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Driverless Cars (A perspective)

Driverless cars have come in vogue since Elon Musk came to helm at Tesla about a decade ago. He brought with him the knowledge and ambition of the information and communication technology industry into an old and conventional industry such as car manufacturing. Since the Tesla's growth through these years, driverless technology has taken everyone by storm and multiple people from George Hotz (a jailbreaker once) to corporates such as Ford, at the forefront of achieving  this once difficult dream. The advantages though are ease of access, and lesser possible collisions and disadvantages being humongous costs of transition, and takes away the thrill/ driver jobs. Source:  indiatimes.in     First, discussing the pros of this new technology, companies like ZooX (my cousin works here) and Tesla have come a long way in designing cars, which are mostly autonomous and don't need a regular access to servers for basic navigation through the present road infrastructure. This he...

Input sanitization in mobile applications

User input sanitization is very important for multiple reasons in any kind of application design. It is to ensure security, and meaningful input. There could be unwanted consequences if this was not taken care of, as we see in examples of some large corporates accounts getting hacked for credit card data of its consumers. This could be achieved in multiple ways from checkboxes, to regular expressions, depending on where it is to be set up. Image Courtesy:  learnjavascript.today     The security aspect for the need of cleaning of input can be further divided into multiple realms. Mainly, its for the security of the company networks, so that it's safe from injection attacks that is achieved by taking only input that is necessary; also, it helps the end user, as the safety of information of any corporate (unlike Sony in early 2010s) can safeguard their personal and payment information.     Secondly, input sanitization helps in increasing efficiency of the system, a...