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
Just to be clear about the new office app, it’s a front end menu for office users. In itself it doesn’t have any word processing capabilities or anything like that. It’s just a new clean menu interface for office when you first login .I’ve been using it for sometime because it’s actually already embedded in office it’s just not prominent, you can choose to have it as your landing spot or not but in the near future version there will not be a choice. It will be the landing page for your login.