Since the emergence of the internet, there has been many good and bad stories of it as well. But nonetheless the advantages are way more than the disadvantages.

Security as with every other area has been one of the negatively affected areas of the internet and in recent days there have been really worse issues as regards to cyber security.

Virtually half of the services on the internet requires one authentication or the other and this at most times leads to the being a member.

The primary authentication methods on most of these services are passwords and it has been bedeviled by lots of hack attempts in recent times which at most times ends up bringing negative results for the owners of such passwords.

On the heels of these negative development a United States Tech Company has put and are still putting efforts in place to see that something more secure replaces passwords,  and that is YOU.

The company 1Uapps has actually developed a technology that allows you to use your selfie  to login in to any of your online accounts. This means we are all going to be giving up on the traditional authentication means “PASSWORDS”.

And below is exactly how it works:

1U™ is a mobile application created to conveniently safeguard your usernames and passwords and make your online life easier. 1U™ is the only application to use a combination of state-of-the-art biometric technologies and Liveness Detection systems, leveraging the smartphone as the biometric acquisition device, to recognize who you are, and then quickly and securely log you into your favorite websites with our 1-Look™ technology. Once downloaded, the user will set up his or her biometric data linked to their unique device ID and email account, link it with their PC or laptop, and assign the secure websites that he or she would like to use 1U™ to access. You can view your site on the mobile device or on the computer.

You can find more information and an extended explanation of the technology on their website. www.1uapps.com

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SELFIES TO REPLACE PASSWORDS.

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A test flight of the 'world's fastest plane' has ended in disaster after the vehicle crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

The US military's Falcon HTV-2 - which travels 22 times faster than a commercial airliner - was launched amid promises of flights from London to Sydney in less than an hour.
Attached to the back of a rocket, the plane blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, before detaching at the edge of space.
But after around nine minutes, the craft stopped sending signals and is believed to have plunged into the ocean.
Engineers had hoped to guide the plane on a hypersonic flight, and that it would reach speeds of around 13,000mph upon its return to Earth.
Travelling at about 20 times the speed of sound and withstanding temperatures of 2,000C, the plane was designed as part of a research project.
A previous launch attempt was abandoned and plane designs changed in April due to a fault on board the aircraft.
Nine minutes into that previous mission, at which point the plane had flown for 139 seconds reaching 16,700mph, an onboard computer detected an anomaly and ordered the plane to ditch in the ocean for safety reasons.
A second attempt on Wednesday was delayed to Thursday because of poor weather conditions.

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Superfast Plane Crashes In Pacific Ocean

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Debates are growing over the increasing use of remotely piloted and armed drones, with a new study by the British Defense Ministry questioning whether advances in their capabilities will lead future decision-makers to “resort to war as a policy option far sooner than previously.”

Active and retired US Air Force officers involved in developing drones stress that the aircraft brings in more decision-makers, better targeting data and more accurate delivery systems than fighter jets.

But use of the unmanned aerial vehicles has drawn growing public scrutiny based on their lethal attacks in Pakistan against Al Qaeda, in Afghanistan against the Taliban, in Yemen against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and most recently in Libya, as announced last week by US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

The British study noted that drones were becoming increasingly automated. With minor technical advances, it said, a drone could soon be able to “fire a weapon based solely on its own sensors, or shared information, and without recourse to higher, human authority.” It cautioned that the Defense Ministry “currently has no intention to develop” such systems.

Nonetheless, the aircraft, piloted by people far from the battlefield, represents an approaching technological tipping point “that may well deliver a genuine revolution in military affairs,” according to the Joint Doctrine Note, which was conducted under the direction of the British Chiefs of Staff. Titled “The United Kingdom Approach to Unmanned Aircraft Systems,” it was first disclosed last week by the Guardian newspaper.

The British study said it was essential that military officials not “risk losing our controlling humanity and make war more likely” by using armed drones. It also asserted, however, that the laws of war call on commanders on both sides of the fight to limit loss of life and that “use of unmanned aircraft prevents the potential loss of aircrew lives and is thus in itself morally justified.”

At a Washington conference of the International Institute for Strategic Studies last week, the issue of drones was also discussed.

Lt. Col. Bruce Black, program manager for the Air Force Predator and Reaper aircraft, noted that some 180 people are involved in each drone mission. The result, he said, is that “there is more ethical oversight involved with unmanned air vehicles than with manned aircraft.”

At the same conference, former CIA director Michael V. Hayden described how, with a Predator circling overhead, those involved in ordering use of its missiles from thousands of kilometers away can call up computer maps that show the potential effects of each weapon.

Before any of the Hellfire missiles are launched, he said, the backup team asks for a readout of the impact the missile would have on its ground target. Nothing similar can be done with ground-supporting manned aircraft, he said.

But the drones have become part of the propaganda war where they are used. Without referencing the Taliban or Al Qaeda, the British paper noted that insurgents had cast themselves as the underdog against a bully that was “unwilling to risk his own troops, but is happy to kill remotely.”

Black said that when a Predator operator was connected to a fighter on the ground in Afghanistan, “you can hear his voice.”

Col. Dean Bushey, deputy director of the Air Force Joint Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center, said that the crews that ran Predators went through the exact routines that airplane pilots do prior to a mission.

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Will military drones terminate man's role in war

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