As it happens, Yahoo has been scanning all inbound email on behalf of the US Government. Reuters news broke the story yesterday. “Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The […]
Of Interest
Hub Nation: The Scandal of Money
I just finished reading Dan Lyon’s “Disrupted”. I devoured it in a little over 2 days and took frequent breaks to email various friends and colleagues (many of them tech CEOs of non-unicorns, go figure) that they had to read it. The story of Lyon’s tumultuous ride at Hubspot, a tech unicorn which has never […]
easyDNS to refuse queries from rogue states, illegal immigrants, and leftists
Speaking at a company rally in Forest Hill, Louisiana, easyDNS strongman Mark (“The Mark”) Jeftovic decried an epidemic of political correctness destroying the DNS protocol.
The US Government has no credibility to compel anybody to weaken security
This is my belated obligatory post about the entire “Apple vs the FBI” episode and whether it should help decrypt the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. People have commented that I should write something, and I’ve been reluctant in case I go off in full-rant-mode. I wrote the entire post and then after I re-read it […]
You may only be as secure as your weakest vendor
The scale and immensity of hacking incidents worldwide is on the upswing. It seems everybody is getting hacked at one point or another. Even easyDNS had a low level data breach a few months ago (email addresses were exfiltrated from a server housing a third-party marketing CMS). Some incidents are worse than others, and the severity […]
Yahoo testing blocking your email access if you use ad-blockers
Last week the news broke that Yahoo had begun testing a new initiative where users with ad-blocking enabled would be denied access to their email. I’ve been in this business a long time, we’ve been through countless DDoS attacks, and a lot of “red-alert” situations. From those experiences I can tell you that users are […]
