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Webcam snooper now looking for a job

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The developer of a widely vilified website that aggregated feeds from unsecured webcams is apparently looking for work as a remote programmer.

Insecam, which was criticized last week by the U.K.’s data protection regulator, no longer features webcam feeds but has the message: “Programmer is looking for a good remote job. Skills: Linux, FreeBSD, C/C++, Python, MySQL.”

The attention drawn to Insecam is likely still driving traffic to the website, but probably not from employers eager to hire its creator. Insecam contended that it did not hack the webcams but that the devices had default credentials.

In some countries, using default credentials to access a device would still be considered illegal.

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Google’s fully driverless car looking less realistic by the day

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Certain features of the driverless car have been slowly making their way into the real world in the past few years. Car companies have begun touting their new models’ ability to parallel park themselves, or to identify people or objects in the road and auto-brake before hitting them, among other things.

Ford is the latest company to embrace autonomous driving technology, announcing recently that its 2015 Mondeo sedans released in Europe will feature pedestrian detection technology, which “will scan the road for pedestrians and issue a warning,” Ford’s manager of driver assist technologies Scott Lindstrom told MIT Technology Review this week.

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Netflix looking to hire a ‘Chaos Engineer’

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Here’s a job offering you don’t see every day (asterisks mine): “Netflix is hiring a ‘Chaos Engineer’ … Basically, somebody to go in and f**k s**t up to prove we can recover. Ping me for details!”

The “recruiter” in this case is Dan Woods, a senior software engineer at Netflix, and the “listing” was in the form of a tweet, which elicited a string of wisecracks – and a few expressions of interest — from the Twitter crowd:

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Netflix is no stranger to chaos. In 2012 the company released the source code for Chaos Monkey, the first of its Simian Army collection of cloud testing tools.

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Where your personal data goes when you’re not looking

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What businesses know about any given individual is a lot. But what are companies doing with that data? Not as much as you might think — at least not yet. Companies are getting more sophisticated, however.

The trove of data that’s out there includes:

Traditional offline data gathered by credit bureaus and data aggregators, including public data from telephone directories, court and property records

User account data collected and retained by businesses with which consumers have purchased products or registered for services

Data from online activity including searches, social media profiles and tweets, mobile app activity and Web browsing habits

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