Monday Final

Most of us have become very jaded about announcements about bugs and vulnerability issues with computers.

Now we get one more to shrug our shoulders  over...LOL

Is the battery in your smartphone being used to track your online activities?

 It might seem unlikely, but it's not quite as farfetched as you might first think.

  This is not a case of malware or hacking, but a built-in component of the HTML5 specification.

 Originally designed to help reduce power consumption, the Battery Status API makes it possible for websites and apps to monitor the battery level of laptops, tablets, and phones.

 A paper published by a team of security researchers suggests that this represents a huge privacy risk. 

Using little more than the amount of power remaining in your battery, it is possible for people to be identified and tracked online. 

As reported by The Guardian, a paper entitled The Leaking Battery by Belgian and French privacy and security experts say that the API can be used in device fingerprinting.

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Macs have typically been heralded as the more secure of the two main operating systems. But according to researchers, at the firmware level, that's not necessarily true.

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 Just for fun...not really secure...but fun...

Encrypt/Decrypt any message to/from binary, base64, morse code, roman numbers, hexademical and more.

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 Cuteness bomb went off. 3 casualties.

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 Tubing on the ocean

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  Life is getting tougher for renters, as rent hikes outpace wage gains - “Rents are insanely unaffordable on a historical basis in the United States right now”

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 And I was worried they would hate each other.

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