Author Archive | Daniela Weiss-Bronstein

Diaspora* Co-Founder Zhitomirskiy Dead At 22

By on November 16, 2011 in Culture, Social Media, Software, Web Applications
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Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year old co-founder of Diaspora*, died over the weekend. Police aren’t yet releasing details, pending the medical examiner’s investigation, but friends and family say it looks like he committed suicide. There is already conjecture about whether the stresses of creating Diaspora* in the public eye contributed to his death. Zhitomirskiy, Maxwell Salzburg, […]

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Your Face Is The Problem

By on November 14, 2011 in Hardware
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Any good (fictional) spy uses biometrics as authentication – Bond used fake fingerprints, Charlie’s Angels copied someone’s retina scan, and Chuck’s intersect has facial recognition technology. Yet as companies have implemented biometric-based authentications, it’s been laughably easy to beat. Fingerprint locking technology was once thought to be the gold standard in security. Fingerprint sensors popped […]

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