https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/20/wtf-is-gdpr/ GDPR is a significant piece of legislation whose full impact will clearly take some time to shake out. A major point of note right off the bat is that GDPR does not merely apply to EU businesses; any entities processing the personal data of EU citizens need to comply. The extra-territorial scope of GDPR →
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-87-million-cambridge-analytica-data-2018-4 “Most” of Facebook’s 2 billion users may have had their personal data skimmed from the site by “malicious actors,” the company said in a blog post by Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer. →
https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software On February 3, is the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the term “open source software“. This article tells the story how this term started to replace term “free software”. →
https://techcrunch.com/gallery/here-are-the-best-gags-of-april-fools-day-2018/ →
This posting is here to collect security alert news in April 2018. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. →
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/resources/standards/ieee-standard-to-rate-the-trustworthiness-of-news-sites Can a new IEEE standard help to fight “fake news”? Reputable news outlets are looking for ways to stem the spread of false and misleading articles. The IEEE Standards Association is trying to help readers detect such content with its new IEEE P7011 Standard for the Process of Identifying and Rating the Trustworthiness of →
https://www.amihotechnology.com/lorawan-cellular-nb-iot-power-consumption-comparison/ The intent of this post is not to say which technology is better or worse. But, rather to show how Cellular IoT and LoRaWAN complement each other. Battery lifetime is by far one of the most important considerations for LPWAN applications because often it is very expensive to replace batteries physically. It will ruin →
https://www.boredpanda.com/satirical-illustrations-gerhard-haderer/ →
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/its-not-just-facebook-that-knows-a-horrifying-amount-of-stuff-about-you/ It’s Not Just Facebook That Knows A Horrifying Amount Of Stuff About You. Following the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, many people are expressing concern about Facebook and how much it knows about them. “If the product is free, you are the product. If they’re making money, they probably have a lot of your data →
Old Phoenix Contact terminals with gas tube based surge protection. →