Raspberry Pi: Laser Dog Monitor
Dave Young lives in Denver with a baby, a wife, and a dog called Penny. Penny’s a good dog (good dog, Penny!) – she’s a softie around the baby, walks to heel, and doesn’t destroy things. All that good...
View ArticleLWN.net: Security advisories for Thursday
CentOS has updated openssl (C5: three vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated unattended-upgrades (improper package authentication).
View ArticleTorrentFreak: YouTube Doesn’t Have To Police Piracy Proactively, Court Rules
A court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that YouTube is not required to actively monitor user uploads for pirated content. The court found that YouTube is not liable for what users upload, but did...
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[Медийно право] [Нели Огнянова] : БНР: “тези данни ни карат да не губим...
Колкото и малки да са стъпките, обещани от Радослав Янкулов в концепцията му, озаглавена Малки стъпки към големи промени, месеци преди края на мандата има обещаване на стъпки, противопоставяне на...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Details of the NSA’s XKEYSCORE
The Intercept has published a highly detailed two-part article on how the NSA's XKEYSCORE works, including a huge number of related documents from the Snowden archive. So much to digest. Please post...
View ArticleErrata Security: Some notes when ordering Google’s Project Fi
I just ordered my "Project Fi" phone. You probably should, too. Here are some notes (especially near the bottom on getting a new phone number).Project Fi is Google's MVNO. An "MVNO" is a virtual mobile...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Tech Giants Oppose Broad Anti-Piracy Injunctions
The CCIA, which represents global tech firms including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, is protesting a broad injunction that would require search engines, ISPs and hosting companies to stop linking to...
View Articlexkcd.com: Tamagotchi Hive
This post was syndicated from: xkcd.com and was written by: xkcd.com. Original post: at xkcd.com
View ArticleSANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green: Analyzing Quarantine Files, (Fri,...
Quarantine files are produced by anti-virus programs. When an anti-virus detects a file (a positive), it will take action. A possible action is to put the detected file in quarantine: remove it from...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: Popcorn Time Blamed For Movie Streaming Piracy Explosion
Norway, a country that has reportedly all but eradicated music piracy, is reportedly facing a new piracy crisis. After a study found that the illegal streaming of movies and TV shows has doubled in a...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi: Climate control
If you’re in the UK this week, you’ll hear a lot of people muttering darkly about the big yellow ball in the sky, and how they’re having to mist the bed with water in order to get it cool enough to...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Clever System of Secure Distributed Computation
This is really clever: Enigma's technique -- what cryptographers call "secure multiparty computation" -- works by mimicking a few of the features of bitcoin's decentralized network architecture: It...
View ArticleLWN.net: Friday’s security updates
Arch Linux has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities) and wesnoth (information leak). Debian has updated stunnel4 (authentication bypass). Debian-LTS has updated libxml2 (multiple vulnerabilities)...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Details of the NSA’s X-KEYSCORE
The Intercept has published a highly detailed two-part article on how the NSA's X-KEYSCORE works, including a huge number of related documents from the Snowden archive. So much to digest. Please post...
View ArticleBackblaze Blog | The Life of a Cloud Backup Company: Happy 4th of July!
Happy July 4th to everyone in the USA. Backblaze is celebrating the 4th of July with a blaze of our own! Have a safe and wonderful Independence Day! The post Happy 4th of July! appeared first on...
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Rabbit Beating Up Snake
It's the Internet, which means there must be cute animal videos on this blog. But this one is different. Watch a mother rabbit beat up a snake to protect her children. It's impressive the way she keeps...
View ArticleTorrentFreak: FBI Wants Pirate Bay Logs to Expose Copyright Trolls
Over the past months two Pirate Bay co-founders have been questioned by Swedish police, acting on behalf of the FBI. The officers were looking for information on Pirate Bay backups and logs as part of...
View ArticleDarknet - The Darkside: AddressSanitizer – A Fast Memory Error Detector
AddressSanitizer (aka ASan) is a very fast memory error detector for C/C++, Tthe average slowdown of the instrumented program is ~2x. The tool works on x86 Linux and Mac, and ARM Android....
View ArticleSchneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in the Gulf of...
Long article about a very lucrative squid-fishing industry that involves bribing the Cambodian Navy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...
View ArticleLWN.net: Firefox 39 released
Firefox 39 has been released for both desktop and mobile systems. The new features include a social sharing tool for the Firefox Hello video chat subsystem. It is designed to make it easier to share...
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