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In present if you are person who is spending more than three hours online, so definitely you will fed up with so many online accounts and different passwords. No wonder, its good opportunity for those software’s and apps who are providing password storage service. But these passwords managers are not less than gaming tool for hackers as they can easily access them. If hackers will get your master password, so they will have an opportunity to access your all accounts. However; recently, LastPass, which is one of the premium password service manager detected suspicious activity last month. Here are some tips to avoid these issues;

All accounts are not equal and easy to crack:

Instead of remembering dozens passwords, maybe there is way to remember only half-dozen. Focus on only those accounts which are important.

Always remember the passwords and details of Bank accounts, credit card information for shopping services and never forget to remember the email info. E-mail accounts are very important, because after losing the passwords with e-mail you can reset the passwords on other services such as; social media, shopping sites and more. Try to remember the information for social media accounts because you need to use them regularly however; you can avoid the discussion forums information because they have less important. May be you will not mid if someone will post on behalf of you in discussion forums, but if someone will do it on your social media platform, so it can make harm for you in professional or personal life. Try to prioritize online accounts.

For highly sensitive accounts, use unique password and remember then or keep it on the hard copy and place that paper on safe place. Never use auto-generated or electronically generated passwords.

Lower priority:

For rest of the accounts which are not important for them you can use password manager, but in certain cases it could not necessary.

Web browsers of Apple and Google have in-built mechanisms to store the passwords for different accounts and they also update your passwords when you update your password on those sites. Even you have to sync all those to use them on multiple devices. However; in this domain the Google’s new Smart Lock feature for Android apps are very much useful if you are not limited to the web browsing. Most of the other services allow you to sign-in with Facebook ID and other social networking IDs, so instead of generating the new passwords you can use them.

Mobile phones and Fingerprints:

If you are not protecting your phone with pass-code, so someone can easily swipe your phone to get into your social media accounts and email accounts. Whereas; some of the latest iPhones, Samsung Galaxy and other high segment phones making it easier to use the phones by offering fingerprint option as the pass-code instead of four digit passwords or pattern lock. Now Apple is allowing the other app developers to use that fingerprint ID and through that you can unlock the banking apps by just tapping your figure. In upcoming Android update which is known as the M, Google is planning to make it easier for app makers to use fingerprint ID. However; Microsoft also planning to include the biometrics such as; fingerprint or iris scan in upcoming Windows 10 system.

Double layer of security:

Major service provider such as; Apple, Dropbox Google, Microsoft and Facebook are offering the second layer of security in cyber space by authentication in the form of numeric code, which send as the text messages on mobile phones. After entering the regular password you can type in the received code to verify it’s you not the hacker. To avail this service you need to go into the settings of your account where you need to activate the two-step verificationauthentication.

If there is way to sign-in through mobile number instead of e-mail address, so use mobile number for sign-in process. But you have to trust the service provider that they are not going to use them for marketing purpose.

1. Set your profile in private mode:

This is the best and most important security feature which everyone can access in secure way. It can prevent your personal information if anyone will try to peep into your profile. In the simple words Facebook and other leading social media networks will provide you enough option to get into invisible mode from those to whom you want to be invisible. You can update and hide each detail of your profile as per your comfort level. You can choose to whom you want to share your personal and professional details such as; your posts, friends list, events, your pictures, your shared content and more with different options such as; with friends, friends of friends and everyone. Ideally you should set it to your friends’ option. Of course, you will be visible on the social media platforms, but after privacy settings they will be not able to access any of your personal information.

2. Experiment with your own profile name:

IF someone has your name and other details so simple he will type it into the search box and he will get the direct link of your profile, so first of all try to hide all of your personal and professional details such as; email address, phone number, work information, address and more from everyone else. Once you will cover this area, so you need to do some experiments with your profile like; you can add some symbols or font or other language in your name because these things will make it difficult to find you on social media networks.

3. Use smaller pics in your profile and make your photo album private:

All the photos which you are sharing on online should have limitation from the visibility of everyone; it means it should only visible to your friends. It is advisable to upload smaller pictures and images, for that you can use some online tolls of you can crop them. There are cases when strangers will randomly click on your profile and download your picture for further use. If you will use the small pic, then people will avoid using it.

4. Avoid tagging and linking of the profile:

Tagging photos is one of the privacy loopholes as it will divert the stranger to your profile as the people who you have tagged can be the friends of stalkers, so better to be carefully with your privacy settings. It is highly recommended to avoid the unnecessary tagging of photos. Whenever you will tag someone, the other people will get the notification as if you want to tag, so click on yes and share it on your timeline.  Most of the time whenever you will visit on websites, so they ask you to log in through the Facebook or other social media platforms, it is advisable to avoid doing that because this process will provide them your email for such purposes.

iOS UI development framework of Facebook

Now ComponentKit frame work is available for general use with a purpose to reduce the complexity of writing codes. Facebook’s ComponentKit is an open source frame work which reacts as inspired framework for iOS.

According to official statement of Facebook, our ComponentKit is a native Objective-C++ view framework which has a functional and declarative approach to build UI.  At Facebook we use it to power the news feed for Facebook (iOS) app and other products within the same Faccebook app for IOS platform. said James Pearce, Head of the open source program at Facebook.  We have rolled out in last year since then we have seen the huge improvement in all terms such as; startup times as well as in the performance and because of that the quantity of code and complexity of code we have to write is really dropped.

It is well known fact that in general ComponentKit is inspired by the React, however the sense which all the developers have declare that how they want to use any interface instead insist of imperatively put it together step by step of piece by piece, explained by Pearce. If you want to found the ComponentKit, so you are free to browse GitHub as on GitHub you can find it. While coming to functionality, ComponentKit emphasizes one way of data flow which is immutable components to immutable models.

The basic components of ComponentKit can describe that how views should be configured and it also allow developers to focus on what the interface itself looks in terms of operation and function, rather than focusing on steps process to build any particular interface.

ComponentKit is now available for everyone and by making it available to everyone, Pearce said now Facebook is expecting to get the same advantage that Facebook has in the form of simplicity of code.

Benefits:
During the process of rebuilding the news feed for the Apple devices, functional programming was very reliable, says Adam Ernst, engineer based in NY Facebook office. This approach by Facebook has clearly indicated that compared to declarative type of programming, functional programming has more benefits. Different developers have different approach towards this technology.
If this approach and programming model is implemented, then many of the other organizations will be able to provide better debugging options and performance.

The engineering team along with Ernst was enthusiast of this new programming model as lot of tension was getting raised during the debugging and maintenance process of the news feed especially when a user adds new item. Given the number of Facebook’s user, keeping the material up to date might look simple but it at the back end it is build on complex systems.
How it works:
Facebook’s newsfeed consist of different sets of items that has been posted in any profile by friends and family in the form of status updates, videos, photos, location etc. Each login by the user creates a new customized personal newsfeed. This process has to be very fast to avoid the latency time in the user. Every time a user posts any comments or even click on the like button, creates lot of complication as the information needs to get updated in real time.

According to Ernst, functional programming has been this complicated task easy and possible. It helps in understating the flow of information through code and how it can be reproduced easily and fast. Functional programming enables the developer to compose program by assembling a chain of functions. When compared to the declarative program it doesn’t use standard loop often known as immutability.

Even though functional programming is very popular in the academic community, it has not seen much implementation until recently. The popularity of this functional programming can be attributed to the multicore processors. The new Facebook iOS has already been implemented in iphone and ipads which enables the entire newsfeed to get refreshed even after single click. The amount of memory that can be taken by the functional programming has not been an issue to the Facebook engineers.

There are lots of languages designed for functional programming like ML, Haskell, Scheme and F# language etc. along with many other languages like java, JavaScript or even swift can be used as well. Ernst and team have used what they call multiple paradigm language which includes languages like C++, Objective C classes of objective etc, which can support lot of functions.
Based on this functional style, a user interface library has been created in another part of the company, known as React. This was the inspiration for Ernst. Currently they are working on getting the team of Android client to look for investment in this programming.

As per Ernst, using this programming model in iOS has increase the idea sharing in Facebook and future growth is expected.