“Natural body identification” could one day replace passwords and other modern methods of identification, claims PayPal developer chief
Source: PayPal wants to implant passwords in your stomach and your brain – Telegraph
Category Archives: Computer
Failed Apple Rootpipe Fix Leaves Backdoor On All Macs, Researchers Claim – Forbes
Apple fails to fix a backdoor known as Rootpipe affecting all Macs, researchers claim. It had already been criticised for leaving anyone below Mac OS X Yosemite open to Rootpipe exploits, but will now have to re-engineer its patch if it wants to defend users from attacks.
Source: Failed Apple Rootpipe Fix Leaves Backdoor On All Macs, Researchers Claim – Forbes
Prosecutors suspect man hacked lottery computers to score winning ticket | Ars Technica
Former security director may have tampered with number generator to win $14.3M.
Source: Prosecutors suspect man hacked lottery computers to score winning ticket | Ars Technica
The First Net Neutrality Complaints Are Coming – NationalJournal.com
At least one Internet backbone company is planning to complain to the FCC over network congestion.
Source: The First Net Neutrality Complaints Are Coming – NationalJournal.com
YouTube tips we bet you didn’t know – CNET
Want a faster way to find the content you’re seeking in a YouTube video? Or maybe you just need a shortcut to the mute option? You’ll wish you knew these shortcuts all along.
This Easy Cheese 3D Printer Offers Sweet, Golden Disruption | TechCrunch
We toss the word “disruption” around far too frivolously here but I think we’ve finally found a product that deserves to be called amazing, magical, game-changing, and –…
Source: This Easy Cheese 3D Printer Offers Sweet, Golden Disruption | TechCrunch
This router hack is injecting ads and porn into random websites | The Verge
NSA-proof passwords – Boing Boing
The Intercept’s Micah Lee explains how to use Diceware’s to generate a passphrase that can survive the NSA’s trillion-guess-per-second cracking attempts — but which can still be easily memorized.
Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality | Ars Technica
Windows 10 hardware must support Secure Boot and won’t have to let you turn it off.
Source: Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality | Ars Technica
Animated Avatar App MyIdol Forces You To Confront Deeply Sublimated Fantasies | TechCrunch
“The readers lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one,” said Westeros visionary Jojen Reed. Reed, however, did not have a smartphone, which meant he…
Source: Animated Avatar App MyIdol Forces You To Confront Deeply Sublimated Fantasies | TechCrunch