Entry # 14 - Apr 10 2014

Heartbleed web security bug: What you need to know

Oscar Qi
Apr 10 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/heartbleed-web-security-bug-what-you-need-to-know-1.2603988

There is a huge bug that people just discovered. It’s called heart bleed bug. It’s not a bug we see every day on the ground, it’s an internet security bug.  This bug can cause people to see your email, personal information, username, password etc. This bug is called heart bleed because when it is exploited from the client to the server and vice versa. It’s pretty look like a bleeding heart. Many internet services are affected, like the Canada Revenue Agency site, yahoo etc. The users don’t know if their personal information is already been stolen or not. This bug can be fixed, but just not by us. In order to protect ourselves, we should change our passwords. Though this is not very useful, the bug is going to leak the information soon or later, but it can limit the people who already know your password.

 

This is a terrible bug. This bug will make people know the password of my LOL account, and then the things will become terrible. Even more seriously, my families’ information might be stolen, and our family might be in danger. No one want any personal information been leak out. Without any doubt, we want the people who are currently working on this fix this bug as soon as possible. Before everyone see everyone else’s personal information and password etc. For the people who don’t know computer very much, like us, it will just be a disaster for us.

Entry # 13 Apr 10 2014

Bullous pemphigoid: how it affects the body

Oscar Qi
Apr 10 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/bullous-pemphigoid-how-it-affects-the-body-1.2605978

Jim Flaherty was Canada’s finance minister. He died of a heart attack at the age of 64, which is this year. He was also suffering from a skin disease called bullous pemphigoid.  He revealed in 2013 January that he has this disease. This disease affected him for many years. It might have a connection with his massive heart attack. This disease is formed when the antibodies attack on the skin even though there is no infection. The skin will usually turn red first and itchy. It then may cause muscle weakness, bone damage and irregular heartbeat etc. This disease is very painful. The patient usually will suffer from a burning feeling. However, this disease is very rare.

 

I think it’s unfortunate for this great man’s death. I also thinks that his death have something to do with this disease. But it’s not the main cause for sure. I think we should always protect our body from every detail, and learn lessons from the mistake that the other people have already made. The heart disease is known as the first killer in the whole North America. I believe in the whole world it’s a very deadly killer as well. My grandfather and maternal grandfather were all died from this disease. I hope people will stop suffering from this disease, and the medical system could develop quickly.

Entry # 12 - Apr 10 2014

Malaysia Airlines MH370: New possible 'pings' detected in jet search

Oscar Qi
Apr 10, 2014
CBC news: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysia-airlines-mh370-new-possible-pings-detected-in-jet-search-1.2605073

The Australia research team recently found a “ping”. They might found the black box for the MH370. The MH370 have 239 people to Beijing on board. The Australia air units and sea units are all trying their best to find the black box or the plane’s flight recorder around the sea where the MH370 disappear. The airplanes drop the sonar around the sea. The area that’s been searching for is around the size of Los Angeles. The sea units send out the Bluefin subs to research on the area around the sea. The time they have is very limited, since the batteries can only last 1 month or so. The searching operation might fail soon.

 

In my opinion, I think this is so unfortunate. There are many Chinese on the plane as well, and they were just ordering drinks and lying on the seat just like we do when we were on the plane. But their air plane was crashed, we are not. I think this tragedy must have something to do with Malaysia. Malaysia must have some truth that was not published yet. But the most important thing is people should never give up hope to find the black box. Everyone wants to know what specifically happened in that plane. I hope we can defeat the time and actually find the black box and figure out what really happened.