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Yearly Archives: 2020

Security: The Vulnerabilities of Smart Locks

By Dick Weisinger

Smart locks are door locks that are controlled by your smart app. The app can automatically open and lock your front door as you come and go and log all activity of entrances. But the apps have vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, smart…

Open Source Community: Projects Wither Without Successful Maintainers

By Dick Weisinger

What makes a successful Open Source project? The software? The Community? Yes. But long term success is really only possible because of the maintainers and founders who lead and guide the project. Without them the software would never have existed…

Security: The Top 25 Most Exploited Software Flaws

By Dick Weisinger

Hacking and exploits have unfortunately become common-place hazards of working with computers. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released the 2020 list of most dangerous software vulnerabilities, a list that they’re calling the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). The CWE…

Augmented Technologies: Flavoring Your Software with ML and AI

By Dick Weisinger

“New and Improved” doesn’t have the right ring any more in the world of business software. As software improves, even if incrementally, marketing forces the monikers to change. There was a period of time where ‘2.0’ was the signal for…

Artificial Intelligence: Wide Rollout of AI, but Mainly for Select Use Cases

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses have adopted AI in a big way. A survey by MIT Technology Review found that 97 percent of large companies have deployed already AI in some way. By 2022, companies about one-third of all business processes will include AI…