Anti-Piracy Groups Mull “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Tackle Pirate Sites
Most adults seeking to do any kind of business with banks, financial entities or even gambling companies will have experienced efforts to positively identify who they are. So-called ‘Know Your Customer’ regulations require that companies, mostly in the financial sector, carry out checks to determine that the individuals they are dealing with are actually who they say they. Such verification is usually carried out when an...
Analyzing systemd calendar and timespans
In my previous seven articles in this series about systemd, and especially in the most recent article, time and date have come up in multiple contexts. systemd uses calendar time, specifying one or more moments in time to trigger events (such as a backup program), as well as timestamped entries in the journal. It can also use timespans, which define the amount of time between two events but are not directly tied to specific calendar...
Open source cross-platform development with TotalCross
There’s a question that pops up quite frequently at TotalCross—in our day-to-day work, after presentations, in Reddit discussions, and sometimes even in our Telegram channel. Let’s answer it once and for all: No, TotalCross Virtual Machine is not another Java Virtual Machine. This article explains the differences between the two, how TotalCross interacts with Java, and how to know which is best for your application....
An introduction to mutation testing in Python
You have tests for everything; maybe you even have a badge in your project repository stating 100% test coverage. But what are these tests helping you do? How do you know? read more Powered by...
Who Pulled Off the Twitter Hack?
Plus: WhatsApp’s court case, a VPN exposed, and more of the week’s top security news. Powered by WPeMatico
