The Drone Police

Drones are prominently in the news this week.  The U.S. Department of Defense has given military bases new guidelines allowing them to shoot down consumer drones trespassing on (above) military…

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Passports

                        A passport is a critical travel document without which you are literally grounded. We might nowadays associate passports…

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Textalyzer

Perhaps you can relate: driving to work this morning on the highway a car in the lane next to me started to gradually slow down and then it was swerving…

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Invisible Code

Earlier this month, NSA employee Ms. Reality Winner was found distributing a printed copy of sensitive information to the publication Intercept.  Although the NSA did not verify the exact means…

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More Things, More Trouble

The Internet of things (IoT) is (Wiki definition) the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as “connected devices” and “smart devices”), buildings, and other items—embedded with electronics, software,…

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Phone Affairs

I cannot live without my smart phone.  Take my car.  My cat (sorry Fluffy).  Just not the phone.  I use it for email both work and personal.  It houses not…

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