Are you familiar with the images shown above? What if you want to find out what these images contain? For those of you who are not familiar with Google reverse image search, do the following: Go to Google Images and click on the camera icon towards the right end of the search bar. Continue reading “The Magic Of Reverse Image Search”
Demystifying Android
Look around you and you’ll see a lot of Android phones. In fact, Android has the biggest market share in the smartphone market. People don’t really know much about what happens under the hood. Laymen are excused from this because they will probably not benefit much from having this knowledge. But what about techies? Can we really afford to be equally ignorant about this? I have been fiddling with Android for quite some time now and I thought I should just elucidate a little on the world’s best-selling mobile operating system from a tech point of view. Continue reading “Demystifying Android”
Exposing The SSL Encryption
In my previous blog post, I couldn’t discuss much about SSL encryption. I didn’t want to deviate from the main topic. So here, I discuss about the loopholes in the protocol. I have tried to simplify it as much as possible. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and it is a protocol for secure communication over the internet. It just provides enough security to keep attacks at bay, but if someone reeeeally wants to get in, SSL will not be able to stop the attack. Here’s why: Continue reading “Exposing The SSL Encryption”
Deconstructing The Geek Talk In The Movie ‘The Social Network’
Recently, I was watching a random Youtube video and I stumbled across a video which showed a scene from the movie ‘The Social Network’. This is a conversation between Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. In this scene, Zuck is interviewing candidates for the internship job in California for his company. It goes something like this: Continue reading “Deconstructing The Geek Talk In The Movie ‘The Social Network’”

