SPEAIT2021K Carlos Rodriguez

 I will talk this week about eye-controlled mouse. A technology that can help you to control the computer just with your eyes. I have been looking for different approaches to get a good functionality such as glasses with cameras attached to it or just cameras attach to the screen to render your eyes and movements. I am taking these options as a complementary functionality of a mouse or touchpad because of the difficulties of perform operations like clicking, dragging files and so on. I am more optimistic about using some implant in your brain that can collect your thoughts, eyes movement (all of them in form of electrical reactions) and codify them to interact with the computer and be able to fully control your computer, optimising the using experience. To get familiar with the technology I found a paper called "Eye-controlled mouse cursor for physically disabled individual" that explains a simple way to have this technology working. It involves a  web – cam or camera attache

 This week I will talk about the different lynux distributions. First question I made myself and I think it is understandable, is why so many distributions are   available ? The answer is simple and it is to better suit your needs because of the applications you are supposed to run. Some distros are geared towards user entertainment and may include all of the programs necessary to reproduce video and audio, in any format (including owners), others are more oriented to games  others to security, some to science, others to education, etc. (Target of the software). Apart from that, that I think is the main reason due to the easiness of the software to create custom distributions, there are other reasons such as the use or not of open code even when it holds copyleft license (I think this is mainly when the distribution  is run through a server). Given the fact that there are a few hundred distributions and many are even to be released, and like each one of these has both advantages and di

 I think Pekka Himmanen when referring to the term hacker he tries to tries to reflect the spirit of  70’s when the enthusiasm, passion, creativity, care, freedom,... was driving all the people on the field. I don’t say it is no longer like that but probably not at that level at least in terms of freedom and passion. In contrast the information nowadays, with the appearance of the WWW, is more available that it was back then and the amount of people with technological awareness or knowledge has exponentially increased and if you really want to get into this field, you have to feel some passion and the necessity to be creative bringing something valuable to the society and yourself. As we saw in the past article creativity and passion is what it makes a community to move on. Without that, we know that everything will remain static and this is prone to collapse at certain point. A good example of the Ethical Hacker Values and the way it has improved the world is the creation of the WWW b

On this week’s blog, I will talk about one curious case about censorship and another concerning privacy when it comes to fight organized crime or terrorist groups.  Regarding censorship I will talk about the Streisand effect. The singer Barbara Streisand gives the name to this social phenomenon that occurs when a censorship intention has the unintended effect of propagating further the event that is trying to hide. The term alluded to Barbra Streisand, who in 2003 sued photographer Kenneth Adelman for distributing aerial pictures of her mansion in Malibu. But Adelman was no paparazzo—he operated the California Coastal Records Project, a resource providing more than 12,000 pictures of the California coast for scientists and researchers to use to study coastal erosion. Of course, news outlets around the world reported on Streisand’s outrage, and before long, the photo on Adelman’s website (below) had received well over a million views. At the end it was a calamity for the artist because

 I will talk this week about the overall cybersecurity state in Spain. As everywhere else, due to the continuous growing of digitalisation, the business sector and the population as a whole is taking note of the consequences of not being prepared against cyberattacks. Many of them, especially companies, have already suffered some economic loss for this reason. The awareness is higher in big companies, since they can be identified as major targets by many cyber criminals and the possibility of bigger investments and counting with better equipment and professionals but the fact that most of the companies in Spain are medium-small size and the lack of enough measures against these attacks make them easy fish catch for criminals. In regards the public sector, there is a strong legislation to avoid disruptions and leaks in the critical infrastructures such as health care facilities, energy centers,… All this legislation has often as origin a European Directive. Nevertheless, the medical hea