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Sunday Paper - Facial Recognition, Python, Happiness, Apple Software Quality, iCloud

Posted on 27th October 2019
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The New York times and leaders within the democratic party agree that facial recognition technology is dangerous to civil liberties and must be banned. The essential and unavoidable risks of deploying these tools are becoming apparent. A majority of Americans have functionally been put in a perpetual police lineup simply for getting a driver’s license: Their D.M.V. images are turned into faceprints for government tracking with few limits. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are using facial recognition technology to scan…

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Sunday Paper - Cloud Misconfiguration, The Standard Two Kitchen House

Posted on 1st September 2019
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It seems that most cloud security lapses are due to misconfigurations. The biggest problem is that when deploying cloud environments, many pieces need to be configured, including the routing and firewall rules that grant access to the servers being deployed, the servers themselves, and the application-level firewalls and access rules within those servers. With so many components, and with effectively non-existent security in most default configurations, it is easy to see why one or more components may be deployed in…

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Sunday Paper - Cybersecurity, Writing, Molecular Coffee, NJ Transit, Fish Tube, Stop Being Positive

Posted on 25th August 2019
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Jim Grey on how he can write a new blog post almost every day. I write about whatever I want — it’s a personal blog after all. Anything is subject fodder. I write about photography and cameras a lot because it’s a lifelong interest and I’ve found my largest, most engaged audience there. Yes, I pander shamelessly to you film photographers!Jim Grey Some people just want all the profit for themselves. Lab engineered coffee means nothing good for the environment…

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