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If you feel pessimistic about tech, if you feel that “tech” is a social negative, is addictive, a risk, is turning our (or childrens’) brains to mush — this podcast is amazing and may bring you fresh perspective:
From “Build For Tomorrow” (formerly: “Pessimist’s Archive”) — I’ve not yet heard a dull episode, and so far it covers the social context of technology more objectively than anything I’ve heard elsewhere in the media: Link: https://www.jasonfeifer.com/pessimists-archive/episode/f27ab2c1/what-new-tech-will-we-fear-next
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The @NSA gets some stuff right about #DNSoverHTTPS, but it also is astonishingly “tone deaf” about some aspects of enterprise #security, so also gets some stuff dead wrong… #DoH
A long time ago I used to do network security – hardening, pentesting, that sort of thing – for Sun Microsystems, and one of our key challenges was “nomadics“, that in a company of 40-thousand people, a large contingent would be equipped with PCMCIA modems and chunky laptops, remotely logging into Sun’s intranet from hotels…
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From January; alas, poor #Bugtraq…
The Wikipedia page needs updating. Source: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2021/Jan/0 The SecurityFocus assets, including the BugTraq mailing list, has a long history of providing timely information on the latest vulnerabilities, security vendor announcements, and exploit information. We are forever grateful to those who created, maintained, and contributed to the archive – many of us have connected and learned…
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#CarringtonEvent — it turns out that a global #Pandemic is not the only kind of once-a-century-ish / eventually-inevitable event that might reshape the world. Take a look at this:
The Carrington Event[1] was a powerful geomagnetic storm on September 1–2, 1859, during solar cycle 10 (1855–1867). A solar coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth’s magnetosphere and induced the largest geomagnetic storm on record. The associated “white light flare” in the solar photosphere was observed and recorded by British astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson. The storm caused strong auroral displays and wrought havoc with telegraph systems. The now-standard unique IAU identifier for this flare is…
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No Port 53, Who Dis? A Year of DNS over HTTPS over Tor — final version (I hope) #DNSoverHTTPS #DNS #DoH #Tor #NDSS21 @torproject
Paper direct link Presentation direct link
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Tom is not really helping, but it’s funny
A lot of people are missing some of the crucial details in the Bloomberg story, so I thought I’d try to clarify some of the technical aspects which might not come out in the high-level report. ?? The chip was “encrypted on the motherboard”. This is a highly technical way of saying that it was…
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In Myanmar, China is helping the illegitamite military government to install a great firewall like on the mainland. How can I get around this? # some disturbing comments in this thread
In Myanmar China is helping the illegitamite military government to install a great firewall like on the mainland. How can I get around this? by intechsupport Quote> Not just the Great Firewall level firewall! Look at this cybersecurity law draft. It’s entirely in Burmese but I’ll translate it for you. In page 21, it says…
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Anybody who wants to know why there are such vitriolic and abusive threads on social media sometimes, simply needs to watch this video
Or this: Or this: People, too, can behave differently and disproportionately when artificially separated.
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If governments and academics are “concerned” about big platforms, they will be terrified of small, individual, distributed ones which will come in their wake.
I’m almost inclined to channel @doctorow and write a short piece of fiction whereby aggressive regulation leads to a viable decentralized web populated by old school tools like irc (with better ui), only difference is everyone is using the tools including the racists. Then what? — Gabriella "Biella" Coleman (@BiellaColeman) February 10, 2021