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The Informatica blog - Authored by Claudiu Popa
  • Like a few other traditions, Easter has its followers and they're well represented by children whose innate desire to seek and find things is matched by the chocolate goodies hidden for their pleasure.
     
    But Easter Eggs take on a different meaning when it comes to software applications. They're fun little surprises tucked away in undocumented code and waiting for someone to trigger their launch sequence. For instance, the Google rotation roll that ensues once you type in "do a barrel roll" or any number of other hidden tricks....
  • No bullshit.That's what you should say next time you see a bold statement on the side of a truck, or tucked away in a sales agreement.

    "Your data is 100% secure" boasted the back of a shredding truck I recently saw on the road. "Your privacy is guaranteed" promised a paper-based survey form immediately after requesting all but my passport number.

    We see blatant exaggerations and plain misrepresentations all the time. I bet you can think of at least three right now. For instance: the names of other patients on a clinic's computer screen, an office recycling bin's interesting contents, the saved photocopies of the device's previous user....

Are privacy and security matters of life and death?Security assessments are always interesting. I know, I do them all the time. You can never guess what you'll find when you're investigating a breach a...
Do cyberbullying victims like Amanda Todd deserve the treatment of people like Kody Maxson?More shocking than the fact that yet another teenager has opted to take her own life as a direct result of (cyber)bullying is the public response to t...
Why not lie to protect your identity?I’m always impressed at the low-tech nature of today’s most brazen hacking attacks and abuses of identity. It’s inevitable that so...
surveillance devices potentially used by the CBSAThe Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) has installed equipment designed to record video and audio in Canadian airports (and possibly other ports o...
LinkedINSecurity Password Breach could be good for businessLinkedIn is "unable to confirm <this week's> breach" involving millions of user passwords but agrees that passwords belonging to "some" of their...
Security and Privacy Blog: Statue of Alan Turing with Enigma MachineWhat? You didn't know? Well now you do. Alan Turing had/was/exhibited one of the greatest minds in computer science. To him we owe not just artificial...