The Finnish national Covid-19 contact tracing mobile app (by the @THLorg agency) has now been out for a month. Some notes:
The app has been downloaded 2.2 million time so far (Finland has 5.5 million people). We’ve had 1800 confirmed infected persons during this time. Of those, 600 persons were users of the app, and used the app to warn their potential contacts.
One of the people who received an exposure notification via the app was our prime minister. She quarantined, and tested healthy later.
Our government budgeted 6 million euros for the development and delivery of the app. So far, the project has used less than half of that.
According to pretty scientific poll, 70% of my followers still have magnetic stripes in their credit cards—which is technology from the 1970s! Here's a short thread about some of the similar encoding systems that are all around us.
Nowadays, barcodes can be found in nearly every product we buy in stores. Developed in the 1950s, barcodes were originally based on the Morse code.
The square-shaped QR codes were invented in the 1990s. The Japanese spare parts manufacturer, Denso Wave, developed the quick response (QR) code for marking spare parts packages in 1994. Pictured: Masahiro Hara of Denso Wave.
China is rising as an online superpower, a thread:
The Internet has been firmly controlled by the United States. People around the world use services—such as search engines, cloud services, and social media services—built in the United States.
This is actually somewhat counterintuitive, since the United States stopped being a major player on the Internet some time ago in terms of user numbers.
Countries that participated in operation Trojan Shield: Canada, Australia, US, Sweden, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Austria, UK, New Zealand, Estonia, Scotland, Germany, Denmark. #anom#an0m
"Law enforcement has been monitoring messages on the ANØM platform. To determine if your account is associated with an ongoing investigation, please enter your SIM Card number and password."
Mark Zuckerberg's own data is in the Facebook leak. His Facebook ID number is 4.
There are no user IDs 0-3. The only other single-digit user IDs in the leak seem to be:
ID 5: Chris Hughes
ID 6: Dustin Moskovitz
Other early facebook users include:
ID 11 Soleio Soleio
ID 27 Colin Kelly
ID 74 Daniel Mejia
ID 86 Jason Wen
ID 87 Emily Hurd
ID 102 Alex Lee
ID 104 Amy Ng
ID 139 Jeff Winer
ID 158 Teresa Grado
ID 185 Zach Seward
ID 210 Adam Levine
ID 287 Peter Buttigieg