It’s hard for me to believe this is my final issue of The Stute. I was a member of The Stute before I was a student at Stevens; I first explored campus and Hoboken as part of The Stute’s Freshman Weekend.
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Fortunately, no one emailed me passwords after reading my column two weeks back. Unfortunately, organizations that hold huge amounts of user information are doing a bad job securing it.
In my last column I said I’d talk more about passwords, but unfortunately I have to postpone that discussion in the interest of covering current events.
Last week, CNBC ran a piece on how to choose secure passwords. To supplement their article, they included a tool to test how strong your password is.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion had its 10th birthday over spring break. Bethesda Game Studios’ followup to their 2002 Morrowind introduced voiced characters and brought greater balance between combat styles (as well as removing spears, never to be seen again).
Until 2000, restrictions were placed on cryptographic products developed in the US. Throughout the Cold War, encryption technology (techniques, equipment, and software) was classified as “Materials and Miscellaneous Articles” on the United States Munitions List.
You might think you’re safe from tracking by the likes of Google and Facebook if you don’t have an account with these companies, but new advances in technology are making it impossible to escape their reach.
Last March, China’s National People’s Congress wrote a draft for an anti-terrorism bill that required companies to implement encryption backdoors. A spokeswoman from the Chinese Foreign Ministry insisted that the bill was “a requirement for the government in combating terrorism.”
In December, Forbes began requiring readers with ad-blocking extensions to disable them in order to view pages. Visitors were greeted with a message: “Thanks for coming to Forbes.