Some sources think that disagreements between CEO and founder Jack Dorsey are apart of the reason that Keith Rabois is leaving. In a statement Rabois said. “Leading our amazing crew has been the most rewarding professional journey of my life. I am forever grateful to Jack, for his confidence in me and to each and every member of the team for allowing me to learn from them. But every day matters. And it is better at this point for me to be doing something different every day.” Sarah Friar will become acting COO.
A Federal Court Justice made the ruling after hearing that a man was unable to use his DSL, which was connected to his phone and fax line, for two months. The man wanted compensation for not being able to use the internet. According to a court spokesman, “The Internet plays a very important role today and affects the private life of an individual in very decisive ways. Therefore loss of use of the Internet is comparable to the loss of use of a car.”
Several restaurants are banning the customers taking pictures of their food. It is very distracting to the other customers. Some people have gone as far as standing on chairs to get pictures of their plates from above. Some restaurants take the customer into the kitchen to shoot the plate as it comes out, this makes it more of an adventure for them. In some of the smaller restaurants it is very distracting.
The Dawson student that was expelled because he exposed Skytech’s security flaws has been offered a scholarship and part-time job by them. The student said that he was surprised because Skytech had done nothing to help him since he was expelled. Dawson College is standing by its decision for expelling him for breaking the school’s code of conduct.
Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a 20-year old computer science student from Montreal’s Dawson College was expelled after he found and reported a flaw in the computer system used by most Quebec CEGEPs. Ahmed was working on a mobile app to allow students to access their college account. He found sloppy coding in Omnivox software that would allow anyone with basic knowledge of computers to access the personal information of any student in the system, Social insurance number, home address, and phone number included. He brought his findings to the attention of the Director of Information Services and Technology Francois Paradis. Paradis promised that he a Skytech would fix the problem immediately. Two days later Ahmed decided to run a software program called Acunetix to test if the problem had been fixed. A few minutes later his phone rang and it was Edouard Taza, the president of Skytech. He said that they saw Ahmed in their logs and that what he was doing was a cyber attack. Ahmed apologized repeatedly and explained that he was one of the people that had found the problem. Taza said that if Ahmed did not meet with him and sign a non-disclosure agreement that he was going to call the RCMP and have Ahmed arrested. Ahmed signed the agreement. The administration of Dawson College proceeded to expel Ahmed for a “serious professional conduct issue.”
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