Fridaygram: online safety, asteroid close call, spectacular glacier
By Scott Knaster, Google
Developers Blog Editor
You’re reading a blog for developers, so chances are you’re probably pretty savvy about how
things work online, and that includes safety and security. Of course, just because we know how
to be secure doesn’t mean we always do what we should. And there are all our less-technical
friends and family members who often turn to us for guidance. To help keep people secure
online, we
recently
updated the site
Good to
Know: A guide to staying safe and secure online.
This site contains lots of common sense and advanced tips, such as how to secure your
passwords, ways you can prevent identity theft, and a guide to technical terminology. Although
Good to Know is designed to be useful to people from all backgrounds, even
us tech folks can find some handy information there.
Speaking of safety, it turns out we can all can relax about
Asteroid 2012 DA 14.
According to
NASA, the 45-meter object will get
close to
Earth, but no closer than about 17,000 miles. The space agency also says the
asteroid won’t be visible to the naked eye, and will be hard to track even with telescopes.
But the important thing is that we won’t have another
Tunguska event.
Although it looks like we’re going to avoid an asteroid impact, nature continues to
demonstrate enormous power that is sometimes destructive and awesome. A camera crew recently
filmed an immense glacier
calving, an event that lasted more than an hour. You can watch it from the comfort
of your asteroid-safe home.
Safety is important, whether you’re on the Internet or looking out for asteroids.
While we spend most of the week here telling you about Google developer topics, Fridaygram is
set aside for science, technology, and other fun & generally nerdy
topics.
