2020 Top Ten of Polemic for Technology

Wireless security

Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks. The term may also refer to the protection of the wireless network itself from adversaries seeking to damage the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the network. The most common type is Wi-Fi security, which includes Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). WEP is an old IEEE 802.11 standard from 1997. It is a notoriously weak

Earthquake environmental effects

Earthquake environmental effects are the effects caused by an earthquake, including surface faulting, tsunamis, soil liquefactions, ground resonance, landslides and ground failure, either directly linked to the earthquake source or provoked by the ground shaking. These are common features produced both in the near and far fields, routinely recorded and surveyed in recent events, very often remembered in historical accounts and preserved in the stratigraphic record. Both surface deformation and faulting and

Video game publisher

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer

Twister II

Twister II is a wooden roller coaster located at Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colorado

AppLocker

AppLocker is an application whitelisting technology introduced with Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. It allows restricting which programs users can execute based on the program's path, publisher, or hash, and in an enterprise can be configured via Group Policy

0.0.0.0

In the Internet Protocol Version 4, the address 0.0.0.0 is a non-routable meta-address used to designate an invalid, unknown or non-applicable target. This address is assigned specific meanings in a number of contexts, such as on clients or on servers

Header (computing)

In information technology, header refers to supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted. In data transmission, the data following the header is sometimes called the payload or body

Rover 600 Series

The Rover 600 Series was a compact executive car range that was produced by the British manufacturer Rover from 1993 to 1999

Telephone call

A telephone call is a connection over a telephone network between the called party and the calling party

PT&T

The Philippine Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (PT&T) is a telecommunications services provider in the Philippines since its establishment in 1962. The company caters to corporate, small/medium business, and residential segments across the country. PT&T's business categorized into two major services: Connectivity and IT Services