Wednesday Miscellany
Jan. 22nd, 2014 11:02 amOriginally published at Finding God in a Dog. You can comment here or there.
Things I'm thinking about today:
- It appears that Healthcare.org, already plagued with difficulty, is also demonstrably massively insecure, as one hacker was able to access the records of about 70,000 users in four minutes.
- 51-year-old Bryan Duane Tilley of Keizer, Oregon, is accused of hacking his stepdaughter’s social media accounts in order to control her behavior and ward off a suitor. His alleged behavior constitutes straight-up cyberstalking IMO. He plead not guilty today in criminal court. Why he couldn’t just have a conversation with his stepdaughter is beyond me.
- Python has millions of uses, with more invented every day. For example, this guy used it to try to find a suitable partner on OKCupid. He got lots of matches, but as it turns out, the actual compatibility varied.
- Peter Siebel argues that code is not literature. The problem with his argument is that we use the same process of decoding to read and interpret art. I’m not saying he’s wrong, but the difference is in what’s being communicated, not in how it’s communicated.