Darknet – The Darkside: Darknet Moving Servers & Upgrades Etc
So way back, this was the site 10 years ago when it launched in 2006 – not ALL that much different from today to be honest. The current theme you see here has been in use since April 2010, so almost 6...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Inside MPAA’s Piracy Deal With the Donuts Domain Registry
The MPAA and the Donuts domain registry have announced a new partnership aimed at curtailing movie and TV show piracy. Donuts controls the .movie gTLD so the arrangement is symbolic for the MPAA, but...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] A Linux-powered microwave oven
Scratching an itch is a recurring theme in presentations at linux.conf.au. As the open-hardware movement gains strength, more and more of these itches relate to the physical world, not just the...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: AT&T Does Not Care about Your Privacy
AT&T's CEO believes that the company should not offer robust security to its customers: But tech company leaders aren't all joining the fight against the deliberate weakening of encryption....
View ArticleLauren Weinstein's Blog: Call for Participation: Internet Political Trolls...
It's no secret that vile political trolls remain massively at large in the social media landscape during this USA 2016 presidential election season. But who are they? Who are their targets? Who do they...
View ArticleErrata Security: Nothing says "establishment" as Vox’s attack on Trump
I keep seeing this Ezra Klein Vox article attacking Donald Trump. It's wrong in every way something can be wrong. Trump is an easy target, but the Vox piece has almost no substance.Yes, it's true that...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Criticial Fixes Issued for Windows, Java, Flash
Microsoft Windows users and those with Adobe Flash Player or Java installed, it's time to update again! Microsoft released 13 updates to address some three dozen unique security vulnerabilities. Adobe...
View ArticleErrata Security: Hackers aren’t smart — people are stupid.
The cliche is that hackers are geniuses. That's not true, hackers are generally stupid. It's just that the general public is event stupider.The top three hacking risks are "password reuse", "phishing",...
View ArticleLWN.net: [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 11, 2016
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 11, 2016 is available.
View Articlexkcd.com: Gravitational Waves
This post was syndicated from: xkcd.com and was written by: xkcd.com. Original post: at xkcd.com
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Hang on…..3DM Now Suggest They’ve Cracked Denuvo
With the video games market excited at the prospect of 3DM taking a year-long break, the Chinese cracking group has just thrown a wrench in the works. According to 3DM's leader, speculation that her...
View ArticleMonty says: Foundation report for 2015
This is a repost of Otto Kekäläinen's blog of the MariaDB foundations work in 2015.The mariadb.org website had over one million page views in 2015, a growth of about 9% since 2014. Good growth has been...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Fran Scott’s explosions-based computing
We were wowed by this at Bett 2015, so we were delighted when we saw that Bett had published a video of it. Top science explainer Fran Scott uses Raspberry Pis with fruity inputs and explosive outputs...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Make Privacy a 2016 Election Issue
EPIC has just launched "Data Protection 2016" to try to make privacy an issue in this year's elections. You can buy swag.
View ArticleLinux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: Linux Foundation Certified System...
The Linux Foundation offers many resources for developers, users, and administrators of Linux systems, including its Linux Certification Program, which is designed to give you a way to differentiate...
View ArticleBeyond Bandwidth: Twenty Years of Progress: Reflecting on the...
This week we’re marking the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. It’s a nice reminder that our elected officials can work together in a bipartisan...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: U.S. Copyright Law Forces Wikimedia to Remove “Public Domain”...
This year The Diary of Anne Frank entered into the public domain in the Netherlands, allowing millions of people around the world to read it for free. However, under U.S. law the book remains...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Fraudsters Tap Kohl’s Cash for Cold Cash
Scam artists have been using hacked accounts from retailer Kohl's.com to order high-priced, bulky merchandise that is then shipped to the victim's home. While the crooks don't get the stolen...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Worldwide Encryption Products Survey
Today I released my worldwide survey of encryption products. The findings of this survey identified 619 entities that sell encryption products. Of those 412, or two-thirds, are outside the U.S.-calling...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Thursday
Arch Linux has updated botan (three vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated firebird (F23: denial of service), firefox (F23: denial of service), gsi-openssh (F23: privilege escalation), and php-PHPMailer...
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