Sunday, March 11, 2012

Safety First

Entrepreneurial Idea: "There's an app for that." Or so they say, but there's no app for changing the language interface on an Android phone. We are forced to go with an Iphone or a weird unresponsive smartphone to get the language setting we want. Android is getting better and better every passing day, but they are still losing out on a lot of customers because of no option to change the language setting like one can do on an Iphone. My idea is for an app that can do that. The day we can all have ANY phone of our choice with the language we understand will be the day cellular devices take a great leap into the future.

Ok, let's backtrack. Remember that idea in the blog titled "Technical Improvements" where one can save their speech translations and then save it on a cloud? There can be a lot of security risks if this app is used by a corporation. Some of the conversations may contain very sensitive information that other people (outsiders) shouldn't have access to. In a world that is becoming more technologically advanced by the second there are also people out there who work every second on how to break the security on these advancements. These people include hackers- who just basically try to hack into a database. Then there are "crackers" who will probably try to access an employees recorded messages by trying to figure out their username and password. Finally comes the hardest to deal with and hardest to fish out threats, "corporate spies" i.e. unethical employees, they try to gain  high level access in a corporation in order to access information. Great...what to do now?

Just like every second technology is being improved, and every second people try to break the security measures put in place to protect sensitive information, there are also people working on trying to stop these people from accessing this information. These kind of people are the saviors of privacy on the internet. They have developed a system called, "Firewalls" that protects data from unauthorized intrusions by constantly monitoring transmissions to and from the computer. So, in the event that something malicious, like a virus were to attack, the system would know right away so that the virus can be quarantined immediately. I guess putting out a few extra bucks won't hurt, if you want your data safe.

So, are you afraid that your data will be stolen, or accessed without your permission? Don't worry the translation app has you covered. It already comes with all the necessary protection software that it needs to keep everything safe and away from prying eyes. Rest assured that everything that needs to be kept private, will be kept private. Then, to add icing to the cake you can also customize the app's security settings- that is also protected by an encryption (people who do not have the proper access codes cannot tamper with the security settings) so that you can monitor exactly what goes in and out.

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