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Reclaim your privacy

By Edward Snowden originally posted on theintercept.com Everybody doesn’t need to know everything about us. Your friend doesn’t need to know what pharmacy you go to. Facebook doesn’t need to know your password security questions. You don’t need to have your mother’s maiden name on your Facebook page, if that’s what you use for recovering your password on Gmail. The idea here is that sharing is OK, but it should always be voluntary. It should be thoughtful, it should be things that are mutually beneficial to people that you’re sharing with, and these aren’t things that are simply taken from you. If you interact with the internet … the typical methods of communication today betray you silently, quietly, invisibly, at every click. At every page that you land on, information is being stolen. It’s being collected, intercepted, analyzed, and stored by governments, foreign and domestic, and by companies. You can reduce this by taking a few key steps. Basic things. If information is being...

Tips: Stall Ticketing System

In Papua New Guinea, we have Cultural Shows with celebrating our unity in our diversity. At these cultural shows, individuals and organizations set up stalls in the show grounds. For the organisers, there is a problem that is always faced. And that is how to give stall passes and keep track of them. Last year at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology Cultural Show and 39th Independence Anniversary Celebrations, the organizing committee faced the same problem. How could we make sure that one stall pass was not used for multiple entries? Stall passes are needed to maintain the stalls so they need to: Have unlimited entries; and  Be valid for the duration of the show Problem Certain people use the stall pass for multiple entries. After the stall keepers have used the pass for entry, it is passed to others to enter the show arena without paying. Solution To prevent this from happening, two sets of stall passes were used. Stall entry pass Stall exit pass ...