Tech History
I remember the 80s and 90s tech
It taught me to use the technology as it was intended
That’s why I don’t generally root or jailbreak my devices
People would argue with me about customizations but will not realize the risk that comes with that kind of customization
Stupid topics like icons; I personally leave them as they were but that’s up to you, you won’t lose the ability to patch because you moved some icons around
But you will lose the ability to patch if it’s a rooted device
One thing I learned over the years of doing tech is that no matter how good the technology gets, the people factor is always the hardest to fix.
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“The first computer program was written in the mid-1800s by Ada Lovelace, who is considered to be the first computer programmer.”
Charles Babbage
“The term “bug” in computer science refers to a problem or error in a computer program. The term was first used by Grace Hopper, who found a moth stuck in a computer at Harvard University in 1947.”
first compiler by Grace Hopper in 1951
FORTRAN was written in 1957, first high level programming language, short for FORmula TRANslator, written for mathematics
LISP was written in 1958, short for LISt Processor, written for artificial intelligence (at the time)
COBOL was written in 1959, written in an attempt to make programming languages more readable
Simula was written in 1965, the first object oriented language
Smalltalk was written in 1972
“The first computer game, “Tennis for Two,” was created by William Higinbotham in 1958.”
“The first computer mouse was made of wood and developed by Douglas Engelbart in the 1960s.”
OO was invented by Alan Kay in 1966
“The first computer network, called ARPANET, was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1969.”
“The first computer virus, called “Creeper,” was created in 1971 as a research project by Bob Thomas.” First computer virus in history is called the Creeper
“The first computer virus to spread through the internet, called the “Morris Worm,” was released in 1988.”
“Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.”
By Guido van Rossum, Python’s first release in February 20, 1991
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.java/c/aSPAJO05LIU/m/ushhUIQQ-ogJ?pli=1 Before Google
Git was invented in around 2000s before that, backup was done manually
iPhone first came out on June 29, 2007
Hack History
History fun fact: Reagan formed the first cybersecurity department because of a movie “War Game.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_government_data_breach
IAM History
Identity Use Cases (pre-2010)
- Simple login (forms and cookies)
- Single sign-on (SAML)
- Mobile app login
- Delegated authorization
Simple login (or forms authentication) Form connects to db
- hash password
- verify hash
- look up user info
- look up authorization info
Identity Use Cases (pre-2014)
- Simple login (OAuth 2.0)
- Single sign-on (OAuth 2.0)
- Mobile app login (OAuth 2.0)
- Delegated authorization (OAuth 2.0)
Identity Use Cases (today)
- Simple login (OpenID Connect)
- Single sign-on (OpenID Connect)
- Mobile app login (OpenID Connect)
- Delegated authorization (OAuth 2.0)
Legacy
OAM (Oracle Access Manager)
CA (Computer Associates) SiteMinder
RSA ClearTrust (EOL June 2021)
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