Dear CUUG members and friends,
Our April meeting will be a discussion night.
Please note our revised non CUUG member policy.
Non CUUG members remain welcome subject to the new guidelines.
Regards,
Chris Aziz
CUUG President
April General Meeting
General Discussion: Items in the News
What interesting UNIX-related items have you come across in the news recently? Our April general meeting will be an
informal round-table (okay, technically more hexagon- or octagon-table) discussion of items our members and guests have
come across. Here are a few ideas to get things started (we may or may not get to all of these):
1. BASH on Ubuntu on Windows. Is this reason to rejoice?
2. Drones. Lots of challenges to air safety and privacy, with a lack of certain
regulation in most jurisdictions.
3. Lack of basic security standards in many corporations, from the number of
cases of breaches and other failures. This
really appears to be getting worse, not better.
4. Lack of basic privacy in standard Business-to-Individual (B2I) interactions,
especially on the World Wide Web. Seems
every company wants to get to know as much about people as possible, to the
point of refusing to deal with them if
they try to maintain the personal privacy that used to be standard. They all
want to slurp up that data and either
use it themselves and/or sell it, often with no certainty what they're doing
is worth it.
5. Advertising online. The old line was "I know half the money we spend on
advertising is wasted, but we just don't
know which half." Now many websites and people are deriving income from ads
and major companies running massive ad
networks. But the new advertising is rife with click-fraud and other
corruption. And people are fed up with crap ads
and even ad-network delivered malware. The old line is all new again.
Something is going to give.
6. Intelligence Big Data. The governments and large corporations have also
bought into hoovering up as much as
possible, with apparently no indication of whether all this massive
unfocused data is even doing any real good. Be
seeing you.
7. The Internet of Things. Soon to be the Internet of Spying and Hacked Things.
Tillyard Conference Centre
715 - 5 Ave. S.W.
5:30 PM, Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.
/Building doors are locked at 18:00, so please try to arrive early./
There is $2 parking after 16:00 across the street in the underground parkade
(McDougall Centre).
*Non CUUG members remain welcome but now must RSVP to off...@cuug.ab.ca at CUUG no less than 48 hours prior to the
meeting. *
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