TorrentFreak: Warner Bros and Intel Sued Over Defamatory 4K Piracy Claims
LegendSky, a hardware manufacturer that creates devices enabling consumers to bypass 4K copy protection, has lodged several counterclaims against Warner Bros. and Intel daughter company Digital Content...
View ArticleKrebs on Security: Spammers Abusing Trust in US .Gov Domains
Spammers are abusing U.S. dot-gov (.gov) link shorteners and ill-advised features on state government domains to promote spammy sites that are hidden behind short links ending in"usa.gov".
View ArticleLWN.net: A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the...
The information is unsurprising, since it has been strongly suspected for years, but its method of disclosure is rather amusing: Edward Snowden was the target when the US government went after the...
View Articlexkcd.com: Insanity
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Linux How-Tos and Linux Tutorials: How To Test Solid State Drive Health with...
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are slowly becoming the norm, with good reason. They are faster, and the latest iterations are more reliable than traditional drives. With no moving parts to wear out, these...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Police Raid Pirate Android Box Sellers, Six Arrested
The UK's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit has arrested six individuals suspected of being involved in the supply of 'pirate' set-top boxes configured to obtain free TV from the Internet. The...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Meet the 314GB PiDrive
I’ve been writing for tech mags for as long as the Raspberry Pi has existed, and one of the most popular Pi tutorials I’ve seen in the last four years or so is the classic Raspberry Pi fileserver. It’s...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Anti-Piracy Outfit Criticizes Authorities For Not Prosecuting...
An anti-piracy group representing national and international rightsholders including Hollywood and the major labels has openly criticized authorities in Denmark over piracy. Despite being assured that...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Debian has updated xen (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated jenkins (F23; F22: multiple vulnerabilities), jenkins-remoting (F23; F22: multiple vulnerabilities), python-django (F23; F22:...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Companies Handing Source Code Over to Governments
ZDNet has an article on US government pressure on software companies to hand over copies of their source code. There's no details because no one is talking on the record, but I also believe that this...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Load Balancing and B2...
A few months ago we announced Backblaze B2, our cloud storage product. Cloud storage presents different challenges versus cloud backup in the server environment. Load balancing is one such issue. Let’s...
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Darknet – The Darkside: Frida – Dynamic Code Instrumentation Toolkit
Frida is basically Greasemonkey for native apps, or, put in more technical terms, it’s a dynamic code instrumentation toolkit. It lets you inject snippets of JavaScript into native apps on Windows,...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: I’m a Wall Street Journal Acrostic Answer
A quote from Data and Goliath is the answer to a Wall Street Journal acrostic. It's not the same as being a New York Times crossword puzzle answer, but it's close.
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Netflix Joins DMCA Takedown Bandwagon to Frustrate Pirates
Netflix has jumped on the DMCA takedown bandwagon. In recent weeks the company has reported tens of thousands of pirate links to Google alone, hoping to make pirated copies of their programming harder...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Braised Squid With Harissa and...
Recommended recipe. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
View ArticleLWN.net: xdg-app 0.5 released
At his blog, Alexander Larsson announces the release of version 0.5 of the GNOME xdg-app application sandboxing framework. The mailing list announcement provides a bit more detail on what is new, such...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Copyright Holders Want to Ban Talk About Piracy Blocklist...
Site blocking is viewed by entertainment companies as a key weapon in the piracy wars but since workarounds are easily available, its efficacy remains suspect. However, if entertainment companies have...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: After Half a Decade, We Now Know What YIFY Stands For
For several years YIFY has been one of Hollywood's biggest arch-rivals and most-recognized pirate brands. Interestingly, it always remained a mystery what those four letters stand for. Now the veil has...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: SXSW 2016 on BitTorrent: 10.33 GB of Free Music
The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States. For more than a decade SXSW has been sharing DRM-free songs of the performing artists, over 69...
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