Chicago: City of Big Data is an exhibition being presented by the Chicago Architecture Foundation from now until the end of the year. The title City of Big Data is a play on the moniker bestowed on Chicago by Carl Sandburg, "City of Big Shoulders." The exhibition focuses on how the City of Chicago uses … Continue reading City of Big Data promotes data benefits, ignores privacy concerns
Category: Online Security and Privacy
They used to burn books. Now they throttle bandwidth. I remember when the entire Internet used to be slow. Not just parts. Or at least it felt slow as its bits and bytes and packets tried to squeeze through a loudly beeping 2400 baud modem. When I got my first 56K modem it seemed lightning fast. I was … Continue reading What would the Internet be like without net neutrality?
Do you use the Internet? Congratulations, your data has been vulnerable for about 2 years and is even more vulnerable now that the Heartbleed bug has been revealled publicly. Until web sites patch this OpenSSL vulnerability that little lock and https that you've been taught will keep your data safe as it travels across the … Continue reading What is the Heartbleed bug, and what should you do about it?
Despite being a blogger and being active on social media I still consider myself to be a private person. A common definition of privacy is "the right to be left alone" as written in an article by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis in the Harvard Law Review. That's still a pretty vague definition, which is … Continue reading Even on the Internet some people prefer privacy
SplashData has released their annual list of the "worst passwords" based on which passwords appeared most frequently in password files obtained by hackers. As an information security specialists these lists always make me feel happy about my job security but also despondent about how security awareness efforts still aren't changing the behaviors of many computer … Continue reading 25 most used passwords of 2013: Have people lost faith in Jesus?
Kim Z. Dale 