Tag Archives: consumer technologies

Only a Matter of Weeks Before the World Runs Out of IP Addresses

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Angie Walls
(photo by suphakit73 from freedigitalphotos.net)
Published in The DeviceLine Blog by Mocana, January 27, 2011

 

The proclaimed “Father of the Internet,” Google VP Vint Cerf, warns that there won’t be enough IP addresses left to accommodate people and businesses connected via the Internet.

Is the Chip and PIN Broken? A Controversial Solution to Bank Card Security

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Angie Walls
(photo by Petr Kratochvil from Shutterstock)
Published in Mocana’s DeviceLine Blog, January 25, 2011

 

What is the security gadget that UK bankers don’t want you to know about? A University of Cambridge student has published a paper on a new device that can protect card-holding consumers from the dangers of hackers, resulting in a financial trade group demanding that it be removed from the public.