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Copying Your Fingerprint From Photos

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So it’s now 2015, the year of the hover board, self lacing shoes and holograms – according to Back to the Future at least. As technology continues its unrelenting march to improving, streamlining and hugely benefiting our lives, is it also time to admit we have no control over the abilities of new technology? Almost everything to we thought sacred, personal and indefinable, can be found or created by technology – including our fingerprints.

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Can We Give Sony A Break Please?

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Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few weeks you can’t have escaped the furrow that’s followed Sony Pictures computer system security being compromised on a massive scale. What started as a bit of tech news has exploded into mainstream news and is set to cause a media storm for weeks or months to come. Its this media storm of news and blogs that needs to stop.

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Using Flappy Birds to Steal Your Nudes – A Permissions Issue

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As more and more info over the leaked celebrity ‘nudes’ comes to light it gets worse. From security issues at Apple, to questions asked about all cloud storage its all starting to be written. As yet no competitor has used this to their advantage, but it goes without saying they have all combed their own systems to make sure it couldn’t happen to them. The fact of the matter is however that it could very easily. For Android this could happen more easily and is without doubt happening, and all undetected.

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Google And Dropbox Backed Simply Secure Aims To Make Security Easier

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Google and Dropbox have teamed up with the Open Technology Fund to back a new organization called Simply Secure which is aiming to make your security easier. With all the unease over privacy and security online and through our financial streams it’s easy to see why companies are taking it far more seriously.

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