In the Huffington post article it gives you some ways to help give you a little more privacy while browsing the internet. For example, it tell you to use DuckDuckGo instead of google, Use the TOR web browser a instead of the normally used ones like Chrome, FireFox ect. However no matter what measures we take to stay private the internet or anything that deals with the world wide web can never really be private. Take Facebook for example, you can post whatever you want and send messages to whoever you want "privately". However, what you put up and what you send to people just like everything else is saved in whatever data base Facebook has. The same thing can be said for twitter, Instagram, Snap-chat, and dating sites. Hackers play on this belief that things sent through these sites privately will in return remain private. When there is no real sign telling you that is will actually. I know that in the 4th amendment gives us a right to privacy but this type of information can be seized no matter what kind of expectation of privacy you thought you had. (Sorry 4th Amendment)
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Adventure Capitalist: Everyone Can Make That Money (Not Really)
This app that I am sorrowfully addicted to is all about business building and simple money making. Adventure Capitalist is comes from the developers of Kongregate which is also a computer games website. The app so far has been a success with 1,000,000-5,000,000 downloads sense it's release. The app allows you to virtually become a filthy rich business man without all the extra work. You start off with a simple lemonade stand the more you click the more you money you make in seconds you will have made enough to hire a manager to keep from having from clicking and then the endless flow of virtual cash will flow.
this app was last updated on September 4 of this year. The app's latest update allows you to take your businesses to space and it fixed some reported bugs. The app itself has a 4.5 star rating with 434,861 review written by various players from various different devices. The downloading size varies with different devices and the content rating has been set to E for everyone. You can also make in-app purchases with prices ranging from $1.99-$99.99 per item purchased.
I highly recommend this app for the easily bored need some time to kill if you wanna check out more games and mobile apps made by the developers click on the link up top
Thursday, September 3, 2015
It's Never Private
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/technology/personaltech/hacking-victims-deserve-empathy-not-ridicule.html?ref=technology
Many times people feel the need to find an online escape. Rather it be an escape from a marriage, simple relationship, family, or life in general people use the Internet or other forms of technology to create that escape. However, many people who look to the Internet to create that escape, rarely think about the consequences until it slaps them across the face. This article relates to those who have dealt and still are dealing with the consequences of their actions. Many people have heard about the Ashley Madison website that helps married couples plan and commit extramarital activities with the ideal that everything done through the site is strictly private. Well this year in July the site had a data breach (it was hacked). this data breach could expose over 30 million people. In this article it discusses the impacted this breach has on it's victims saying that those exposed deserve empathy and not ridicule.
"But the victims of the Ashley Madison hacking deserve our sympathy and aid because, with slightly different luck, you or I could just as easily find ourselves in a similarly sorry situation"
-Farhad Manjoo
Many people have fallen into a deep despair after the breach, not because they cant really use the site like they want to but because the idea of being exposed for their infidelity possesses a very dangerous threat for most. Many have confided in the Internet security expert Troy Hunt who runs the Internet site called Have I Been Pwnd? This site allows for people to find out if their data has been breached. Many people who have been effected by this have way more to deal with than just having to change their password. The threat has become so great that they have even contemplated suicide
"I imagine my grown kids finding out, my neighbors, friends, co-workers, and sometimes I just want to end it all before facing something like that.”
-unknown victim
While this article speaks many useful truth all It still serves as a warning to many that no matter how safe or private a site may perceive itself to be, nothing when it comes to the Internet is ever private. This is not to say that you can never really use the Internet as a way to create your escape it's just that many need to ask themselves if they are really willing to deal with the possible consequences that comes with your escape.
Many times people feel the need to find an online escape. Rather it be an escape from a marriage, simple relationship, family, or life in general people use the Internet or other forms of technology to create that escape. However, many people who look to the Internet to create that escape, rarely think about the consequences until it slaps them across the face. This article relates to those who have dealt and still are dealing with the consequences of their actions. Many people have heard about the Ashley Madison website that helps married couples plan and commit extramarital activities with the ideal that everything done through the site is strictly private. Well this year in July the site had a data breach (it was hacked). this data breach could expose over 30 million people. In this article it discusses the impacted this breach has on it's victims saying that those exposed deserve empathy and not ridicule.
"But the victims of the Ashley Madison hacking deserve our sympathy and aid because, with slightly different luck, you or I could just as easily find ourselves in a similarly sorry situation"
-Farhad Manjoo
Many people have fallen into a deep despair after the breach, not because they cant really use the site like they want to but because the idea of being exposed for their infidelity possesses a very dangerous threat for most. Many have confided in the Internet security expert Troy Hunt who runs the Internet site called Have I Been Pwnd? This site allows for people to find out if their data has been breached. Many people who have been effected by this have way more to deal with than just having to change their password. The threat has become so great that they have even contemplated suicide
"I imagine my grown kids finding out, my neighbors, friends, co-workers, and sometimes I just want to end it all before facing something like that.”
-unknown victim
While this article speaks many useful truth all It still serves as a warning to many that no matter how safe or private a site may perceive itself to be, nothing when it comes to the Internet is ever private. This is not to say that you can never really use the Internet as a way to create your escape it's just that many need to ask themselves if they are really willing to deal with the possible consequences that comes with your escape.
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