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m.alessandrini writes:
A worker at a Volkswagen factory in Germany has died, after a robot grabbed him and crushed him against a metal plate.
This it perhaps the first severe accident of this kind in a western factory, and is sparkling debate about who is responsible for the accident, the man who was servicing the robot beyond its protection cage, or the robot's hardware/software developers who didn't put enough safety checks. Will this distinction be more and more important in the future, when robots will be more widespread?
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m.alessandrini writes:
In response to a ban of food imported from the European Union, an Italian grocery in Russia hired an ad agency to create a billboard with a camera and facial recognition software, that's able to change to a different ad when it recognizes the uniform of Russian cops. Link: http://gizmodo.com/this-ad-for...
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m.alessandrini writes:
Children grow up, and inevitably they will start using internet and social networks, both for educational and recreational purposes. And it won't take long to them to learn to be autonomous, especially with all the smartphones and tablets around and your limited time.
Unlike the years of my youth, when internet started to enter our lives gradually, now I'm afraid of the amount of inappropriate contents a child can be exposed to unprepared: porn, scammers, cyberbullies or worse, are just a click away.
For Windows many solutions claim to exist, usually in form of massive antivirus suites. What about GNU/Linux? Or Android? Several solutions rely on setting up a proxy with a whitelist of sites, or similar, but I'm afraid this approach can make internet unusable, or otherwise be easy to bypass. Have you any experiences or suggestions? Do you think software solutions are only a part of the solution, provided children can learn hacking tricks better than us, and if so, what other "human" techniques are most effective?
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m.alessandrini writes:
I've been using Debian for a life, and I'm not a novice at all; I install system updates almost daily, I avoid risky behaviors on Internet, and like all linux users I always felt safe. Yesterday my webcam suddenly turned on, and turned off after several minutes. I'm pretty sure it was nothing serious, but I started thinking about malware... At work I use noscript and other tools, but at home I have a more relaxed browser to be used by other family members too. Here I'm not talking about rootkits or privilege escalation (I trust Debian), I think more of normal user compromission. For example, these days many malwares come from malicious scripts in sites, even in advertising banners inside trusted sites, and this is more "cross-platform" than normal viruses. So, what about non-root user malwares? How much could this be real? And how can you diagnose it? Be assured that I will NOT install anti-virus programs or similar on my linux.
