TorrentFreak: Dropbox Scores Patent for Peer-to-Peer Syncing
Dropbox has obtained a patent for peer-to-peer synchronization. The technology allows users to securely share files across different devices without uploading these to Dropbox's centralized servers....
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Fraudsters Automate Russian Dating Scams
Virtually every aspect of cybercrime has been made into a service or plug-and-play product. That includes dating scams -- among the oldest and most common of online swindles. Recently, I had a chance...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 01/04/16
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. 'The Martian.' tops the chart this week, followed by ‘The Bid Short' 'The Revenant' completes the top three.Source: TorrentFreak, for the...
View ArticleLWN.net: Kernel prepatch 4.4-rc8
As expected, Linus has released 4.4-rc8 rather than the final 4.4 release. "Normally, me doing an eighth release candidate means that there is some unresolved issue that still needs more time to get...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Warner Bros and Intel Sue 4k Content Protection “Stripper”
Warner Bros. and Intel's daughter company Digital Content Protection have sued a hardware manufacturer that creates devices enabling consumers to bypass 4K copy protection. The devices, sold under the...
View Articlexkcd.com: Substitutions 2
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View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Artificial Raspberry Pi Pancreas
Every now and then a project turns up that makes us blink hard and wonder what on earth we’ve started with this Raspberry Pi thing. This is one of them. Dana Lewis has Type 1 Diabetes, which she’s had...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: De-Anonymizing Users from their Coding Styles
Interesting blog post: We are able to de-anonymize executable binaries of 20 programmers with 96% correct classification accuracy. In the de-anonymization process, the machine learning classifier...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Anti-Piracy Education Enters UK Classrooms
A new component of the Creative Content UK initiative is set to discourage Internet piracy via the classroom. Encouraging students to think about who will pay for Vin Diesel's socks if everyone pirates...
View ArticleDarknet – The Darkside: Dradis – Reporting Platform For IT Security...
Dradis is an open source reporting platform for IT Security, tailored towards the types of information that need to be shared amongst an information security team during a professional engagement. It...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Monday
Arch Linux has updated rtmpdump (code execution). Debian has updated samba (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated cacti (regression in previous update), libvncserver (memory corruption),...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Windows 10 Whole-Disk Encryption without Key Escrow
On the Intercept, Micah Lee has a good article that talks about how Microsoft is collecting the hard-drive encryption keys of Windows 10 users, and how to disable that "feature."
View ArticleLWN.net: IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment...
RFC 1883, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification, was published 20 years ago. Ars Technica takes a look at IPv6 adoption. "First the good news. According to Google's statistics, on December...
View ArticleAWS Official Blog: Amazon WorkMail – Now Generally Available
I first wrote about last year when we made it available in preview form. At the time, I noted that is a managed calendaring and email solution that runs in the and works with your existing desktop and...
View ArticleКлошкодил: 2016-01-05 разни около opendata.government.bg
Едно от нещата, с които се занимавам, е да помагам на Общество.бг с разни админски дейности. opendata.government.bg е един от техните проекти, който след доста мъки се deploy-на в държавната...
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: T-Mobile’s Tampering with Video Is Bad for Everyone,...
It's been clear for years that major early battles over net neutrality would likely be in the video delivery realm. With the rise and expansion of Internet video streaming services like YouTube,...
View ArticleLWN.net: Gillmor: I Moved to Linux and It’s Even Better Than I Expected
Dan Gillmor describes his experience moving to Ubuntu full-time. "So for anyone who’s even slightly interested in retaining significant independence in desktop and laptop computing, Linux is looking...
View ArticleLWN.net: Git v2.7.0 released
The Git 2.7.0 release is now available, adding a number of enhancements to this version-control system. The headline feature appears to be a much-needed rework of gitk for better appearance on...
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Медийно право : Полша: на дневен ред е въпросът за върховенството на закона
#PatrzymyNaWas На 13 януари 2016 Европейската комисия ще проведе политически дебати за състоянието на върховенството на закона в Полша. За два месеца управлението на партията Право и справедливост...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: BitTorrent Inc. Wants to Woo Major Brands to Boost Revenue
BitTorrent Inc, the company behind the world's most popular torrent clients, is seeking an individual to help boost its advertising revenues. A job listing posted in the past few hours reveals the...
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