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Arvind Narayanan on why enterprise software sucks. His main example are baby clothes, where two different groups of stakeholders exist: People who want to buy a cute outfit, and people who actually want to quickly dress and undress their kids.

The fact that people who are buying the software are not always the people who are using the software is a fundamental truth that has a direct impact on the motivation of developers. I have seen many people run into a trap of developing a “user friendly software” without an understanding about who is actually buying the software. It can be very frustrating putting a lot of effort into a fancy dashboard no one uses as opposed to improving the parts of the software the users are frequently using.

In an eerie case of Real-Life CSI, a stalker was able to track down his victim from reflections in her pupils on Instagram photos.

Here’s an interesting piece on security: People where cracking old passwords encrypted by insecure algorithms. A non-standard password with special characters and numbers still took them several days to crack. Bonus points for the password being a representation of a standard opening for chess.

The future is now: Adobe deactivates subscriptions for Venezuela. Adobe is mainly offering subscription-only products, with very limited options in case you want to buy instead of subscribe to a product. Also, they are not giving refunds to the holders of the cancelled subscriptions.