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Drone management: The next frontier

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About a year ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a bold publicity move – he sat down for a 60 Minutes interview and showed off the company’s planned use of drones for same-day delivery to its customers.

Those familiar with the reluctance surrounding drones in the U.S. knew that Bezos was being overly optimistic. Among many other obstacles to commercial drone use in the country, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been slow to permit widespread commercial use of drones in U.S. airspace. Bezos was getting the public excited for a technology despite the uncertainty over when and how exactly his company will be able to launch it.

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Network World Colin Neagle

When management meddles with passwords

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There’s a password discussion ongoing today in the section of Reddit populated by system administrators and it was prompted by this lament:

I work in sales now, and I was a former Network Administrator. Today I got an email from management that is asking everyone for their recently changed domain passwords (apparently this is a common practice for the company).

This immediately throws up a red flag to me as the last thing I want to do is email/send/distribute my Domain password to someone else. Management or IT. I went to management and explained the security risks with storing everyone’s passwords …

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Network World Paul McNamara

Google nixes app-security management console in Android – InfoWorld

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Google nixes app-security management console in Android
InfoWorld
The EFF was dismayed since "the fact that [users] cannot turn off app permissions is a Stygian hole in the Android security model," and insisted that App Ops be restored and polished even more. When Android Police looked into the 4.4.2 fixes, it also …
EFF: You Can Have Privacy or Security on Android, Not BothPC Magazine
EFF criticizes Google for removing 'vital privacy feature' with Android 4.4.2PCWorld
Google launches Android Device Manager remote security appV3.co.uk
RT (blog) –EFF –The Verge
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