Thursday, February 17, 2011

Lost iPhone? Lost Passwords!


iPhone Security Breach Gives Hackers Access To Your Private Data. Researchers in Germany have deduced a method to retrieve, without your authorization, all of your iPhone’s secrets and passwords. And it only takes six minutes. Oh dear.
The attack, which requires physical access to the iPhone (i.e. the attack cannot be done remotely), reveals user passwords and other sensitive information. Encryption by itself does not provide protection; if your iPhone is lost.
What should you do if you lose your iPhone? Your best bet is to change any and all passwords that may have been used on the device

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

POPULAR CULTURE


Popular culture indirectly teaches people how they should act and look like. I would say that pop-culture dictates what music you listen to, what clothes you wear and which morals you may and may not embrace destroying individuality. It takes a strong mind, a degree of courage and persistent determination to genuinely be different especially when you're young. I believe Pop Culture runs hand in hand with the young generation of the time. This is the way that generation defines itself among the other generations. For example: Elvis was an Icon for the rock & roll generation of the 50's-60's, so were James Dean and TV Sitcoms later on. Rhianna and Fergie are part of the Rap Culture generation of the 2000's, so are cell phones. People today reflect this in their styles. We have 'Goth", Ipods and laptops also.
Each of these generations/pop cultures tried to make themselves stand apart from the older folks of their time, each one selected particular popular figures or items from their cultures to do that. This is how I've seen Pop Culture and its influence in my life. It is a way for a new generation to stand apart from the generations before it. Basically popular culture is what we are adopting in present.
More Information could be found on: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Popular_culture