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PC Outlaws Meeting                   
February 1, 2021

(Note: Jitsi-Meet Only, Virtual Meeting)
Monday 9:00 AM (PST)

Note1: The following (Chromium based) browsers will work with
either Jitsi-Meet, Google or Skype Meeting.
These are the optimum browsers, others may cause video streaming
problems on your end.
Microsoft Edge 
Google Chrome 
Opera & Opera GTX
Brave, but you MUST disable “Shields” first.
Vivaldi
Amazon Silk

1a: Robotics; Do You Love Me (Kelly M.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw

Lynda.com is an educational resource available for free through our library system here on the peninsula under Online Resources: https://www.lynda.com/

1b: Designing customized ‘brains’ for robots: https://techxplore.com/news/2021-01-customized-brains-robots.html

 2: How Devices Use Wi-Fi to Determine Your Physical Location (Don B.): https://www.howtogeek.com/708500/how-devices-use-wi-fi-to-determine-your-physical-location/

3a: How to delete yourself from people search sites: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2020/09/26/how-protect-your-privacy-deleting-data-people-search-sites/5860692002/

3b: Consumer Reports, How to Delete Your Information From People-Search Sites: https://www.consumerreports.org/personal-information/how-to-delete-your-information-from-people-search-sites/

3c: 8 ways to stop your phone from tracking you: https://www.komando.com/smartphones-gadgets/stop-your-phone-from-tracking-you/543526/

4a: Microsoft Rolls Out Password Monitor Feature on Edge Browser (v 88): https://in.pcmag.com/browsers/140454/microsoft-rolls-out-password-monitor-feature-on-edge-browser

4b: Homomorphic Encryption explained: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/homomorphic-encryption/   and  https://medium.com/privacy-preserving-natural-language-processing/homomorphic-encryption-for-beginners-a-practical-guide-part-1-b8f26d03a98a

4c: Protect your online accounts using Password Monitor: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/protect-your-online-accounts-using-password-monitor-6f660aae-65aa-476c-871a-7fe2bcb0c4c1

Interwebs or news around the tubes

 Breakthrough Allows Inexpensive Electric Vehicle Battery to Charge in Just 10 Minutes: https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-allows-inexpensive-electric-vehicle-battery-to-charge-in-just-10-minutes/

 3Mbps uploads still fast enough for US homes, Ajit Pai says in final report: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/3mbps-uploads-still-fast-enough-for-us-homes-ajit-pai-says-in-final-report/

Better than the best password: How to use 2FA to improve your security (Al B.): https://www.zdnet.com/article/better-than-the-best-password-how-to-use-2fa-to-improve-your-security/

Security firm Malwarebytes was infected by same hackers who hit SolarWinds: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/security-firm-malwarebytes-was-infected-by-same-hackers-who-hit-solarwinds/

 Logic bugs found in popular apps, including Signal and FB Messenger (Jim H.): https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/113657/hacking/signal-fb-messenger-logical-flaws.html