Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That’s a Good Thing Here’s one of the several reason why you cannot rely on proprietary software: you can’t never be sure your systems don’t have a backdoor. Note: the same holds for its main competitor Juniper.
Category: Ethics
Ethics
A masterpiece
SQLIte new Code Of Conduct is a masterpiece.
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Ethics, Mood
«L’auto elettrica? Inquina anche più del diesel»
Una ricerca americana certifica che la CO2 complessiva prodotta da questi veicoli è inferiore a quelli a gasolio solo nei pochi Paesi dove l’elettricità proviene da fonti rinnovabili Che differenza questo articolo de l’Avvenire: «L’auto elettrica? Inquina anche più del diesel» contro articoli più raffazzonati come questo su blitzquotidiano.it. Da notare che lo studio statunitense…
Ethics, Web
Firefox bloccherà tutti gli script che tracciano gli utenti nel Web
Ed è un’ottima notizia, non solo per questioni di riservatezza ma anche perché «Uno studio di Ghostery dimostra che il 55,4% del tempo necessario a caricare un normale sito web viene passato a caricare tracker di terze parti. Per gli utenti che si trovano a usare reti lente, l’effetto può essere anche peggiore». Non avrei…
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It was vital to our lives, yet remained quiet and unobtrusive
Sorgente: How the shared family computer protected us from our worst selves – The Verge
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Those are the news worth reading! I’m trying Firefox Advance at once!
Mozilla Debuts Firefox Extension that Recommends Content Based on Your Browsing Activity (venturebeat.com) 27
Mozilla on Tuesday began testing a Firefox extension that shows you its best guesses for what you want to see on the web. From a report: The Advance web extension is available for anyone from today and can analyze content on current active web pages to recommend related tidbits you may want to “read next” from other websites. It will also surface recommendations based on your recent browsing history in a “for you” section. With the extension installed, you just browse the web as you normally would and the little sidebar will show things that are relevant to what you’ve been looking at. The extension is powered by Laserlike, a VC-funded, machine learning-powered “interest search engine” that delivers personalized content. As such, Laserlike will receive users’ browsing history — something Mozilla wants people to understand before they install the extension. But the company has also built in some tools to boost control and data transparency.
Ethics
Happily surprised
Well, people AND companies do changes over time. What I’m writing today was a total impossibility twenty years ago: I’m going to thanks Microsoft for releasing information under a liberal license: Microsoft Releases 125 Million Building Footprints In the US To the OpenStreetMap Community – Slashdot So today I can say: many kudos, Microsoft!
Ethics, Proprietary software
The only meaningful answer
The only meaningful answer to this: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub is this: Alternatives to GitHub for all platforms with Open Source License That is,GitLab
Ethics, Proprietary hardware, Smartphones
Haloa, Huawei
Huawei Will No Longer Allow Bootloader Unlocking On Its Android Handsets – Slashdot So I have only one word to say to Huawei: Addio, adieu As long as you will keep your hardware closed I will never buy your products and I will actively ask people to avoid it.