Looking forward to tonight’s presentations…

La métropole française est la seule à être classée dans le top 10 pour neuf familles de critères sur dix.

Source: Paris est la quatrième ville la plus attractive au monde

Passwords were stored using unsalted MD5 hashing. This algorithm is so insecure it took us two hours to crack and convert over 96% of them to visible passwords, a sizeable increase from prior mega breaches made possible because we have significantly invested in our password cracking capabilities for the benefit of our users. Here are the top 50…

LeakedSource Analysis of Last.fm Hack

Are you using unique passwords yet? If not you should be.

Across a large enough population of really talented and experienced individuals emerged ten reasons for each position. You can argue the viability of certain ones, but all-in-all it’s an interesting outcome given the hype about companies moving to public cloud and CIOs all claiming they’re looking to exit the data center business.

A Reality Check on “Everyone’s Moving Everything To The Cloud”

This is well worth 15 minutes of your time. I hear similar things every day as I wander from client to client. However, it’s good that JP has taken the time to put them on paper.

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Shaper | Origin

Slightly expensive but I’d love one of these. Very clever concept.

The scale of changes that will be brought by the move of the center of internet usage to Asia will be massive.

After reading this report I can only see the mountains of work in front of us to restructure what we have to support these changes.

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/D0N5V1PjTsIasR

KPCB’s Mary Meeker presents the 2016 Internet Trends report, covering today’s Internet growth.

2016 Internet Trends Report — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

Security engineers are working on technologies that can mitigate much of this risk, but many solutions won’t be deployed without government involvement. This is not something that the market can solve. Like data privacy, the risks and solutions are too technical for most people and organizations to understand; companies are motivated to hide the insecurity of their own systems from their customers, their users, and the public; the interconnections can make it impossible to connect data breaches with resultant harms; and the interests of the companies often don’t match the interests of the people.

The Internet of Things Will Turn Large-Scale Hacks into Real World Disasters

By the time that we have a certification model for IoT its probably going to be too late. This is probably the biggest risk to the development of the industry over the medium term.

Each new technology allows a new fashion, in this case the fashion for types of holiday photos.

There is a step change with faster shutter speeds, with colour, with hand held cameras and finally digital.

How vacation photos have changed over the last 130 years

The next change is IoT photos. Cameras that take the same photo every day at the same time. Are you ready for the fashion for the accidental photo?

Today business takes photos of equipment at key moments. The car at the beginning and the end of the rental. The next step for manufacturing is the photo of each step in assembly.