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Reports of Bitcoin’s Criminal Potential Have Been Exaggerated by CNN Fortune
Yesterday, CNN Fortune published an article by Cyrus Sanati about Bitcoin entitled “Bitcoin looks primed for money laundering.” In what could be best described as an odd screed against Bitcoin and its potential financial impact on the world, it delves into places that paint the cryptocurrency as a boogeyman while at the same time reporting ...
Salinas Police Department Uses ShareFile to Make Reports Smarter, Easier, and More Secure
When we look at technology that affects governments we generally think of the US federal government—a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy that crosses state lines and needs to communicate with itself constantly—but often we forget that small cities and even police departments are no less in need of upgrades. So when I went to speak with the ...
How a Robot That Plays Angry Birds Can Aid Development and Quality Assurance
This story starts in an interesting place: the quest to produce a robot that plays Angry Birds; but it ends in a place very familiar with anyone who has ever worked in product testing: a robot that does the tedious task of pressing every button combination on a physical UI. Recently, I spoke with Jason ...
Digital Currency Outfit Bitcoin-Central Makes Milestone Towards Becoming Like a Bank
Contrary to reporting this week (BBC), Bitcoin-Central did not gain the ability to act like an actual bank—but what they’ve gained is no less fundamental a milestone for a Bitcoin outfit. By partnering with Aqoba, which is a payment services provider capable of dealing with insured accounts, Bitcoin-Central has gained the ability to offer Euro-based ...
DevOps Executive Spotlight: Icenium’s Doug Seven, Executive VP of Telerik
Not too long ago, DevOpsANGLE spent a moment to examine Icenium from Telerik—a cloud-to-developer environment that makes a great tool for any mobile development shop to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to producing and maintaining mobile apps—and now it’s our great pleasure to speak with the man behind the curtains. Doug Seven ...
Google Celebrates Ada Lovelace With a Beautiful Doodle
If you missed it, Google has celebrated the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace with a beautiful Google doodle. She is often referred to the first programmer and is chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. As an English mathematician who worked at the advent of the ...
Appthority Knows What Business is Thinking About App Security
Mobile development right now is fundamentally fragmented between a multitude of devices and a powerful ecology of vendors and platforms—on the cultural side, the rise of BYOD and personal connectivity has been a constant thorn in the side of corporate IT. Developers have found themselves in an odd place during this tug-of-war between employees and ...
25 GPU System Unveiled at Passwords^12 Conference Eats Password Hashes for Breakfast
At the Passwords^12 Conference in Oslo, Norway researcher Jeremi Gosney presented an extremely powerful password cracking rig that wields a spectacularly heavy 25 GPUs in order to quickly chew through cryptographic hashes and extract the passwords that they hide. The slides are available online [PDF] and in his demo he showed how the rig could ...
Anonymous Shows Us Again: People Still Suck at Choosing Passwords in 2012
Back when I worked as a programmer and sysadmin for a nonprofit, myself and other admins would sometimes make new login credentials for members and often the first password was something like “changeme,” and connected to a rule that forced the user to change their password upon sign in. In fact, I had a large ...
AppDirect Launches Incubator Program for Enterprising Developers
AppDirect, a leading cloud service marketplace company, is launching the AppDirect Developer Incubator Program, a unique 3 year program designed to give developers a risk-free way to pursue their dreams and make the jump from developer to entrepreneur. The unique and innovation incubator program is aimed at both entry-level and seasoned engineers, and will both ...