| 9 baby monitors wide open to hacks that expose users' most private moments The security of Internet-connected baby monitors got a failing grade from researchers who found critical vulnerabilities in all nine of the models they reviewed. The weaknesses make it possible for hackers half a world away to perform a host of nefarious actions. They include monitoring live video feeds, changing camera settings, harvesting video clips stored online, and making an unlimited number of additions to the list of users who are authorized to remotely view and control a monitor.
The second you connect a device in your house to the Internet you should assume hackers can easily control it. So the rule of thumb is just don’t hook anything to the Internet that might cause a problem. If you don’t want your lawnmower coming to life and chasing the dog around the yard, probably best to not buy an internet connected one. And don’t trust baby product vendors with computer security. Intel invests $50 million in quantum computing effort Quantum computing promises multiple breakthrough and the possibility of new applications. Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which can exist in multiple states and operate in parallel. Quantum computers are expected to replace the ones powered by transistors and binary digits today.
I have literally spent days reading all of the available material about quantum computing in an effort to understand how it could possibly work. The entire concept still baffles me. Not the theory, I understand what they are trying to do. But nowhere do they explain how they will set the electrons to the in-between state in the first place. And they can’t actually measure them in that state at this point. And, of course, the available quantum computers on the market haven’t proven to be any faster than a traditional computer. So we still can’t prove that quantum computers actually exist. Comic Sans Adblock Detector If you visit http://howtogeek.com with Adblock enabled now, it will switch the font to Comic Sans (desktop only)
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