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5 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark
Online privacy isn’t dead. But the tech giants make it a pain in the butt to achieve. With these incremental tweaks to the services we use, we can throw sand in the gears of the surveillance machine and opt out of the ways tech companies attempt to...
20 Jul 2025 3 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury
The question is valid for most governments. I published a LinkedIn article and a video in 2023, which raised questions on the adoption of biometrics authentication technology by technology corporations and governments. The questions are still val...
20 Jun 2024 4 minute read 11 comments Debesh Choudhury
While using biometrics recognition can be convenient, but biometrics recognition is inherently probabilistic and not deterministic. The probabilistic trait of biometrics recognition makes it unreliable. Besides, biometrics has many other challenges...
2 May 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury
What is a password? A password is a string of keyboard characters used to verify a user's identity during the authentication process in a computational system online or offline. A password is typically used with a username and is designed to be k...
25 Jan 2024 2 minute read 11 comments Debesh Choudhury
What is biometrics? Biometrics involves the utilization of distinct physiological or behavioral traits of humans to authenticate or identify individuals. However, biometrics authentication technology is inherently probabilistic, and unreliable,...
9 Oct 2023 1 minute read 18 comments Debesh Choudhury
Nowadays, there is a craze for killing passwords. If you regularly follow cybersecurity trends, you might have noticed the word "password-less." Password-less means your account is always logged in using credentials already saved on a device, such as...
29 Sep 2023 3 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark
Are you still using Windows operating systems and products? Well, you're an idiot, IMO. It's 2023 and time to move to something better (id est, a UNIX-based or compatible system, such as GNU/Linux or Mac OS X). Having played around a bit with KeePass...
15 Sep 2023 8 minute read 0 comments busyjordy
So, it's been a year of travelling for me. Today you find me in Bali, where the sun is shining, the waves are crashing, and the internet is... well, less than perfect. And, as luck would have it, I just witnessed something that prompted me to write t...
11 Aug 2023 1 minute read 0 comments CodyMac50
It's always terrible reading about people who have been scammed, or phished, or "hoodwinked" or their money held ransom by a thief. A while back I got an email telling me that google had a data breach, and my password for several accounts was publish...
8 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Citizen0
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the traditional password has long been the first line of defense for our online accounts. However, with Google's recent announcement of integrating passkeys into their accounts, the era of passwords may be c...
