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The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – Polar Fitness App Location Data Exposed, Blocking Scam Phone Calls, Samba TV Privacy Controversy

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This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for July 16th, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket.  This episode was hosted by Tom… Continue reading The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – Polar Fitness App Location Data Exposed, Blocking Scam Phone Calls, Samba TV Privacy Controversy→

Polar Fitness App Exposes Location of ‘Spies’ and Military Personnel

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The fitness app Polar Flow exposes the whereabouts of some of its high-profile users, including “spies” and those with sensitive positions in the military. Continue reading Polar Fitness App Exposes Location of ‘Spies’ and Military Personnel→

Pimp My Scope

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Most of us have heard some form of the adage, “You can buy cheaper, but you’ll never pay less.” It means that cheaper products ultimately do not stand up to the needs of their superior counterparts. Hackers love to prove this aphorism wrong by applying inexpensive upgrades to inexpensive tools to fill up a feature-rich tool bag. Take [The Thought Emporium] who has upgraded an entry-level microscope into one capable of polarized and dark-field microscopy. You can also see the video after the break.

Functionally, polarized images can reveal hidden features of things like striations in crystals or stress lines …read more

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A Polar Coordinate CNC Plotter Even Descartes Could Love

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Take apart a few old DVD drives, stitch them together with cable ties, add a pen and paper, and you’ve got a simple CNC plotter. They’re quick and easy projects that are fun, but they do tend to be a little on the “plug and chug” side. But a CNC plotter that uses polar coordinates? That takes a little more effort.

The vast majority of CNC projects, from simple two-axis plotters to big CNC routers, all tend to use Cartesian coordinate systems, where points on a plane are described by their distances from an origin point on two perpendicular axes. …read more

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