amazing pictures and videos from a tethered second phone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What you just read above was merely an idea limited to xCraft till now, but thanks to the Shark Tank deal, it would soon turn into a reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, why just own a phone when you own a flying phone. Check out the video by xCraft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Would you like a PhoneDrone experience? Tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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Are You Ready To Turn Your Phone Into a Drone with PhoneDrone?

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Google Hacker James Forshaw Tells Why Windows 10 Is Good As Well As Bad

Shivam Patsariya 0 AppsnSoftSecure, Security 10:35 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When we talk about the features and functionalities added in Windows 10, we think of the almost harmless Microsoft Edge browser, prompt Cortana, an option of multiple desktops etc. However, on the security front, Windows 10 has been accused of spying on the operating system users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the past, Microsoft tried to clear the confusion clouds by some explanations that didn’t offer anything concrete. In a recent security conference, renowned Google hacker James Forshaw gave Windows 10 a slight security approval and called it a “Two step forward, One step back” moment for Microsoft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For those who don’t know, James Forshaw is a security researcher in Google’s Project Team with a specialization in Windows. In the past, he has discovered some major loopholes in Windows and he did it again in his recent presentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Google hacker praised Microsoft for taking some steps to tighten the Windows security but bashed the Windows maker for the increased number of drivers and services. He pointed out that Windows 10 has 291 drivers and 196 system services enabled, which is higher that the previous iterations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“There are more system services and drivers which means more attack surface,” Forshaw says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Targetting the Windows 10 user account control, he went on to say that it’s “something you just put there to annoy the user” by displaying prompts to allow or block the apps all the time. This is a feature that is clearly failing to accomplish its mission of protecting its users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google hacker James Forshaw hoped that Microsoft will be soon fixing some issues with Windows 10 user account control. He also gave a demo of a token-capturing tool to bypass Windows 10 security mechanisms. This tool will be publicly released after Microsoft issues a patch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Talking about Windows 10’s Microsoft Edge web browser, he praised it for the improvements. But as a web browser in whole, he called it flawed. “Microsoft could have lead the way and said ‘I refuse to run (Adobe) Flash ever again in my web browser’ but unfortunately they did not take that inspired option,” Forshaw said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do agree with the Google hacker James Forshaw? Tell us in the comments.</span></div>
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Google Hacker James Forshaw Tells Why Windows 10 Is Good As Well As Bad

SP's: Accomplished Google hacker James Forshaw thinks that Microsoft has delivered a “good” operating system, but it has failed to ...

It’s Time to Get Yourself a 3D Selfie With CloneMe

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Science, tech 10:32 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Every alternate day, we are amazed by the ever-increasing applications of 3D printing. Ranging from printing prosthetics for children to a whole car, 3D printing is establishing itself as the future of manufacturing. Along the similar lines, a Bengaluru-based startup CloneMe has decided to come up with a unique idea that lets you print your own 3D printed replicas. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ever imagined a miniaturized figurine of yourself, that you could play with? Now this is possible. The omnipresent selfies have now moved to the next level of three dimensions, thanks to a Bangalore-based startup <a href="https://www.cloneme.in/">CloneMe </a>which uses 3D printing to create miniaturized replicas of humans as well as objects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3D printing as we know  is a built-up process, wherein an object is created from a digital image by placing a material, layer upon layer, in the required shape. The creator behind this startup, CloneMe is Siddharth Rathod, a Bengaluru-born 24-year-old graduate in Electronics and Communications from Bangalore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The startup has already started operating by opening a store in the city, and it attracts a large crowd because of the innovation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now let’s see how the process works- first the customer gets his or her body scanned by standing on a turntable and facing a scanner. Just as a camera is to 2D photograph, a scanner is to a 3D-printed figurine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After being clicked, the image is transmitted to CloneMe’s production unit at Gandhi Nagar, where the statuettes are manufactured. It takes another four to seven days to deliver the product, depending upon the size of the replica. The innovator duo plans to extend the application of the product to medical services along with architectural designs and gifts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3D-printing could have huge applications in the medical area, where surgeons can cut down on time and money by creating 3D replicas of the body parts where they need to do a surgery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All we can hope now is that the day is not too far when we will see kids playing with their own miniature replicas.</span></div>
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SP's: Every alternate day, we are amazed by the ever-increasing applications of 3D printing. Ranging from printing prosthetics for ...

Here’s How Your Fitbit Could be Hacked in Just 10 Seconds

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 10:28 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>With the ever advancing fast-paced technology, we are now more open to the more intimate devices like wearables. They are connected to our body and continuously record our movements, giving us the regular feedback. This demands more focus on the security of wearables and this article telling about a proof-of-concept 10 second Fitbit hack asks the same question.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">IoT devices and your new-age wearables are the gizmos that could be referred to as a hacker’s dream target. Attacking these devices gives them direct control over your body and daily life, and harm you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Along the similar lines, a security researcher has revealed a 10 second Fitbit hack that can allow a hacker to hack your fitness tracker in the blink of an eye. It should be noted that Fitbit fitness tracker is the most popular wearable out there and it sold 11 million devices just in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">During a privacy-focused event Hack.Lu 2015 in Luxembourg, security researcher <a href="https://www.framadrive.org/index.php/s/7Xal6WfggnFxSFY">Axelle Apvrille demonstrated the 10 second Fitbit hack</a>. He said that these wearables are wide open on their Bluetooth ports and the attack is quick to perform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He was able to manipulate the data stored on a tracker and used Fitbit to spread malicious code (in the form of Fitbit data) to a computer. Apvrille was able to infect the Fitbit Flex tracker in 10 seconds from just 15 feet away. If some hacker tries to exploit the vulnerability, he/she can target the computers in gadget’s Bluetooth range.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When a Fitbit connects to a device by data syncing, some malicious software could be used to slip a Trojan on a computer, or used to open a backdoor. “An attacker sends an infected packet to a fitness tracker nearby at Bluetooth distance then the rest of the attack occurs by itself, without any special need for the attacker being near,” Apvrille says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, Fitbit has denied such allegations and pointed out that it’s devices can not be used to serve malware. “We believe that security issues reported today are false, and that Fitbit devices can’t be used to infect users with malware. We will continue to monitor this issue,” Fitbit said in a statement about this 10 second Fitbit hack.</span></div>
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Here’s How Your Fitbit Could be Hacked in Just 10 Seconds

SP's: With the ever advancing fast-paced technology, we are now more open to the more intimate devices like wearables. They are con...

How a Codeless Hack Won $5000 at Facebook Hackathon Without a Single Line of Code

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, tech 12:46 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Writing on the <a href="http://opencompute.org/">Opencompute.org</a>, Andrew tells that they took part in the Open Compute Summit just like that and without any serious plans. They wanted to make something that could be immediately be contributed to Open Compute within 24 hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At the event, Andrew and Derek decided to perform a hack for the newly released Battery Backup Unit (BBU) on the Open Rack V2 design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Dealing with a non-functional and failed BBU unit is a very difficult and time taking tasks. It involves the use of tons of probes, wires, DMM, or oscilloscope to determine the solution. Instead, they decided to use a coupler with the help of a simple ATMEGA microcontroller and LED display to make an intelligent tool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As the display BBU were inaccessible, they wrote some Arduino code to simulate the BBU and some other code that would act as a digital-to-analog converter to fetch signals from the BBU. But, nothing made sense as there wasn’t much room in V2 rack to house a coupler and a microcontroller solution would be too expensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then they decided to take the much needed Open Compute approach and create a simple and minimal solution by removing anything in the data center that didn’t contribute to efficiency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As their codeless hack, they made a debug card that could be easily attached as a component at the back of a BBU as shown in the video below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“This could be used in the future to connect to a microcontroller if a more automated method had to be deployed. Finally, since the BBU relied on a power supply to charge, we included a power header that could be used to connect to the power supply,” they explain further.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After preparing the design, they put it on the breadboard before preparing the final rendering of the product using mechanical CAD software.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This codeless debug tool would enable the techies working in the datacenter BBUs to quickly solve the problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We, at SPRTEch, promote the open source philosophy and believe in sharing the knowledge with our readers. Using the same open source philosophy, Andrew and Derek performed this codeless hack and further plan to release the specifications for their BBU hack to the open source community in the next few weeks.</span></div>
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How a Codeless Hack Won $5000 at Facebook Hackathon Without a Single Line of Code

SP's: Driven by the open source philosophy, two Facebook interns won $5,000 at a Facebook Hackathon. They performed a codeless hack...

This 11-year-old Girl is Selling Super Secure Passwords for $2 Each

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, tech 12:41 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Mira Modi, an 11-year-old girl, has started a business of selling cryptographically secure passwords for $2 each. She generated Diceware passwords, writes them by hands and sends by postal mail.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The unprecedented speed, at which data breaches are taking place and our online passwords are being compromised, is surely alarming. If nothing else, this confirms on</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">e fact that- World needs strong passwords?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Just few weeks ago, an 11-year-old girl Mira Modi started a small business of selling six-word Diceware passwords. She operated her business online via dicewarepasswords.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For those who don’t know, Diceware is a well-known technique to generate passwords. In the process, a normal six-sided dice is used to generate random numbers that are matched with the letters of English alphabet to generate words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now these words are combined into a string of words that doesn’t make sense. Hence, it’s very difficult to crack these passwords. But, surprisingly these passphrases are relatively easy to remember.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Talking to Ars Technica, Mira Modi says, “This whole concept of making your own passwords and being super secure and stuff, I don’t think my friends understand that, but I think it’s cool.”mira-modi-password-passphrase-1“I wanted to make it a public thing because I wasn’t getting very much money,” she said. “I thought it would be fun to have my own website.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mira is the daughter of Julia Angwin, a privacy-focused journalist and writer of her book Dragnet Nation. During the research work for her book, Angwin was employed to generate Diceware passwords. Later, Mira decided to turn it into a small business but her in-person sales were low. So, she decided to take the business online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Talking about the worries of people regarding the security of passwords, she says: “People are worried that I will take your passwords, but in reality I won’t be able to remember them,” she told Ars. “But I don’t store them on any computer anywhere. As far as I know there is only one copy of your password.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She sends the passwords to the customers by the US Postal Mail, which can’t be opened by the government without a search warrant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did you like this story of Mira Modi? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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SP's: Mira Modi, an 11-year-old girl, has started a business of selling cryptographically secure passwords for $2 each. She generat...

29 Toughest Questions Asked in Facebook Job Interviews

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>As the latest employee surveys indicate, Facebook is one of the best places to work for. But, getting a job offer from Mr. Zuckerberg’s company isn’t so easy. Here we are with a compilation of the most interesting Facebook interview questions found on Glassdoor. Take a look at them and tell us your views.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook 11 years ago with an aim to connect the college students. Today, apart from connecting the college students and obviously many others, it’s one the favorite places to work at in the tech industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The interns working at Facebook make $25,000 more than the average US citizen. Also, the employees on Glassdoor voted Facebook as the #1 company to work for. But, getting a job there isn’t an easy job. To accomplish that, you’ll have to answer some tricky Facebook interview questions to prove your caliber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most of the questions are inclined towards the technical side. We have collected some of the toughest questions asked from Glassdoor and many of these are extra-challenging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is a building with 100 floors. You are given 2 identical eggs. How do you use 2 eggs to find the threshold floor, where the egg will definitely break from any floor above floor N, including floor N itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You’re at a casino with two dice, if you roll a 5 you win, and get paid $10. What is your expected payout? If you play until you win (however long that takes) then stop, what is your expected payout? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What options do you have, nefarious or otherwise, to stop people on a wireless network you are also on (but have no admin rights to) from hogging bandwidth by streaming videos? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How many Big Macs does McDonald sell each year in the US?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tell me your plan of action if you saw that photo uploads suddenly dropped by 50%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A Russian gangster kidnaps you. He puts two bullets in consecutive order in an empty six-round revolver, spins it, points it at your head and shoots. *click* You’re still alive. He then asks you, do you want me to spin it again and fire or pull the trigger again. For each option, what is the probability that you’ll be shot? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Should Facebook continue to add features or rely on 3rd party apps?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you were an animal what kind would you be and why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Given access to all the data Facebook collects, what would you do with it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pre-IPO, they asked me to write a paper on the valuation of Facebook. They also asked me what I thought the greatest technological advancement was in the past 20 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you have 100 credit card numbers (and all info) how would you make as much $ possible in 24 hours using only online transactions? (Many follow-up questions of how to get around certain fraud deterrents.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You are trying to rob houses on a street. Each house has some amount of cash. Your goal is to rob houses such that you maximize the total robbed amount. The constraint is once you rob a house you cannot rob a house adjacent to that house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The most difficult question was the 8-hour test, which involved deriving a novel and fairly-involved algorithm, significant CSS/HTML/JS coding, and plenty of opportunities to get something subtly wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">25 racehorses, no stopwatch. 5 tracks. Figure out the top three fastest horses in the fewest number of races.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What is the process you would go about in spotting a fake profile?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You’re about to get on a plane to Seattle. You want to know if you should bring an umbrella. You call 3 random friends of yours who live there and ask each independently if it’s raining. Each of your friends has a 2/3 chance of telling you the truth and a 1/3 chance of messing with you by lying. All 3 friends tell you that ‘Yes’ it is raining. What is the probability that it’s actually raining in Seattle?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did you find these Facebook interview questions difficult? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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10 Interesting Facts About The Internet You Really Need To Know

Shivam Patsariya 0 tech, WebNdSocial 12:36 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Most of us can not imagine life without access to the internet for reasons ranging from social networking to doing projects and collecting information. But, not all of us know about these interesting facts about the internet and its usage.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">From surfing to taking help from the internet for doing projects and collecting information, today we find it difficult to imagine our life without the internet. But not many of us know these interesting yet important facts about the internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, let’s have a quick look at it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">1. Approximately 3.2 billion people use the internet. Out of this, 1.7 billion of internet users are Asians. In fact, it is estimated that approximately 200 billion emails and 3 billion Google search would have to wait if the internet goes down for a day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2. China has treatment camps for internet addicts. 200 million Internet users in China are between the ages of 15 and 35. Hence, it is most like that they lose self-control. Tao Ran, director of the country’s first Internet addiction treatment clinic under a military hospital in Beijing said that 40% of those addicted to the Internet suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3. 30,000 websites are hacked every day. Highly effective computer software programs are used by cybercriminals to automatically detect vulnerable websites which can be hacked easily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">4. First webcam was created at the University Of Cambridge to monitor the Trojan coffee pot. A live 128×128 grayscale picture of the state of the coffee pot was provided as the video feed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">5. ” Gangnam Style ” by PSY is still the most viewed videos of all time with more than 2,450,000,000 views.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">6. Internet sends approximately 204 million emails per minute and 70% of all the mails sent are spam. 2 billion electrons are required to produce a single email.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">7. The internet requires 50 Million horsepower to keep running in the current state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In 2005, broadband internet had a maximum speed of 2 Megabits per second. Today, 100Mbps download speeds are available in many parts of the country. But experts warn that science has reached its limit and fiber optics can take no more data.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">8. First tweet was done on 21st March, 2006 by Jack Dorsey and the first YouTube video to be uploaded was “Meet At Zoo” at 8:27 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, 2005 by Jawed Karim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">9. Approximately 9 Million adults in Britain and one-third of Italians have never used the internet. Imagine that! While there are treatment camps for internet addicts in China, a vast population of people has never used it till date.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">10. The majority of internet traffic is not generated by humans, but by bots and malware. According to a recent study conducted by Incapsula, 61.5% or nearly two-thirds of all the website traffic is caused by Internet bots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Stay tuned for more of such interesting facts. Tell us your opinion in the comments below.</span></div>
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10 Interesting Facts About The Internet You Really Need To Know

SP's: Most of us can not imagine life without access to the internet for reasons ranging from social networking to doing projects a...