Inventors of Computer Hardware

Inventors of Computer Hardware:

Fathers of Technology: 10 Men Who Invented and Innovated in Tech

IT would not be the same without the contributions of these pioneering men.

When people are asked to describe inventors, they often use one word: genius. As a society, we look upon the inventor with awe, and we fawn over his inventions with curiosity and admiration. We wonder, how did he do that? Where did he find his inspiration?

In the course of IT history, certain men have breathed life into groundbreaking technologies that most users now take for granted. In honor of Father’s Day, and as a companion piece to our 10 Mothers of Technology, we’ve compiled a list of 10 men who have helped shape IT with their inventions.

Here’s a toast to 10 fathers of technology.

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1:Key board— Herman Hollerith, first keypunch devices in 1930’s

2:Transistor— John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley       (1947-48)

3:RAM— An Wang and Jay Forrester (1951)

4:Trackball— Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff (1952)
5:Hard Disk— IBM , IBM 350 Disk File (1956 )

6:Integrated Circuit— Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce( 1958)

7:Computer Mouse — Douglas Engelbart (1964)


8:Laser printer— Gary Starkweather at XEROX in 1969.


9:Floppy Disk— Alan Shugart &IBM ( 1970)

10:Microprocessor— Faggin, Hoff & Mazor – Intel 4004 (1971)

Apple hires developer of World's Most Secure Messaging App

Developer behind world’s most secure messaging app joins Apple

Signal is the world's most secure messaging app. 
Photo: Open Whisper Systems

Apple is serious this time to enhance its iPhone security that even it can not hack. To achieve this the company has hired one of the key developers of  Signal — World's most secure, open source and encrypted messaging app.

Frederic Jacobs, who worked to develop Signal, announced today that he is joining Apple this summer to work as an intern in its CoreOS security team.

"I'm delighted to announce that I accepted an offer to be working with the CoreOS security team at Apple this summer," Jacobs tweeted Thursday.

 
One of the iPhone-maker’s most recent hires, Frederic Jacobs, was previously a lead developer for Signal, which has earned a name as one of the most secure messaging apps available. It’s so good, it’s become a favorite of former NSA-contractor Edward Snowden who says he uses it everyday.

Apple has not commented on the recent hire, but Jacobs sent out a tweet on Thursday morning detailing his new post with Apple’s Core OS security team. The position is an internship but no details were given on how long Jacobs will be working in Cupertino.

Plans to make the iPhone security tougher than ever were supposedly underway even before the FBI’s demands that Apple unlock the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. In an appearance on ABC’s World News Tonight Tim Cook stated that creating such a tool would be like the software version of cancer.

Jacobs spent the last two and a half years as a security engineer at Signal-creator, Open Whisper Systems, where he worked on the end-to-end encryption for the iOS app. What Jacobs’ new role at Apple will entail is under wraps, but he could be part of the team that implements a new backup strategy for iCloud authentication that would make it impossible even for Apple to decrypt.

Apple to build 'Unhackable' Services

The reason behind the Apple's hiring is quite clear as the company is currently fighting a US court order asking Apple to help the FBI unlock iPhone 5C of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook.

Basically, Apple is deliberately forced to create the special, backdoored version of iOS, so that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) may be able to Brute Force the passcode on Farook's iPhone without losing the data stored in it.

However, Apple CEO Tim Cook has already refused to provide such a backdoor into the iPhone that would degrade the privacy and security of all iPhone users.

If comply with the court order, the company would be flooded by the FBI and the CIA requests to unlock more iPhones of criminals in near future and the recent request made by the United States government to unlock 12 more iPhones would be just a starter.

But, in an effort to eliminate the chance for government and intelligence agencies for demanding backdoors, the company is removing its own ability to do that, for which they are hiring new interns in its core security team.

Apple found Jacobs a good fit for this, as he had spent two and half years with Open Whisper Systems, the company behind Signal, before leaving the company earlier this year.

Signal 2.0 Free Private Messenger App for Encrypted Calls and Texts

Aternative Messenger

Facebook and WhatsApp are closer together in the future and once again raise the question of how to deal in future with the user data. In terms of privacy and end-to-end encryption in this country has been threema outsell that is to have a safe Messenger on iTunes and Google Play Store for. Open Whisper Systems has now with version 2.0 its free Messenger signal for iOS expanded.

Signal Messenger App

An open source software group, Open Whisper Systems, has announced the release of Signal 2.0 — the second version of its free and open source messaging application for iPhone and iPad users.

Signal app is specifically designed to make secure and easy-to-use encrypted voice calling. But that’s what the application was providing in its previous release introduced last July with Signal 1.0.

Apple’s iMessage also provides encrypted communication, but it was challenged by security researchers in 2013, revealing that Apple controls the key infrastructure and could, in turn, be compelled to change a key anytime they want, and read the content of your messages.

But there was no way to send secure messages from an iPhone iMessage to an Android phone, or vice versa, unless you signed up for a monthly subscription plan and got the person you wanted to communicate with to sign up for it too.

GAME CHANGER: SIGNAL 2.0

Signal 2.0 lets you send end-to-end encrypted messages to users on different platforms for free.

Signal 2.0 allows users to send end-to-end encrypted group, text, picture, and video messages between Signal on iPhone and TextSecure on Android.

Open Whisper Systems is both a large community of volunteer Open Source contributors, as well as a small team of dedicated grant-funded developers. Together, we're working to advance the state of the art for secure communication, while simultaneously making it easy for everyone to use.

"We’re going to unify TextSecure and RedPhone into Signal on Android, release a desktop version of Signal, and keep working to push the envelope of secure protocols and private communication,"said Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Open Whisper Systems on Monday.

PRIVATE MESSAGING

• Say Anything - Send high-quality group, text, picture, and video messages, all without SMS and MMS fees.
• Be Yourself - Use your existing phone number and address book. There are no separate logins, usernames, passwords, or PINs to manage or lose.
• Stay Private - We cannot read your messages, and no one else can either. Everything is always end-to-end encrypted and painstakingly engineered in order to keep your communication safe.
• Get Organized - Archive functionality makes it easy to keep track of the conversations that matter to you right now.
• Pay Nothing - The development team is supported by community donations and grants. There are no advertisements, and it doesn't cost anything to use

"We cannot hear your conversations or see your messages, and no one else can either."  

PRIVATE CALLING

• Speak Freely - Make crystal-clear phone calls to people who live across town, or across the ocean, with no long-distance charges.
• Stay Private - We cannot hear your conversations, and no one else can either. No exceptions.
• Pay Nothing - The development team is supported by community donations and grants. There are no advertisements, and it doesn't cost anything to use.

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 Washington-based software firm Silent Circle, offers encrypted calling and texting services for a monthly subscription, and is a partner in Geneva-based SGP Technologies which makes the BlackPhone, a security minded device that offers 'PrivatOS' that allows users to make and receive secure phone calls, exchange secure texts, encrypted file storage, secure video chat, and anonymize your activity through a VPN (virtual private network).

However, with Signal 2.0 you can send and receive strongly encrypted messages and voice calls for free via a simplest and easiest interface yet, making it usable for those users who doesn't know too much about encryption to use.

• The source code is available on Github for inspection.

Signal Desktop

Today we’re making the Signal Desktop beta available. Signal Desktop brings the trusted private messaging experience of Signal to the desktop, with a simplicity that allows you to seamlessly continue conversations back and forth between your mobile device and your desktop computer.

Private messaging, now with all ten fingers

As always, everything is end-to-end encrypted and painstakingly engineered in order to keep your communication safe – allowing you to send high-quality private group, text, picture, and video messages for free.

Justice Department Wants Apple's Help Unlock 12 More iPhones

Earlier Creditek Posted  Apple CEO defies US court order to unlock iPhone 

Just One Device? No, Government wants Apple to Unlock 12 More iPhones

 Now Creditek  Posting One More Interest post i.e.,

Justice Department seeks to force Apple to unlock 12 more iPhones

Apple is fighting against a court order to unlock one iPhone for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). But according to the Wall Street Journal, the Department of Justice is currently pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. excerpt data from “about a dozen” iPhones around the country. 

It appears that when Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, announced that the Federal Government wanted Apple's help to design software that would compromise the security of all iPhones, he wasn't lying. According to Business Insider, the Feds want Apple to hep them crack phones involved in at least a dozen other cases. 

 Originally the FBI asked Apple to assist them in unlocking the phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Apple states that they complied within their means, but when they were asked to create iOS software that could bypass the phone's security, they backed off. Despite being ordered by a judge, Apple refused to create this software, in fear of it getting into the wrong hands and compromising the security of all iPhone users. 

The justice department now wants Apple to aide in cracking phones involved in at least a dozen other cases. Apple is still refusing to threaten the security of their customers. 

Many people have mixed beliefs on this matter. A survey conducted revealed that over half of the participants believe that Apple should assist the government in hacking the San Bernardino shooters' phone, despite the risks involved. 

However, “in most cases, rather than challenge the orders in court, Apple simply deferred complying with them, without seeking appropriate judicial relief,” the prosecutors said.

For years, Apple has abided with these orders, say prosecutors. However, in late 2015, the company decided to step up its position on privacy and protecting user data, and began asserting that it should not be compelled to obey such government requests.

Apple has received overwhelming support from the vast majority of its users and peers in the technology industry, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter. In his interview to Bloomberg, Bill Gates too said that he does not back the FBI’s side of this particular case, and that the matter should be decided by the courts

Bill Gates wants Apple to Help the FBI

"Nobody's talking about a backdoor," Gates told Financial Times. "This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case."

Here Are 10 Useful Websites That You Never Knew Existed That You Need

Here are 10 such websites

1. Hackertyper
Hackertyper is one such amazing website on this list. You can prank your friends by showing of your coding speeds on this website. Open this website and just press anything. The website is designed to show your keystrokes as code.

2. 10Minutemail.com
10Minutemail is a service that lets you create an email address only for 10 minutes. You can use this website to get an email id for getting subscription or entering fake id on any website. The beauty of this website is that all your mails will self destruct in 10 minutes.

3. Fake Name Generator
If you are a shy kind of guy or a privacy lover and hate to share your real name, this website will help you to create a fake full ID with full details. This website generates random fake id for any user and for any purpose.

4. Down for Everyone or Just Me
Sometimes many website go down or not open in your computer. This website helps you to check if website is really down or it’s just for you.

5. Date to Date Calculator
Calculate difference between two dates and year. Additionally, this site offers you some really nice stats.

6. Take Screenshot of Any Webpage
You can take full HD screenshot of any webpage and convert that screenshot into JPG/JPEG, PNG and PDF format.

7. Use Google without Country Restriction
When you enter google.com , Google redirect you to country domain like google.in or google.co.uk. If you want to use Google without any country restrictions, open google.com/ncr .

8. Virustotal
If your friend sends you suspicious file or you download any file from the Internet you might risk getting a virus on your computer. With this website you can check if your file contains any virus.Virustotal is a free online virus scanner.

9. Live Hacking Attack Map
This website allows you to see live DDoS attacks taking place all over the world. You can see attacking IPs, attack types, ports and lots of other info.

 10. You can Destroy My Website
This neat little Javascript trick lets you destroy websites. When you open below link, an arrow will open on the screen. Now Press space and enjoy the shooting. Control the arrow with arrows keys.
Drag the button to your bookmarks bar to destroy some other website.You can even participate on the global leader board.

Why Blind Topper Chose Stanford Over IIT

Today We are Sharing With you People An Inspirational Story Ever we had.

                   “A lot of people think that disabilities limits you from doing certain things. But I think success comes to those who believe in their strengths.” – Kartik Sawhney.  

                               

Kartik Sawhney

Kartik Sawhney is currently an undergraduate, studying his Bachelors in Computer Science at Stanford University. While he is among the several Indian students studying in the US, what sets him apart is that Kartik is blind. His impairment was seen as a disadvantage by the IITs of India. Stanford offered Kartik an opportunity to follow his passion – science. But this story is not about Stanford or the IITs. It’s about Kartik and his determination to overcome what are commonly considered as insurmountable hurdles.

Kartik’s father owns a car accessory store in Lajpat Nagar, Delhi. His mother is a homemaker. He has a twin sister and an older brother. Kartik passed his class XII CBSE exams with a 95 per cent in a stream considered challenging by many – Science with Computer Science.

As a result of his visual impairment, Kartik had to wage his first war against the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which initially refused him a seat to study science in class XI. The board wasn’t convinced that Kartik would be able to handle the ‘visual inputs’ — graphs, diagrams, models, required for science. He had to write more than two dozen letters to the board and had an NGO campaign and his school negotiate for him before he was allowed to opt for science in class XI. “It was very difficult to convince the authorities to let me study science,” says Kartik. Once he got to study science, his school — Delhi Public School, R K Puram — found ways to help him. “For practicals, the teacher explained the apparatus and in the test, I got multiple choice questions based on the practical curriculum,” Kartik said, as reported by India Times.

“After class VIII, most blind are exempted from studying maths and science. They are offered subjects like music,” states George Abraham, CEO of Delhi’s Score Foundation. But Kartik was firm on pursuing the subjects of his choice – Science and Computers. Kartik scored 99 in Computer Science and 95 each in Mathematics, English, Physics and Chemistry. He scored 479 out of 500.

Kartik was hoping to complete his education in India. His next choice was Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). However, the IIT entrance exam doesn’t cater to blind candidates, making it impossible for Kartik to study Science and Engineering at one of India’s renowned institution.

“The journey was discouraging at times. But it’s satisfying to have gotten into Stanford, which has a support system for visually-challenged students,” said Kartik

Despite all odds, Kartik is now at Sanford and hopes to become a software developer and produce applications that are accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities. It’s time the Indian education system pull up it’s socks and fills glaring gaps before India loses many more ‘Kartiks’ to another country.

End Note: Achievements

At school Kartik was an exceptional student, winning laurels for the school in diverse events ranging from academic Olympiads to model UN conferences, music competitions to programming contests. Academically, Kartik emerged as the Class "topper" since class V. He was selected for the National Talent Search and the Junior Science Talent Search scholarships – two of the most prestigious scholarship programs in India. In recognition of his achievements, he was honoured with the National Child Award for Exceptional achievements which is the highest honour for children in India.

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Best Websites for Freelance Work

Best Websites for Freelance Work

Being a freelancer is equal to being your own boss! You have the freedom of following your passion, setting your own work hours and not being bound by some contract. However, there can be downsides as well. The job searching part is one of the most common problems for a freelancer as most of the offers they come across turn out to be scams as in some cases, they don’t get paid.The good news is that, there are trustworthy, legitimate sites to help freelancers find paid work online. Regardless of your skills—be it a programmer, writer, designer or artist, you will find a job.

So, here’s presenting a list 9 of the best sites below so you can start to apply for jobs today, reports, Lifehack!

1. Peopleperhour

If you are a writer, web developer, designer or SEO specialist, Peopleperhour is the place to be.

At Peopleperhour, projects are posted 24 hours a day. Make it a point to look out for brand-new jobs every time you sign in as you are more likely to be noticed if you just happen to be one of the first people to make a job proposal

2. Upwork

Given Upwork’s impressive clientele consisting of 1.5 million clients, you can be rest assured that freelancers of various types will get work. There are jobs for both beginners and experts, and projects can range from being as short as an hour long or last for much longer. One of the main benefits of Upwork is that you can find long-term job contracts, some lasting over 6 months.

3. Craigslist

There are many who perceive Craiglist as a platform for buying and selling things, but it is also an excellent job site for freelancers. You can either search for local jobs in your area by searching local offerings, or you can find remote work by searching through major cities.

4. Toptal

Toptal here is slightly different than its counterparts in this list as it is only aimed at experts and pros. A candidate has to pass their thorough screening process in order to get work at Toptal. If selected, you will have access to important projects for big clients, such as Airbnb, with reasonable compensation. You will also be able to attend Toptal meet-ups and events.

5. Demand Media

This one’s for the freelancers on the creative side such as writers, film makers and photographers. Demand Media offers reasonably paid work with the chance to promote your talents, and it also has a blog with helpful tips and advice on how to improve your marketing skills.

6. 99designs

99designs provides freelance designers the chance to hold design contests to hire designers. The process means that designers get feedback from possible clients, helping them to improve their talents. It also helps the designers connect with small businesses, helping the designers to build up reputable portfolio.

 7. College Recruiter

College Recruiter is the perfect job site for the recent graduates and students. The site offers jobs to only students and graduates—right from entry level jobs to internships. They offer work in accounting, marketing, business, education, computer science and more.

 8. Freelancer

Freelancer is a competitive job platform, so it is ideal for confident and qualified freelancers. For each project, the hopeful freelancers will compete with each other in order to prove their skills. Despite the tough process, the jobs are well worth the competition.

 9. Freelance Writing Gigs

Freelance Writing Gigs is ideal for writers, editors, publishers and bloggers. The site, along with offering paid writing work also runs a blog with tips on writing, blogging and business. It also has posts to help freelancers apply for work, which is useful for people who are just starting out as a freelancer.

Good luck!