Sourav Ghosh https://souravghoshsays.github.io Aspiring Computer Scientist | Samsung R&D Institute - Bangalore | M.Tech (CS), IIT Kharagpur Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:44:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://souravghoshsays.github.io/wp-content/uploads/Professional-75x75.jpg Sourav Ghosh https://souravghoshsays.github.io 32 32 Facebook Profile Picture Guard: Completely Preventive or just a Deterrent? https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2017/06/24/facebook-profile-picture-guard-preventive-deterrent/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2017/06/24/facebook-profile-picture-guard-preventive-deterrent/#respond Fri, 23 Jun 2017 23:23:32 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=7432 This week, Facebook India launched a new tool called the Profile Picture Guard, which is aimed at preventing misuse of profile pictures by third parties and thereby giving an enhanced sense of privacy and safety to the users. But how well can it actually protect user privacy? In markets like India, there have been cases …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2017/06/24/facebook-profile-picture-guard-preventive-deterrent/feed/ 0 Facebook employing Image Recognition in Accessibility: An Informal Evaluation https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2016/11/12/facebook-employing-image-recognition-in-accessibility-an-informal-evaluation/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2016/11/12/facebook-employing-image-recognition-in-accessibility-an-informal-evaluation/#respond Sat, 12 Nov 2016 07:25:37 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=5051 Image recognition, especially, facial recognition is nothing new to casual users of smartphones and social networks. Many social networks including Facebook has been using facial recognition to suggest the names of “friends” while tagging newly uploaded photos. With increasing confidence values provided by modified algorithms, apps like Facebook Moments now boldly suggests that you send …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2016/11/12/facebook-employing-image-recognition-in-accessibility-an-informal-evaluation/feed/ 0 Subjective Review – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2016/03/25/subjective-review-batman-v-superman-dawn-justice/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2016/03/25/subjective-review-batman-v-superman-dawn-justice/#respond Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:10:11 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=4911 “Batman v Superman”: The movie title had long foretold that the bat shall fight the alien! Having already had low expectations from the storyline, going to watch this more for the iconic comic book characters was not a bad decision for me after all. Personal Observation The first half made it clear that people are …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2016/03/25/subjective-review-batman-v-superman-dawn-justice/feed/ 0 The Making of a Master Key: An alternative take on the ongoing Apple vs. FBI battle over iPhone security bypass request https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2016/02/23/making-of-a-master-key-apple-vs-fbi-battle-over-iphone-security-bypass-request/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2016/02/23/making-of-a-master-key-apple-vs-fbi-battle-over-iphone-security-bypass-request/#respond Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:12:37 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=4811 Being the netizens that our generation is mostly comprised of, it may perhaps be safely assumed that you might have come across some news article or tweet or a Facebook trending notification about tech-giant Apple and the FBI fighting over a certain request by the authorities to bypass the security methods of a specific iPhone. …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2016/02/23/making-of-a-master-key-apple-vs-fbi-battle-over-iphone-security-bypass-request/feed/ 0 First Day of Corporate Life with The Sorting Hat https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/12/25/first-day-of-corporate-life-with-the-sorting-hat/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/12/25/first-day-of-corporate-life-with-the-sorting-hat/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:21:56 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=4331 This post follows the events of Our Luxurious Abode – Orchid 307. Adapted from my private journal entry on 10th March, 2015. The day was the 4th of August, 2014. We woke up in the morning, completed our chores as soon as possible and rushed downstairs to catch the company bus. The bus took around 20-25 …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/12/25/first-day-of-corporate-life-with-the-sorting-hat/feed/ 1 Our Luxurious Abode – Orchid 307 https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/12/22/our-luxurious-abode-orchid-307/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/12/22/our-luxurious-abode-orchid-307/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:54:34 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=4171 This post follows the events of The Journey towards a New Beginning. Adapted from my private journal entry on 10th March, 2015. As soon as the door was opened, all of us started rushing inside to scavenge for rooms. Although no one has ever admitted, each one of us was on the lookout for the …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/12/22/our-luxurious-abode-orchid-307/feed/ 2 The Journey towards a New Beginning https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/12/22/the-journey-towards-a-new-beginning/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/12/22/the-journey-towards-a-new-beginning/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:11:52 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=4021 Adapted from my private journal entry on 09th March, 2015. Today, I am going to start writing about an experience that has probably never been such intense for me till date. The number of people who actually know how it was is very less. To be frank, perhaps there are only a few people who …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/12/22/the-journey-towards-a-new-beginning/feed/ 1 Photo tagging abuse : A chagrin of social media https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/01/26/photo-tagging-abuse-a-chagrin-of-social-media/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/01/26/photo-tagging-abuse-a-chagrin-of-social-media/#respond Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:31:24 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=2901 Although the word “tagging” was not coined by social media, yet today it has become quite commonplace, thanks to the mass acceptance and popularity of sites like Facebook and Instagram. We take group photos, upload them on these sites, share them with out friends, but we don’t stop there. We tag the people in them! …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2015/01/26/photo-tagging-abuse-a-chagrin-of-social-media/feed/ 0 The Adventurous Chronicles of 2014 https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2014/12/23/the-adventurous-chronicles-of-2014/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2014/12/23/the-adventurous-chronicles-of-2014/#respond Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:05:13 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=2711 Last year around this time, based on my trips to Dehradun, Bangalore, Chennai and Puri, and getting to interact with so many interesting people and receiving awards from IT giants, I thought that 2013 had been the most eventful year. And, I was right…. until 2014! 2014 was an adventure of a lifetime. So many …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2014/12/23/the-adventurous-chronicles-of-2014/feed/ 0 The Great Mind Challenge 2012 – An Exciting Journey https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/09/24/the-great-mind-challenge-2012-an-exciting-journey/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/09/24/the-great-mind-challenge-2012-an-exciting-journey/#comments Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:08:05 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=2081 When I saw an update today on the pages that I had been monitoring for the last few weeks, and realized that it had been an entire year since we conceived the idea of our project, an indescribable feeling ran through me. It was roughly around 15th September last year when four students from our …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/08/22/facebook-rolls-out-embeddable-posts-to-all-users/feed/ 0 Chat with your Google contacts from Outlook.com https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/07/04/chat-with-your-google-contacts-from-outlook-com/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/07/04/chat-with-your-google-contacts-from-outlook-com/#respond Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:28:25 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=154 Email used to be once a very important part of what we called the Internet. And it is indeed one of the essence of this vast network, which still holds much importance even today when many of us are more comfortable sending short pieces of information via IM services and direct messaging clients like Facebook, …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/07/04/chat-with-your-google-contacts-from-outlook-com/feed/ 0 Switching Network type in Windows 8.1 https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/07/03/switching-network-type-in-windows-8-1/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/07/03/switching-network-type-in-windows-8-1/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:28:49 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=129 Windows 8.1 Preview has just been released to the public, and in case you have installed this preview build on your machine, chances are you might have observed that some software (especially security suites) that were working perfectly in your Windows 8 machine won’t work here. It is quite normal for third-party security companies to …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/07/03/switching-network-type-in-windows-8-1/feed/ 6 How to resume a failed download in Mozilla Firefox from the previous position https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/06/28/how-to-resume-a-failed-download-in-mozilla-firefox-from-the-previous-position/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/06/28/how-to-resume-a-failed-download-in-mozilla-firefox-from-the-previous-position/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:43:26 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=113 Nowadays, many of us use integrated download managers to download files of large sizes. As it is quite expected that such downloads might take quite some amount of time on typical household connections, support for pausing and resuming the download is quite important. In modern browsers like Mozilla Firefox 22, Google Chrome 29, Internet Explorer …

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]]> https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/06/28/how-to-resume-a-failed-download-in-mozilla-firefox-from-the-previous-position/feed/ 10 Watch the Build 2013 keynote at 9 pm IST today https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/06/26/watch-the-build-2013-keynote-at-9-pm-ist-today/ https://souravghoshsays.github.io/index.php/2013/06/26/watch-the-build-2013-keynote-at-9-pm-ist-today/#respond Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:38:37 +0000 https://127.0.0.1/wordpress/?p=105 The Build 2013 keynote will begin at 9 am PT (which is 9:30 pm in India) today and can be viewed over on Channel 9. Apart from launching Windows 8.1 Preview, Microsoft will share the latest updates and talk about what’s next for Windows, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio and more in Build 2013, which …

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