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Facebook Messenger Adds New Admin Privileges Amid Backlash Over Company's Mishandling of User Data

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Facebook today  announced  the rollout of a new feature in Messenger called "Admin Privileges." With this toggled on, the company said that it will give specific users in a group chat "more control" over who partakes in the chat, and should help boost the app's privacy.  If you have admin privileges you'll be able to approve or decline new members before they join the chat, remove members already in a chat, and promote or demote any other person as an admin. The company said that the feature should help large groups who need to get in touch but may not be connected to on Facebook, like for a friend's surprise party.  There are also new joinable links that any member can create and send out to potential new members, which an admin will then be able to approve. These admin privileges will be turned off by default:  The great thing about admin privileges in Messenger is they work in the background; if your group chat doesn’t need that level of control, i...
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What is Bitcoin? How does it work?

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What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a digital payment system created by an unknown programmer, or a group of programmers, under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. It is the first decentralized digital currency. Bitcoins are digital coins, you can send over the internet. Compared to other choices, bitcoin have many advantages. They are transferred straight from person to another via Internet without going to the bank. It means that the transactions fees are extremely lower, anyone can use them in every country, the account cannot be frozen and there are no limits. How does it work? Many currency exchanges exist on the Internet where you can buy and sell bitcoins. Your coins are saved in your digital wallet on your computer or mobile device or any online wallet. Sending and receiving Bitcoins is as easy as sending and receiving email, you can buy anything with Bitcoin. When it comes to the transaction it generates a first Bitcoin address, something like an email, which acts in ...
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How to Secure Session Management in Node

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In a web application, data is transferred from a browser to a server over HTTP. In modern applications, we use the HTTPS protocol, which is HTTP over TLS/SSL (secure connection), to transfer data securely. Looking at common use cases, we often encounter situations where we need to retain user state and information. However, HTTP is a stateless protocol. Sessions are used to store user information between HTTP requests. We can use sessions to store users' settings like when not authenticated. Post authentication sessions are used to identify authenticated users. Sessions fulfill an important role between user authentication and authorization. Exploring Sessions Traditionally, sessions are identifiers sent from the server and stored on the client-side. On the next request, the client sends the session token to the server. Using the identifier, the server can associate a request with a user. Session identifiers can be stored in cookies, localStorage, and sessionStorage. Session identi...
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Angular 9 - User Registration and Login Example & Tutorial

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How to download a file using command prompt (cmd) Windows?

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If you’re like most Internet users, you download various types of files now and then. You either download these files with your web browser or some download manager software. Have you ever considered downloading files using the command prompt i.e. CMD? If not, we recommend you to try it. It’s quite interesting apart from being very useful as well. In this article, we’ll show you how to download a file using command prompt aka CMD. How to download a file using command prompt?   There are several useful commands for the Command Prompt and one of them is  bitsadmin . Though bitsadmin has several uses, here we shall limit this article to its role in downloading files only. If you want to read the details about bitsadmin syntax, continue reading this section. Otherwise, you can scroll down to the next section –  Downloading a file .   The syntax of bitsadmin is : BITSADMIN [/RAWRETURN] [/WRAP | /NOWRAP] command   As you know, the parts of the syntax inside ...
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