Evernote Was Hacked

Several months ago, I switched my primary note-taking tool from Notepad++ and Microsoft Word to Evernote. Its simplicity, cloud synchronization, and universal accessibility through the network made it indispensable. There was a buzz recently about Samsung’s new refrigerator featuring an integrated Evernote app for food management, showcased at CES. At that moment, it felt like Evernote was ushering in a new era for its ecosystem. However, as the saying goes, “the morning sun never lasts a day.” Evernote was hacked last week, and customer information was potentially compromised. ...

March 7, 2013 · 1 min · 182 words · Fran Kuo

Pure public or hybrid cloud for surveillance system?

The pure public cloud is no doubt that we build the web services on public and the hybrid combine the private part. According to the information on wiki, the public cloud aka external cloud is related to the service is provided by third party. There is a picture on wiki can describe exactly what we talk about. Basically, there are four deployment models on wiki. The private cloud can’t satisfy the requirements of the surveillance system. We do not talk about the community cloud also because it’s not real on surveillance system. ...

February 16, 2013 · 2 min · 327 words · Fran Kuo