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Today March 14 (3.14) is time to celebrate Pi Day. For celebration ideas check out my Pi day postings from 2015 and 2013. And also Birthday Celebrations The Pi Way.     →

What ISPs Can See: Clarifying the technical landscape of the broadband privacy debate https://www.teamupturn.com/reports/2016/what-isps-can-see Truly pervasive encryption on the Internet is still a long way off. The fraction of total Internet traffic that’s encrypted is a poor proxy for the privacy interests of a typical user. Even with HTTPS, ISPs can still see the domains →

The idea for this posting started when I read New approaches to dominate in embedded development article. Then I found some ther related articles and here is the result: long article. Embedded devices, or embedded systems, are specialized computer systems that constitute components of larger electromechanical systems with which they interface. The advent of low-cost →

Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security. https://backchannel.com/why-are-we-fighting-the-crypto-wars-again-b5310a423295#.m4ysbpcv1 Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40505.html Another story on bad IoT security… Posted from WordPress for Android →

Blame It On The Voices: Adding “-ing” to the end of a movie title changes the plot http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2016/01/adding-ing-to-end-of-movie-title.html?m=1   →

Hackers have figured out how easy it is to take down a hospital article tells that when 18 USB sticks were dropped into a hospital, within 24 hours, at least one of them had been plugged into a nurse’s station, infecting it with malware. Hackers were soon able to get into the hospital’s network and take →

Signs You’re Burning Out (And How To Stop It): Even the best jobs can lead to burnout. The harder you work and the more motivated you are to succeed, the easier it is to get in over your head. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/signs-youre-burning-out-how-stop-dr-travis-bradberry Posted from WordPress for Android →

The way you move your mouse is unique, like fingerprints, and can be used by dark forces to track you on supposedly anonymous and secure networks like Tor, according to a Barcelona researcher. Jose Carlos Norte discovered the snooping method in recent weeks: Using Javascript, a hacker could identify a user based on the movements in →

The German TV show NEO MAGAZIN Royale asked their viewers to send in old hardware. These old floppy drives, scanners, typewriters, hard drives, modems, and speakers would be turned into instruments. The German hip hop group, Fettes Brot performed Die da on these instruments. Fettes Brot feat. Geekchester – Jein | NEO MAGAZIN ROYALE mit →